Reviewing three BBC reports on the US statement on ‘settlements’ – part two
BBC reporting and analysis dovetails perfectly with PLO narrative.
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Reviewing three BBC reports on the US statement on ‘settlements’ – part one
The BBC describes a US ‘position’ dating from three years ago as being “four-decades-old”.
Guardian falsely asserts 40 year US position that settlements are “illegal”
Contrary to the Guardian’s claim that the new US declaration rejects the US legal position on the issue since 1978, the 1978 US State Department Hansell Memorandum they’re referring to, which maintained that settlements are illegal, was not the basis of 40 years of U.S. policy, a time period which includes Ronald Reagan’s policy which held that the settlements are not illegal.
BBC News ‘contextualises’ terror attack with ‘settlements’ and ‘international law’
All four versions of the report also closed with the BBC’s standard but partial mantra on ‘settlements’ and ‘international law’ despite the fact that it has nothing to do with the story ostensibly being reported.
BBC News ‘contextualises’ terror attack with ‘settlements’ and ‘international law’
The BBC continues to compromise its own impartiality.
UKMW prompts Irish Examiner to correct bizarre suggestion that there are Israeli settlements in Gaza
It took several days of communication between UK Media Watch and editors at the Irish Examiner, but we finally secured a correction to a sentence in a July 23rd op-ed which bizarrely suggested that there were still Israeli settlements in Gaza.
BBC News squeezes ‘settlements’ into internal PA affairs story
Did the BBC finally produce some reporting on internal Palestinian affairs? Not really.
Three facts the Guardian didn’t reveal in their report on Jerusalem ‘settlements’.
These errors and omissions represent a pattern by Beaumont, in which he fails to distinguish between homes built within existing Jerusalem neighborhoods and West Bank settlements (which would almost certainly become part of Israel in a peace deal) and those built on land Palestinians claim as part of their future state.
Guardian falsely claims Bassem Tamimi merely opposes Israeli settlements
If the Guardian wants to encourage a fact-based, reasoned debate about the merits of Australia’s refusal to allow Tamimi into the country, the least they could do is avoid misleading readers by obfuscating the Palestinian activist’s well-documented record of intolerance and anti-Zionist extremism.
Guardian publishes error-ridden anti-Israel diatribe on “weaponised” settlements
An op-ed in the Guardian by George Browning (the former Anglican Bishop of Canberra and the President of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network) concerning the Israeli prime minister’s visit to Australia is full of significant errors and distortions.