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The BBC having 21,000 employees (5500 journalists). Only 100 signed. From my perspective the BBC is extremely anti-Israeli but for some people this is obviousl
by YZF 1y ago
The BBC having 21,000 employees (5500 journalists). Only 100 signed.
From my perspective the BBC is extremely anti-Israeli but for some people this is obviously not good enough. They want the BBC to champion their cause. Naturally people supporting the anti-Israeli cause who only get anti-Israeli content will feel that the BBC is "pro" Israel. Nothing could be farther from the truth and Pro-Israeli media looks nothing like the BBC.
This is from 2006:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/governors_archive/impartiality.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/governors_archive/im...
"We were appointed by the Governors to assess whether the BBC's coverage of the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict meets the required standards of impartiality."
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"apart from individual lapses, sometimes of tone, language or attitude, there was little to
suggest systematic or deliberate bias; on the contrary there was evidence, in the programming
and in other ways, of a commitment to be fair, accurate and impartial;"
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"these shortcomings include:"
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"Equally in the months preceding the Palestinian elections there was little hard questioning of their leaders"
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This has been a big criticism of the BBC which is still not addressed:
"The term "terrorism" should
accordingly be used in respect of relevant events since it is the most accurate expression for
actions which involve violence against randomly selected civilians with the intention of causing
terror for ideological, including political or religious, objectives, whether perpetrated by state
or non-state agencies."
- aaomidi 1y agoThat definition of Terrorism would make Israel a terrorist state.
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- TimorousBestie 1y agoAs a point of fact, at least one “flour massacre” does exist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_Massacre Here is a news article where the IDF is quoted directly, admitting that troops opened fire on “dozens of people” at that location at that time: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-flour-massacre-idf-report-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-flour-mas...
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- ithkuil 1y agoI guess it's hard to define words. Surely terrorism has this vague meaning of doing very evil and violent things. But a picked up a random dictionary and it says: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims". I struggle to understand what political aim Israel is pursuing when using unlawful violence and intimidation. If you believe that Israel is performing a genocide what is the point of explicitly instilling more fear in the victims? Just sadism? I genuinely don't understand what advantage would Israel have in employing terror tactics against Palestinians. Is the idea that they do so in order to make them even more angry so they can justify their genocide? Is that the argument? Or am I not giving the same meaning to the word "terrorism" as you do? I don't want to argue about which side is on the right side or whatnot; I found that this kind of conversation is is highly unproductive online. But I am interested in understanding how words have changed their meaning over time. Is terrorist now just a synonym for "murdering civilians"?
- TimorousBestie 1y agoI appreciate the synchronicity between your username and words being hard to define! If only I had the spare time to pick up such a difficult conlang.
- jhanschoo 1y agoBased on that definition alone, the occupation of the West Bank and the discrimination against its original people breaks international law, is enforced by violence and intimidation against civilians, and from the unlawful settlement in it, seems to be in service of the political Zionist aim of settling the region, let alone Gaza.
- parineum 1y agoTraffic laws are enforced by violence and intimidation.
- ithkuil 1y agoIf any form of coercion and prevarication is labeled terrorism we then lack a word to describe the act of plowing through a crowd with a truck or planting a bomb in an everyday place with the intention of instilling terror in the population. Those acts are different from military occupation or apartheid or genocide. It's not a judgement of value. It's a description of a method. My point is that the word "terrorism" transcended the description of a technique for reaching certain goals, to a general blanket term used to describe "pure evil" and so people started to use it to describe very bad things even if they are not technically terrorism
- Daishiman 1y ago> "The term "terrorism" should accordingly be used in respect of relevant events since it is the most accurate expression for actions which involve violence against randomly selected civilians with the intention of causing terror for ideological, including political or religious, objectives, whether perpetrated by state or non-state agencies." I have never heard the BBC accuse the Israeli settlers of terrorism against West Bank Palestinian villages.
- YZF 1y agoIf it meets the definition then they should.