Israel, Hamas, and the BBC

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Allison Pearson, a British journalist with The Telegraph, reflects on the survival and triumph of Yuval Raphael, Israel’s recent Eurovision runner-up, and lets loose at the BBC for its anti-Israel animus, which was manifested not just at Eurovision, but is longstanding, here: “The BBC’s biased Israel reporting is fueling anti-Semitism,” by Allison Pearson, Telegraph, June 4, 2025:

…The appalling worldwide surge in anti-Semitism since October 7 2023 – including the recent murder of a young couple who worked for the Israeli embassy in Washington DC – is undoubtedly fuelled by grossly partisan reporting. A week ago there was a racially-motivated knife attack by a group of men on three Jewish boys at Hampstead Tube station; one lad ended up in hospital. More and more British Jews, among our most successful and patriotic citizens (I have never been to a Jewish event where they didn’t sing God Save the King), are being driven out of the UK. What on earth must they think when they hear Jeremy Bowen’s palpable contempt for Israel – it’s so bad I can’t bear to listen any more. And much of other BBC reporting is barely disguised antisemitism.

They say the devil has all the best tunes and Hamas has played the media like a violin. Surely very little by the way of civilised conduct is to be expected from men who strangled the tiny Bibas brothers, baby Kfir and toddler Ariel, with their bare hands. Monsters who streamed over the border and killed nearly all the young women soldiers at the border observation station; most of their bodies so savagely mutilated in acts of sexual rage and depravity what remained of them was unfit to be shown to their grieving parents. Yet the Western media, and a large proportion of the educated liberal world, including the BBC, has been entirely captured by this extremist Islamist group which would murder in cold blood every value, every enlightened idea, every uncovered woman, every gay person, they hold dear….

Be sure to read the whole thing. Allison Pearson’s piece is one long furious j’accuse against the Hamas murderers, and against those in the Western world who exhibit a diseased sympathy for those murderers, and finally, against the BBC, for its longstanding anti-Israel animus. It clears the air. It cleanses the soul.