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Struggling to see the legitimacy of the findings here, especially given that the son was merely narrating the documentary, and the father/Hamas had no input to the contents of the script.
Owen Jones' reporting of a letter signed by BBC staff, accusing the Corporation of running PR for Israel seems particularly apt in this context:
I think we can say that there are certain people at the BBC/involved in the BBC who will do whatever it takes to make sure that the Palestinian side of this conflict is not covered.
Hamas are evil, and are the sole reason why thousands of Palestians have been killed, and continue to be killed. That is all we need to know.
What the hell is Nandy on about? “Why hasn’t anyone been fired?”. It’s hardly the crime of the century. It seems to effectively come down to the failure to make clear the link between the child narrator and his Hamas father. Effectively it’s a technicality. The review found there was no deliberate intention to deceive, no influence from the father or family and no breach of impartiality. Couldn’t they just add a disclaimer to the start of the film saying that since release it’s been brought out attention that the narrator’s father has a position in the Hamas government? Job done. Resign indeed . Why are Labour continuously crap?
It’s almost as if over half the cabinet have been funded by the Israel lobby innit?
Now there’s a key point. The Beeb gets a kicking for not making clear the background of those involved in making programmes that question the treatment of Palestinians. The kicking being prompted and led by the Israeli lobby.
On the other hand the Corporation accepts a range of politicians being wheeled out to support Israel and its actions against in Gaza. Nowhere do they get asked why they don’t point out that those self same politicians are frequently signed up “Parliamentary Friends of Israel Groups” and have received significant funding from Israeli lobby groups.
His father has been made out to be a Hamas terrorist but the following article suggests he is merely a civilian official in many ways not dissimilar t to people like doctors in Gaza.
In addition, today's review said it had seen no evidence "to support the suggestion that the narrator's father or family influenced the content of the programme in any way".
It added the narrator's scripted contribution to the programme did not constitute a breach of due impartiality.
"A group of 45 prominent Jewish journalists and members of the media, including former BBC governor Ruth Deech, addressed a letter to the broadcaster demanding the film be removed from the iPlayer.
The letter to the BBC refers to the minister, Dr Ayman Alyazouri, as a "terrorist leader".
Numerous reports in the British press have described him as a "terrorist leader", "Hamas leader" and "senior member of Hamas". But who is Alyazouri really?"
Middle East Eye has found that Ayman Alyazouri, the deputy agriculture minister in Gaza, appears to be a technocrat with a scientific rather than political background.
Ministers, bureaucrats and civil servants in Gaza are appointed by Hamas, while in the West Bank they are appointed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Alyazouri's LinkedIn profile and CV reveal previously unreported details about his background.
Between 1995 and 2003, Alyazouri taught chemistry in a high school in Dubai. According to his CV, he also studied at British universities, gaining a masters degree in analytical chemistry from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2004.
Alyazouri then did a PhD in environmental analytical chemistry at the University of Huddersfield, which he completed in 2010.
During that time, between 2003 and 2011, he was a specialist in the United Arab Emirates' ministry of education, designing textbooks and editing the science curriculum.
In 2011 he became an assistant deputy minister in Gaza's ministry of education.
His current role as deputy minister of agriculture, which he began in July 2021, involves supervising and supporting "agricultural activities" in Gaza, "especially in the field of crops cultivation, livestock and fishing", according to his LinkedIn profile."
His father has been made out to be a Hamas terrorist but the following article suggests he is merely a civilian official in many ways not dissimilar t to people like doctors in Gaza.
In addition, today's review said it had seen no evidence "to support the suggestion that the narrator's father or family influenced the content of the programme in any way".
It added the narrator's scripted contribution to the programme did not constitute a breach of due impartiality.
"A group of 45 prominent Jewish journalists and members of the media, including former BBC governor Ruth Deech, addressed a letter to the broadcaster demanding the film be removed from the iPlayer.
The letter to the BBC refers to the minister, Dr Ayman Alyazouri, as a "terrorist leader".
Numerous reports in the British press have described him as a "terrorist leader", "Hamas leader" and "senior member of Hamas". But who is Alyazouri really?"
Middle East Eye has found that Ayman Alyazouri, the deputy agriculture minister in Gaza, appears to be a technocrat with a scientific rather than political background.
Ministers, bureaucrats and civil servants in Gaza are appointed by Hamas, while in the West Bank they are appointed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Alyazouri's LinkedIn profile and CV reveal previously unreported details about his background.
Between 1995 and 2003, Alyazouri taught chemistry in a high school in Dubai. According to his CV, he also studied at British universities, gaining a masters degree in analytical chemistry from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2004.
Alyazouri then did a PhD in environmental analytical chemistry at the University of Huddersfield, which he completed in 2010.
During that time, between 2003 and 2011, he was a specialist in the United Arab Emirates' ministry of education, designing textbooks and editing the science curriculum.
In 2011 he became an assistant deputy minister in Gaza's ministry of education.
His current role as deputy minister of agriculture, which he began in July 2021, involves supervising and supporting "agricultural activities" in Gaza, "especially in the field of crops cultivation, livestock and fishing", according to his LinkedIn profile."
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Yeah right, but only when he wasn't eating babies, raping and pillaging. What a sh1t show this last few years has been set up on foundations of faux antisemitic claims. Shame on anybody that played their part in that.
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
That's an ad hominem. I'm not a fan either but you need to look at the content.
Do you refute the content of his piece? He would seem to be right, AIs being trained on BBC content (specifically Grok) have noticed a bias in BBC reporting.
Now there’s a key point. The Beeb gets a kicking for not making clear the background of those involved in making programmes that question the treatment of Palestinians. The kicking being prompted and led by the Israeli lobby.
On the other hand the Corporation accepts a range of politicians being wheeled out to support Israel and its actions against in Gaza. Nowhere do they get asked why they don’t point out that those self same politicians are frequently signed up “Parliamentary Friends of Israel Groups” and have received significant funding from Israeli lobby groups.
The report was commissioned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and led by Penny Mordaunt and Lord Mann (both long established champions of Israel and recipients of funding). They express concern about an increase in perceived antisemitism and recommend training and education to counter it.
Surprise surprise they make no mention of the impact that Israel’s actions in Gaza are having on public opinion.
The political class are so out of touch with the British public. There must surely be a reckoning.
Yeah right, but only when he wasn't eating babies, raping and pillaging. What a sh1t show this last few years has been set up on foundations of faux antisemitic claims. Shame on anybody that played their part in that.
The report was commissioned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and led by Penny Mordaunt and Lord Mann (both long established champions of Israel and recipients of funding). They express concern about an increase in perceived antisemitism and recommend training and education to counter it.
Surprise surprise they make no mention of the impact that Israel’s actions in Gaza are having on public opinion.
The political class are so out of touch with the British public. There must surely be a reckoning.
[Post edited 15 Jul 9:34]
The irony is that Jewish members of the Labour Party were asked to undergo antisemitism training. And many were expelled or investigated for antisemitism.
I know Jenny Manson who co-founded Jewish Voice for Labour. A nicer person you couldn't hope to meet. But she is a Jew who is passionately opposed to the policies of Israel.
"I have been gripped by the most terrible rage and misery,” said Jenny Manson, a retired civil servant and JVL co-chair who received a “notice of investigation” from the party in August following a TV appearance during which she stated that claims of antisemitism in Labour had been exaggerated. “My mother, who was a survivor of the pogroms, would say, ‘Are these people mad?’ It’s utterly mad, for an old Jew to be called an antisemite,” she said.
According to Mike Cushman, a JVL officer, as of January 2022 the Labour Party had initiated 55 internal investigations of Jews on the grounds of antisemitism allegations, and 43 members of the JVL had been sanctioned. One JVL member, Diana Neslen, an 82-year-old Jewish South African émigré and former anti-apartheid activist, has been investigated three times; on Monday, the party dropped its case against her after she threatened to sue Labour for discriminating against her on the basis of her anti-Zionist beliefs. Two JVL members—Mike Howard, 72, a 40-year Labour member, and Riva Joffe, a South African-born anti-racist activist in her 80s—have died while under investigation for alleged antisemitism, Cushman said, “before they could clear their names.”
For Jewish anti-Zionists like the members of JVL, it is not only politically frustrating but personally infuriating to find themselves designated as antisemites, their Jewishness impugned by the political party to which they once belonged. The British Jewish establishment has helped foster the notion within Labour, Cushman said, “that unless you are a Jew that complies with their stereotype of what a Jew should be, i.e., a supporter of Israel, then they [can] define you as not a Jew.”
His father has been made out to be a Hamas terrorist but the following article suggests he is merely a civilian official in many ways not dissimilar t to people like doctors in Gaza.
In addition, today's review said it had seen no evidence "to support the suggestion that the narrator's father or family influenced the content of the programme in any way".
It added the narrator's scripted contribution to the programme did not constitute a breach of due impartiality.
"A group of 45 prominent Jewish journalists and members of the media, including former BBC governor Ruth Deech, addressed a letter to the broadcaster demanding the film be removed from the iPlayer.
The letter to the BBC refers to the minister, Dr Ayman Alyazouri, as a "terrorist leader".
Numerous reports in the British press have described him as a "terrorist leader", "Hamas leader" and "senior member of Hamas". But who is Alyazouri really?"
Middle East Eye has found that Ayman Alyazouri, the deputy agriculture minister in Gaza, appears to be a technocrat with a scientific rather than political background.
Ministers, bureaucrats and civil servants in Gaza are appointed by Hamas, while in the West Bank they are appointed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Alyazouri's LinkedIn profile and CV reveal previously unreported details about his background.
Between 1995 and 2003, Alyazouri taught chemistry in a high school in Dubai. According to his CV, he also studied at British universities, gaining a masters degree in analytical chemistry from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2004.
Alyazouri then did a PhD in environmental analytical chemistry at the University of Huddersfield, which he completed in 2010.
During that time, between 2003 and 2011, he was a specialist in the United Arab Emirates' ministry of education, designing textbooks and editing the science curriculum.
In 2011 he became an assistant deputy minister in Gaza's ministry of education.
His current role as deputy minister of agriculture, which he began in July 2021, involves supervising and supporting "agricultural activities" in Gaza, "especially in the field of crops cultivation, livestock and fishing", according to his LinkedIn profile."
[Post edited 14 Jul 20:38]
The whole of the banned video is available on Youtube.
Astonishingly, given all the subsequent fuss (including misleading claims about the father and the finding that the BBC didn't know the father's background), the opening credits state the following.
"The narrator of this film is 13 year old Abdullah.
His father has worked as a deputy agriculture minister for the Hamas-run government in Gaza.
The production team had full editorial control over filming with Abdullah."
And more Palestinian children are murdered every day. Meanwhile the BBC and the Labour government spend 100 times longer focusing on this programme. Disgusting state of affairs. Israeli govt is guilty of crimes against humanity
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. Why are Labour continuously crap? 
