BBC will will never call anyone on Left a ‘terrorist’.. even Hamas baby-killers - Comment.
When veteran BBC Middle East Correspondent Jeremy Bowen wrote this week about the horrendous massacre in the Kfar Aza kibbutz – in which whole families, including babies, were mercilessly slain using gut-wrenching methods – the headline on the BBC website was simply “Inside Kfar Aza where Hamas militants killed families in their homes”.
There was only one mention of terrorism - not as a description of the event but a quote from a soldier interviewed by Mr Bowen, who said there were “terrorists everywhere” when the attack was launched.
All week, since the Hamas slaughter was unleashed, the BBC has been pig-headedly maintaining that the word is not being used by the Corporation itself to describe the massacre of at least 1,000 Israelis by Hamas because – according to the words of John Simpson, the BBC World Affairs correspondent – it would mean the BBC was taking sides and not being objective in its reporting, and would breach Editorial Guidelines on impartiality.
A whole phalanx of BBC luminaries such as BBC Radio 4 Today presenters Mishal Husain and Nick Robinson are up on their high horses reinforcing this point. Express.
