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August 01, 2005
...but now it gets something very wrong.

The BBC News website is now actively propagandising for the jihad against Israel. It has taken upon itself to present a pictorial representation of ‘refugee life’ in Balata camp on the West Bank. Picture eight is captioned:

‘Posters celebrating militant leaders line the walls of the camp’.

The pictures are taken from an exhibition being mounted at a London gallery. What the BBC does not give us is the caption that the gallery itself has appended to this particular photograph:

‘The shrine in remembrance of our hero Khalil Marshoud, who was assassinated by an Israeli missile on June 14th 2004’.

Khalil Marshoud was a leader of the terrorist organization, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and was responsible for more than twenty terror attacks against Israel:

‘Among other terror activities, Marshoud is suspected of involvement in dispatching a suicide bomber into Jerusalem at the beginning of June (an attack which was thwarted by security forces) and the planned dispatch of a car bomb with some 100 kilograms of explosives at the beginning of May.’

So the BBC has presented as some kind of hero a man who turns his own people into human bombs in order to kill Jews.

The gallery which has been exhibiting these pictures was — whatever it may have thought it was doing – propagandising this death cult. As its website declared:

‘The photographs are invaluable because through the children's simple and honest storytelling, they provide us with a wider understanding of the impact of war. At the same time, they depict how children living in the centre of a conflict and in a camp which is about one quarter of a square kilometre have the same preoccupations and desires as children in any other place in the world.’

But of course these children do not have ‘the same preoccupations and desires as children in any other place in the world’. They are the victims of systematic brainwashing into a cult of hatred and death, which encourages them to turn themselves into human bombs to kill as many Jews as possible. This exhibition, which appears to make no mention of this terrible process, thus sanitises it.

That’s bad enough. But how can the BBC allow itself to do the same thing? And why should it give space to pictures from an exhibition in the first place? Who are the News website editors responsible for this? Are the BBC governors still alive? And where is the wider outcry?

Posted by melanie at August 1, 2005