electronicintifada: Amna SaleemThe American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up his post at the BBCand, within two weeks, had installed a line-up of hardline Zionists at the top of the world’s largest publicly-funded news organization.
Tony Hall, whose role as director-general commenced on 2 April, is a former BBC director of news and can boast a total of nearly 30 years working at the corporation. As such, he is well-versed in the BBC’s values — he knows what the BBC wants.
Soon after his own appointment, Hall named James Harding as the BBC’s new director of news and current affairs. Until December, Harding was editor of The Times, an avowedly right-wing, pro-Israeli paper owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International group.
In 2011, Harding spoke at a media event organized by The Jewish Chronicle, telling his audience: “I am pro-Israel. I believe in the State of Israel. I would have had a real problem if I had been coming to a paper [The Times] with a history of being anti-Israel. And, of course, Rupert Murdoch is pro-Israel.”
Categories: Anti-Islam Attitude, Anti-Islam Campaign, Arab World, BBC, Europe
Facts you will not learn from the BBC
PermalinkSubmitted by Peter Reilly (not verified) on Fri, 04/26/2013 – 11:19
1. Israel abuses Palestinian human rights on a daily basis and this has gone on for decades. These are well documented in reports by the UN, EU and umpteen NGOs. So numerous are these violations, PCRC publishes a bulky weekly update of them, and has done so for years. You can read the latest here:
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti…
2. Israel consistently breaks international law. It has ignored over 85 UN Resolutions. See: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/27/rogue-state-israeli-viola…
3. Israel discriminates against its non- Jewish citizens, making it a racist state. See the evidence from a Jewish organisation source: http://mondoweiss.net/2013/03/comprehensive-discriminatory-legislation.html