As Christopher Hitchens once said in a different context, the peculiar thing about Holocaust deniers is that their view is, in essence, that the Holocaust *didn’t* happen but it *should* have.
So if correspondents are banned then journalists can’t tell the story… ‘like Gaza’…which famously the BBC didn’t cover at all. No.
That’s the same BBC which has a whole unit of 60 people called BBC Verify which is there to check social media videos…the Iran story has been going on for four days now. Have they verified a single post?
That’s also the same BBC, btw, which transmits ‘BBC Persia’ so you’d think that BBC might have people it can talk to in Iran. You’d think…
And STILL as of 22.39 pm on NY eve, nothing, nothing, bupkis, rien, niente, nichts, niets, whatsoever on BBC News website on Iran .... it's now extremely bizarre - but hey we've always got the regime's Foreign Minister to read in the Guardian
Amnesty no longer functionally exists. It had more influence decades ago when it was a small, scrappy network of loudmouths shining light in dark places than it does today as a global NGO conglomerate with a budget in the hundreds of millions.
@sarahsackman Do something about it. We have spent two years dealing with this. You have been told time and time again. This only going to get worse, wake up.
Thank God the people who’ve been inciting the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel for two years are posting that it’s bad to stab Jews in Manchester - we’d be absolutely fucked without their intervention today