We are witnessing a very sad moment in American history.
The President of the United States is aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy.
Here are my thoughts:
Six years ago, we told the UN:
- Hezbollah was digging tunnels to invade Israel, kidnap & attack Israeli civilians, capture Israeli territory
- Embedding missiles in civilian homes is war crime under Geneva Conventions
- UNIFIL must enforce Resolution 1701
They. Did. Nothing.
Incredible! Thousands of people at Hyde Park to commemorate a year since the horrific terror attack on October 7th.
A peaceful, dignified gathering. No faces covered, no hate, no support for terrorists, and no calls for genocide.
This is how it's done.
Dictator and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his first sermon yesterday in nearly 5 years.
He stated:
“God willing, we will destroy Israel.”
Western policy makers should note that he didn’t say “God willing, we will have a two-state solution”
Gaza is a shithole because of the people that live there
You don’t like such unvarnished truth but this is reality
A jihad culture is a shithole culture
A jihad culture doesn’t build nice things
A jihad culture doesn’t do nice things
A jihad culture doesn’t get on with its neighbours
A jihadist culture wages jihad
That’s what it does
It wages jihad and creates shitholes
It’s also a cowardly, dishonest, shithole culture
Because it wages jihad and then cries victim when people stand up to their racist, muslim supremacist bullshit
@leeharris I have been so shocked and scared of the BBC since Oct 7th. They have so consistently sided with antisemitism and Hamas and so worryingly lost any moral clarity. My whole life I defended them for inpartiality. No more. Deleted their apps for good. #bbc@BBCWorld
Julia HB is 100% correct. I personally believe the #bbcnews is institutionally antisemitic - every story they cover from the Middle East is based on a principle of Israel hate. The BBC is now a source of national shame. #DefundTheBBC
From Gary Lineker’s factless musings to the BBC worker who called Jews ‘Nazi apartheid parasites’. From BBC Arabic having to correct mistakes every 48 hours to headlining stories on OCTOBER 7 as ‘Israeli revenge attacks’: a new report lays out why many Jewish people believe not only that the BBC is institutionally antisemitic but that it is creating antisemitism in this country and around the world.
This report details how:
• On the day of the 7 October massacre, while the rest of Britain’s media were detailing the brutality of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the BBC led its coverage with a headline about “Israeli revenge attacks”.
• The BBC broadcast interviews in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity with Hamas apologists who used their platform to make comments which the BBC was
forced to admit were “offensive”.
• The BBC refused to call Hamas “terrorists” because it would be seen as “taking
sides”, only to back down following days of criticism.
• The BBC reported that an ‘Israeli strike’ killed ‘hundreds’ at the Al-Ahli hospital: thereby repeating, legitimising and reinforcing entirely false claims that directly
caused unrest in some European and Middle Eastern countries, including serious arson attacks upon synagogues.
• The BBC failed to remove articles suggesting the same hospital blast may have been caused by the Israeli military, even after the BBC admitted it got its reporting
wrong.
• The BBC incorrectly reported that Israeli soldiers had been “targeting” medical
teams and Arab speakers as they hunted Hamas terrorists in a hospital, when
instead they actually had brought medical teams and Arab speakers with them to
help the patients during the military operation.
• A senior BBC executive admitted inaccuracies had “real world consequences” for
British Jews but were inevitable because of the “fog of war”.
• The BBC aired an edited interview with French President Macron which was
highly critical of Israel only for French diplomats to insist it was not a fair
representation of his views.
• The BBC published an article that wrongly claimed a UN report had warned “half
of Gaza’s population is starving” and peddled a Hamas propaganda line that Gaza
had become a “polio epidemic zone”.
• The BBC failed to investigate claims babies were beheaded by Hamas terrorists
in a kibbutz massacre on 7 October – despite the issue dominating other news
outlets’ coverage and British political debate for days.
• The BBC was forced to correct an article that described Iran’s bombardment of
300 rockets fired into Israel as “dozens” of “objects”.
• The BBC took no action against five BBC Arabic reporters placed under
investigation for offensive social media posts in the wake of the 7 October massacre.
• At the height of the conflict, BBC Arabic was forced to correct articles on average every 48 hours, including copy that referred to Hamas as the “resistance”.
• BBC Arabic platformed one guest who had previously referred to the 7 October massacre as a “heroic military miracle” and another who described Hamas atrocities against innocent Israelis as “necessary”.
• BBC Arabic was forced to purge articles from its website including one that asked whether the Kfar Aza kibbutz atrocities really happened.
• BBC Arabic failed to moderate antisemitic and offensive comments on its YouTube channel and encouraged a discussion about whether the killing of a 79-year-old Israeli woman was “terrorism” or “resistance”.
• The BBC failed to remove graphs from its website that purported to show that 70 per cent of Gazan fatalities were women and children – after those figures were
shown to be inaccurate.
• The BBC routinely quoted figures produced by the Hamas Health Ministry without highlighting it as a terrorist-run organisation, and routinely failed to stress in
reporting that Hamas fatality figures are unverifiable and include thousands of Hamas terrorists.
From Gary Lineker’s factless musings to the BBC worker who called Jews ‘Nazi apartheid parasites’. From BBC Arabic having to correct mistakes every 48 hours to headlining stories on OCTOBER 7 as ‘Israeli revenge attacks’: a new report lays out why many Jewish people believe not only that the BBC is institutionally antisemitic but that it is creating antisemitism in this country and around the world.
This report details how:
• On the day of the 7 October massacre, while the rest of Britain’s media were detailing the brutality of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the BBC led its coverage with a headline about “Israeli revenge attacks”.
• The BBC broadcast interviews in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity with Hamas apologists who used their platform to make comments which the BBC was
forced to admit were “offensive”.
• The BBC refused to call Hamas “terrorists” because it would be seen as “taking
sides”, only to back down following days of criticism.
• The BBC reported that an ‘Israeli strike’ killed ‘hundreds’ at the Al-Ahli hospital: thereby repeating, legitimising and reinforcing entirely false claims that directly
caused unrest in some European and Middle Eastern countries, including serious arson attacks upon synagogues.
• The BBC failed to remove articles suggesting the same hospital blast may have been caused by the Israeli military, even after the BBC admitted it got its reporting
wrong.
• The BBC incorrectly reported that Israeli soldiers had been “targeting” medical
teams and Arab speakers as they hunted Hamas terrorists in a hospital, when
instead they actually had brought medical teams and Arab speakers with them to
help the patients during the military operation.
• A senior BBC executive admitted inaccuracies had “real world consequences” for
British Jews but were inevitable because of the “fog of war”.
• The BBC aired an edited interview with French President Macron which was
highly critical of Israel only for French diplomats to insist it was not a fair
representation of his views.
• The BBC published an article that wrongly claimed a UN report had warned “half
of Gaza’s population is starving” and peddled a Hamas propaganda line that Gaza
had become a “polio epidemic zone”.
• The BBC failed to investigate claims babies were beheaded by Hamas terrorists
in a kibbutz massacre on 7 October – despite the issue dominating other news
outlets’ coverage and British political debate for days.
• The BBC was forced to correct an article that described Iran’s bombardment of
300 rockets fired into Israel as “dozens” of “objects”.
• The BBC took no action against five BBC Arabic reporters placed under
investigation for offensive social media posts in the wake of the 7 October massacre.
• At the height of the conflict, BBC Arabic was forced to correct articles on average every 48 hours, including copy that referred to Hamas as the “resistance”.
• BBC Arabic platformed one guest who had previously referred to the 7 October massacre as a “heroic military miracle” and another who described Hamas atrocities against innocent Israelis as “necessary”.
• BBC Arabic was forced to purge articles from its website including one that asked whether the Kfar Aza kibbutz atrocities really happened.
• BBC Arabic failed to moderate antisemitic and offensive comments on its YouTube channel and encouraged a discussion about whether the killing of a 79-year-old Israeli woman was “terrorism” or “resistance”.
• The BBC failed to remove graphs from its website that purported to show that 70 per cent of Gazan fatalities were women and children – after those figures were
shown to be inaccurate.
• The BBC routinely quoted figures produced by the Hamas Health Ministry without highlighting it as a terrorist-run organisation, and routinely failed to stress in
reporting that Hamas fatality figures are unverifiable and include thousands of Hamas terrorists.
As a Lebanese, this is one of the happiest days in Lebanon’s history.
As a Middle Easterner, this is one of the most transformative days for the Middle East.
As a human being who holds peace before my eyes, this is the most important day for our region.
Nasrallah and Hezbollah have terrorized the Lebanese people since the 1980s. He is responsible for the continuous downfall of Lebanon’s economy and sovereignty. He bears responsibility for countless assassinations of fine Lebanese men and women, solely for opposing his grip on our precious country.
Nasrallah is also responsible for the slaughter of thousands of Syrian children, women, and men, as well as for other atrocities across the Middle East.
Every Lebanese and every decent human being should feel joy at the downfall of one of the greatest evils of our time.
Now, we have a real chance to look forward, ensuring Hezbollah’s weapons are handed over to the Lebanese authorities, and sitting down with Israelis and the West for genuine negotiations on normalization and peace between our countries—Israel and Lebanon.