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[NewsCord @newscord_org]

It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.

The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”

As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”

We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:

- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024

On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.

That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.

We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.

We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".

Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.

These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: https://t.co/qEYyFnMyCV

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today’s Supreme Court hearing on Palestine Action is a huge moment for free speech and the right to protest in this country.

The government has debased itself by upholding this absurd and draconian ban.

Opposing genocide is not a crime. De-proscribe Palestine Action now.

[Simply Observing @SimpleObserver7]

@graham_jaggard What a bird 🐦

[Wor Flags 🏴🏳 @worflags]

This is Newcastle 0.2 not 2.0…

Pathetic.

[Trek Central @TheTrekCentral]

💖 Actress Marina Sirtis Posts Heartbreaking Tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart! 💔

Posting on Instagram, she said: "He's gone. My friend. My Captain. Me fellow football fan"

Sirtis and Stewart worked alongside each other across #StarTrek: The Next Generation, 4 movies and returned for #StarTrekPicard 🖖

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Vinnie Jones and Sir Patrick Stewart recreating Jones’ infamous football photo on the set of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

[Simply Observing @SimpleObserver7]

@bnwbanter Got to remember that if we had not sold Bruno, we would not have been able to retain Willock and Murphy in addition to signing Bamba so he actually did us a favour. 3 for 1. Bargain. Hero actually. Sacrificed himself for the greater good.

[Harry Kane @HKane]

Wow. 🏆

[Simply Observing @SimpleObserver7]

@numb9rnine @Noahwilliams_77 Rate they're going there biggest rivals will be Oldham before long.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Basic education piece:

Not all Jewish people are Zionists.

Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.

The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.

The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.

Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue.

My latest for Double Down Newswatch.
https://t.co/Dhy7QRCvW9

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

🚨 THIS SHOULD ALARM EVERY PARENT IN ENGLAND.

Tomorrow, the Government is expected to receive 27 recommendations on tackling antisemitism in schools and colleges.

Among the reported proposals:

• Schools to reconsider political symbols, including Palestinian watermelon badges.

• New guidance on teaching the Israel–Palestine conflict, emphasising political impartiality.

• Greater scrutiny of how teachers discuss geopolitical issues.

• Encouraging schools to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, including its controversial examples relating to Israel.

Let me be absolutely clear...

Antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists. Jewish children deserve to feel safe in every school.

But this is not about antisemitism.

IT IS ABOUT BRAINWASHING OUR CHILDREN TO COVER UP OUR GOVERNMENT'S COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES.

What the hell are we doing when expressing solidarity with Palestinians becomes something schools are encouraged to challenge?

When teachers are expected to demonstrate political impartiality, who decides what constitutes impartiality?

And since when should the documented genocide and displacement of Palestinians be treated as simply another political opinion?

Human rights ARE NOT a partisan position.

International law IS NOT a matter of political preference.

The slaughtering of civilians IS NOT something we should teach children to be indifferent about.

Education is being hijacked for political conditioning rather than encouraging children to think critically.

If we reach a point where children are discouraged from showing solidarity with victims of oppression, where teachers fear telling the truth about atrocities, and where political impartiality becomes a euphemism for silence, then we have crossed a truly terrifying, line.

Education should teach children to recognise injustice, question authority and stand up for humanity, not to condition them to look the other way when those in power are responsible.

And if our Government is more concerned about children wearing Palestinian badges than the suffering those badges represent, then we need to ask ourselves a very serious question:

Are we educating the next generation to prevent the atrocities of history from happening again, or teaching them how to accept them when they do?

#GazaGenocide

@andyburnham @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @KemiBadenoch @owenjonesjourno @Heccles94 @zarahsultana

[Simply Observing @SimpleObserver7]

@CharIieBennett Our stats are aweful across the board. We have not looked convincing all season, we are constantly overrun in midfield, we lack quality and experience all over the pitch and we got humped by a poor Coventry side. We are right in the s**t.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

President Zelensky: “When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers [in Russia], it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations.

Because there were fewer bots. And it’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from – if they disappeared when Yandex went offline. This proves, again and again, that Europe is not the source of the problems.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We currently see no signs from Russia that it wants to end the war. We see no basic steps toward de-escalation. Everyone is talking about diesel and forgetting about grain. In a month or two, everyone will start talking about an agricultural crisis. There won’t be enough food for countries across Africa, some Asian countries, and the Middle East, because we export millions of tons of grain to these very markets. And now Russia is blocking the sea.

The United States isn’t feeling the effects of this, which is why the focus is only on energy. This is another challenge. It’s hunger. And it can affect many countries. And we need to think about everything and everyone, because we all live on this planet. We can prevent many different crises before they even begin and avert the challenges they bring.

From remarks at the Warsaw Security Forum. (2)

[Bulvar Medya @Bulvarpress]

İzlanda’da yaban hayatını görüntüleyen bir adam, kariyerinin unutulmaz anlarından birini yaşadı. Kayaların arasına gizlenerek beklediği sırada dev bir ren geyiği sürüsü metrelerce yakınına kadar geldi; o anları tek çekimde kaydetti.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

No, this isn't the new Taylor Swift album cover. I've cleaned-up this remarkable colour photo, taken 113 years ago in August 1913, a year before the First World War. It is a portrait of 16-year-old Christina Bevan at Durdle Door in Lulworth, Dorset. It was taken by Lt-Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.
This was one of the first Autochromes I cleaned up for Twitter and I share it again with you because it is such a beautiful image 😍

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

In her conference speech, Kemi Badenoch is expected to say the Tories are “battling for the soul of the nation”, without mentioning it was the Conservative Govt SHE was part of that hollowed out that soul with 14 years of austerity & economic mismanagement.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Exclusive: Britain launched a ‘world wide lobbying exercise’ to overturn a landmark United Nations (UN) resolution which recognised Zionism as racism, Declassified can reveal.

The information is in a private exchange between UK foreign secretary Douglas Hurd and pro-Israel lobbyist Sir Trevor Chinn in 1992.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/XXrBAHtw6G

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

UK sanctions on Israel result in no extra arms export suspensions.

Ed Miliband's ‘double lock’ on arms exports to Israel has made no immediate impact on the flow of weaponry to Tel Aviv.

https://t.co/TGLZaQVKWo