BBC and World Media Ignore Rocket Attacks on Israel, but Report on IDF Responses

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3. BBC has shown 'inexcusable bias' on Israel, says its former chairman Michael Grade

The BBC is facing a new row over its coverage of Israel, after former chairman Michael Grade accused the broadcaster of an ‘inexcusable’ bias. Lord Grade claimed that the BBC ‘directly misled’ viewers in a report about the recent wave of stabbing attacks on Israelis, by failing to show militant Palestinian groups praising the attacks.

Over the last two months, seven Israelis have been killed and dozens have been wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stakbbings. At least 40 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including several identified by Israel as attackers. But in a letter to BBC director of news James Harding, Lord Grade accused the BBC of drawing unfair comparisons between the Israeli victims of terrorism, and Palestinians terrorists who had been killed by Israeli forces trying to stop them.

It created an ‘equivalence between Israeli victims of terrorism and Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli security forces in the act of carrying out terror attacks,’ he said. Lord Grade also argued that the controversial report ‘directly misled’ viewers by telling them there was ‘no sign of involvement by militant groups’ in the latest attacks – then confusing them with footage of militants’ banners hanging outside the house of a known terrorist.

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