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Biased BBC

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 David Vance # THE DIARY OF A MADMAN. When it comes to finding instances of unambiguous BBC bias, you do not have to look very far. I was studying the main BBC news portal covering the conflict between Israel and Hamas and was being royally entertained by the..ahem... absolute neutrality of side-bar items such as "Grieving Palestinians struggle on" and "Grief and fear in Gaza" not forgetting"Israel's mixed motives" when I spotted another item entitled "Aid worker diary -part three." You should read it. It is a diary of Hatem Shurrab who is an aid worker in Gaza with the British-based "charity" Islamic Relief Worldwide. Yes, you heard that right. In this third tear-jerking instalment of his diary, Hatem writes about the psychological impact of Israel's air strikes on Gaza's children. In fact all Hatem does is spout pro-Palestinian propaganda even sharing with us the shocking news that the brother of one of his work colleagues has been killed in an Israeli attack. Then again, quite a few Hamasterrorists have been killed in Israeli attacks, haven't they, Hatem? Interesting that Islamic Relief manages to get its views embedded into the main BBC site - I can't seem to find a balancing series of opinions from an Israeli point of view. Can you? The bias in the BBC output at the moment is shocking - every bit as as bad as it was when Hezbollah fought Israel back in 2006. It seems that the hatred of Israel runs deep in the BBC and such profound endemic anti-Semitism is reason enough to pull the license tax.