"Still more insidious is the hidden bias of the BBC. Most of it is subtle, and all the more dangerous for that. Take the use of the word terrorist. Both the US state department and the UK government, along with the rest of the EU, classify Hamas and Islamic Jihad as "terrorist organisations". Even Palestinians have used the term "terror" to describe attacks on Israeli civilians: on the BBC World Service on December 4 2001, Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Authority security service, referred to the attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa as "terror attacks"; on Newsnight the same day, Nabil Abourdeneh, an adviser to Yasser Arafat, referred to Palestinian militants as "terrorist groups". But not the BBC's correspondents themselves. When they refer to Hamas and Islamic Jihad they call them not "terrorists" but "militants", "hard liners" and "radicals"."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Jews from the United KingdomJournalists from EnglandUniversity of Oxford alumniEditors from EnglandColumnists from England
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
"Massacre of the truth", The Guardian (24 September 2002)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Pollard
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard (born 18 December 1964) is a British author and journalist. From 2008 until December 2021, he was the editor of The Jewish Chronicle and remains a senior advisor and writer for the paper.
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Stephen Pollard →
Related Quotes
"The Big Lie is not the first big lie to come from the Corbynites and it won’t be the last. On social media, #ItWasASc…"
"'Oh Jeremy Corbyn' refers, of course, to the Glastonbury chanting in 2017. Nostalgia has its uses, but when it serves…"
"The Big Lie was first used by Hitler in Mein Kampf, to describe what he called the use by Jews of a lie so huge that …"
"[Stuart] Jeffries is genuinely criticising a documentary about a massacre on the grounds that including the victims' …"
"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"
"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"
"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"
"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"
"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"
"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"