BBC online censured for anti-Israel bias

[Behind the Aegis]

The BBC’s Board of Governors has censured the corporation’s BBC online service for a misleading article about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The article, published late last year, suggested the UN called for Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from territories seized during the six-day war when in fact it called for a negotiated "land for peace" settlement between Israel and "every state in the area".

The governors report, which specifically singled out the reporting of the UN resolution after the 1967 Israeli-Arab ’Six-day war’, stated that the piece on the BBC news website did not give a balanced view of events.

Absence of factual reporting

The UN Security Council 242 is very specific when it calls for a connection between a "withdrawal from territories" and all nations in the region’s "right to live in peace".

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[Trevelyan]

1. Couldn't "recommend from this forum" (???) We need to talk about the

corrupt Israeli government as opposed to the Israeli people. Just like the US, their government is committing terrible decades long atrocities in their name, just as the Bush Crime Family has been committing crimes in our name and Israel like the BFEE, has incredible control of the media and this should be fought against as well as buschco.

[pelsar]

2. which corrupt israeli govt?

israel, the people, have been electing successive govts for over 50+ years, left, right center...so which ones are the "corrupt ones?

[papau]

3. This is the only BBC weak spot - but it's been around for decades

Why bother to censor now?