Look at this headline: “The BBC isn't just too 'woke'––over Israel, it incites baseless hatred,” which says in brief that “the BBC incites hatred.” And this is a big accusation to throw at someone.
That headline identifies an
article written by Melanie Phillips who must be thinking she caught the tiger
by the tail, but like the snake that wandered in the wrong places and inhaled
the wrong fumes, she stung herself and killed her cause before she could present it in any rational fashion.
The article was published in
the Jewish News Syndicate on October 15, 2020, also under a subtitle that tells
what Melanie Phillips intended to prove but failed to do so. Here is that
subtitle: “For years, it [BBC] has uncritically recycled Palestinian propaganda
as innately credible and true, while treating demonstrable factual Israeli
statements as mendacious propaganda”.
Those of us who feel for the
Palestinians and empathize with their pain enough to try helping them, felt
bedeviled by the Jewish propaganda machine throwing accusations at the
Palestinians without proving them or discuss them in detail so that we could
parse them and rebuff them. But we can now do it thanks to Melanie Phillips who
gave us a way to respond to such accusations.
One of the most vexing
accusations had been that the Palestinians lived for no reason but to incite
against the Israelis and the Jews in general. They had the accusation repeated
in the echo chamber so often that prominent people in America and elsewhere
mindlessly repeated it like a trained parrot. Most of the time, we could do
nothing but ignore the accusation, and go on to discuss other things.
Well, we don't have to do this
anymore because Melanie Phillips has used the word “incite” to set up an
equivalence between the Palestinian view of their situation and the BBC view of
the same Palestinian situation; one that Melanie Phillips has called
incitement. The issue has been reduced to this equation: If it is legitimate
for the BBC to see the plight of Palestinians the way that it does, it is
legitimate for the Palestinians to describe their own plight the way that they
do, and the way that does the BBC.
This being the sum total of
Palestinian and BBC propaganda, what about the Judeo-Israeli propaganda? How do
these people present their case? Well, we have right here a case study that is
the quintessential bag of Zionist weaseling which they use instead of engaging
in open debate with their opponents. What they normally do instead of debating,
is point out to a higher authority that has ruled in their favor, having
discussed the issue with them in hiding and behind closed doors. It is what
Melanie Phillips tried to say has happened, but the attempt crushed her
because, lacking enough material to work with, she was forced to make up the
falsehoods that fell on her like a ton of bricks. Look what she did:
Her opening paragraph was a
single sentence that went like this: “In recent weeks, there have been indications
that the British government intends to try to bring the BBC to heel.” Wow, that
will truly be a battle of the Titans. How will it go? How will it end? Tell us
what were those indications? We're eager to know. Well then, if you're eager to
know, here it is: “The prime Minister (of Britain) reportedly intends to
install as the BBC's chairman someone who is prepared to challenge its embedded
leftism.” But who was it that reported, and how did they know what they
reported? Don't ask no questions, and I'll tell you no lies, says Phillips with
her silence on this matter.
But not knowing how things
will unfold from here on, and to make sure that her credibility as a journalist
will not suffer much by what might happen, she thought it prudent to plant the
following hedge at this point: “It is doubtful whether this as yet unknown
individual will have any degree of success, it's vanishingly unlikely that it
will change the BBC's appalling treatment of Israel”.
Underlying the dispute between
the BBC and the Jewish propaganda machine, is the reality that after more than
five decades of occupation, the Israeli stance in Palestine has increasingly
come to look like a stubborn occupation whose aims are the same as those held
by the occupiers of an earlier era.
The Brits having been
occupiers, know exactly what the Jews of Israel are saying and doing, and know
why the Palestinians respond the way they do. And so, like any experienced
media organization, the BBC presents some programs form the Palestinian point of
view, and some from the Israeli point of view. It is normal that when
filmmakers work on a project that's supposed to reflect someone's point of
view, they be sympathetic to that point of view. The BBC does that when
treating both the Palestinian and Israeli stories.
The Jews object to that
approach because, like the old colonial powers, they want the occupation to be
discussed as if it were a good thing, and want those who resist it to be
painted as bad people. The trouble is that the old description of the occupied
being primitive savages who need to be tamed and educated, whereas the old
description of the occupier as being the gentle trainer who will civilize and
educate the savages, is no longer accepted by anyone in the world today.
So, the Jewish propaganda
machine, of which Melanie Phillips is but a cog, came up with a different––yet
the same kind of approach. It is painting the occupied Palestinians as the
aggressors in their own country, and painting the invading Jews as the victims
in someone else's country. Believe it or not, this is how Jewish logic works.
And so, that infamous machine wants the BBC to broadcast those kinds of images to the world. Anything less than that, is considered biased against the Jews who will whine from here to the end of time about being treated badly by the BBC simply because they are Jews.