I’m not surprised by any of this. The BBC has always wanted to censor any criticism of the state of Israel and Zionism. Now it’s doing it through its editorial guidelines, which is in effect self censorship by journalists who work for the organisation. If they don’t abide by the guidelines then they lose their jobs. The BBC can then claim it doesn’t censor anything.
Frightening level of BBC complicity in promoting and enabling genocide. Like Labour the more they do to appease the extremists the more the extremists demand … the BBC is turning into the Zionist Western hegemony billionaire broadcasting corporation run and ‘owned’ by our dire establishment. Another excellent article that should be from a dystopian novel about a fascist U.K. - sadly it is here and now.
"This is exactly the type of thing a Zionist would come up with if they wanted to shield Israel from criticism."
Well, Zionism originated as British Israelism circa 1580, shortly before ye o£de Honourable East India Company formed to pi££age Asia, with the seed capital £ooted from the Spanish looters of Turtle Island...so a British Broadcasting CORPORATION is going to serve British corporate interests.
Its sorta chi$£€d into it's tin hat. Meanwhile, British Gas is $£€€ving the Liavathan field off Gaza, and BP want's Iran's oil 'bacKKK'.
I am a secular Jew with many Zionist forbears, who went to Israel to be lawyers (Attorney-General), musicians and academics. I stayed with some ofthem in 1964 when life was nothing like as rough for the non-Jews as it is now. Jewish law is very clear that taking life is not permitted, and when animal lives are taken for food, there are very strict rules about how this should be done. Anybody who knows only the ten commandments ( which are being totally ignored by the current government) should spend some time in Leviticus - and then think about what is happening now.
"Jewish law is very clear that taking life is not permitted" unless, of course, those lives are human and not of the same religious belief:
Deuteronomy 7:1-2 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— / and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
Deuteronomy 13:15,16 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword…
Deuteronomy 25:18 When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.
BiBiC has zero integrity. Genocided and dispossessed Palestinians ARE the Semites by definition. The term was hijacked by bigoted Europeans to refer to fellow Europeans of a different faith.
The term "Semitic" was hijacked when it was recontextualized into the concept of "antisemitism" in 1879 by German journalist Wilhelm Marr. Marr co-opted the linguistic term, originally describing the Semitic language family, to create a new form of racial hatred directed specifically at Jewish people, despite no unified "Semitic race" existing.
The Linguistic Origin
August Ludwig von Schlözer: coined the term "Semitic" in 1781 to classify a group of languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic.
The Hijacking in 1879
Wilhelm Marr, a German journalist, began to politicize the term in 1879 by using it in the pamphlet Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum ("The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism").
Marr founded the "League for Anti-Semitism" in 1879, which focused entirely on anti-Jewish political action.
He and his followers invented the concept of "antisemitism" to provide a supposedly intellectual basis for anti-Jewish sentiment, elevating traditional anti-Judaism with racial theories.
The Impact
This hijacking gave a pseudo-scientific facade to Jew-hatred, creating the false idea of a distinct "Semitic race" to oppose.
The term "Semitism" was invented by antisemites to be the perceived opposite of the anti-Jewish phenomenon they were campaigning against, rather than referring to the linguistic group itself.
This concept was then incorporated into a broader movement that combined Christian anti-Judaism with political, social, and economic antisemitism, culminating in Nazi ideology in the 20th century.
I hope you don't mind but if copied your answer so as to be able to easily post it as a refute to false claims of antisemitism from people who clearly have no grasp of what Semitic/Semite means.
Thanks Derek. I haven't credited you in the post I've made on Bluesky, for reasons of your own privacy & security. If you want me to do so please let me know.
The first antisemites to equal supremacist Zionism with Judaism are Israeli top rabbis and the rabbis and synagogues outside of Israel.
It is them who are indoctrinating Jewish-identified people that Israel it their kingdom, state, safe haven and representation. There are only Neturei Karta religious Jews who oppose Zionist hegemony. All others support Israel or actively promote its ultimate unconditional righteousness.
When we see rabbinical authorities and synagogues actively rallying for IDF, promoting selling land in occupied Palestine, organize fundraisers for Israel, Birthright trips, "educational" trips, having extensive business, teaching Jews to use weapons, promoting hatred of Gentiles, Muslims and international law, when we see yeshivas and Jewish schools educating kids about "terrorists" and the nobility of IDF, when we see Jewish religious elites in AIPAC and Friends of IDF gatherings, it is hard to say "Zionism is not Judaism".
Secular Jewish friends of mine who do not claim to be Zionists, still participate in the fundraiserss for Israel - birthright trips for their grandchildren - stories of severe anti=semitism which have them fearfull of going out. , etc. One friend refuses to buy poinsettiass at Christmas - red is a sign of anti-semitism she tells me. Yes, I agree based on long years of experience, it IS hard to say Zionism is not Judaism.
This was the idea of Zionist marketing campaign. Market it to the Gentiles as their ultimate Biblical Kingdom (therefore the name "Israel") and market it to Jews as their only safe haven in the world that is inherently hostile to Jews out of envy for their brilliance.
There is an ancient Passover song (nothing to do with Zionism or Israel): Ve Hi She Amda. It goes: "In every generation they rise up again to annihilate us, and the Divine Hand always delivers us". This is Talmudic Rabbinical propaganda that Gentiles are inherently hostile to Jews. No matter when, where, which period.
The fact is that Judaism is not uniform and one for all. There are various sects and directions, sadly the supremacist, arrogant, manipulative, antigentilist and power-greedy strain of Talmudic Judaism, based on pharisaic literalist reading of the Torah and Talmudic commentaries, is the mainstream today - plus, as you said, plain brainwashing Jews into
segregationist tribalism and rejection of being like everyone else.
As Norman Finkelstein said, "Being Jewish today opens all doors and closes none" - which tells us that "antisemitism" is not just political gaslighting Jews into obedience to Zionism, but also millennia of rabbinical
Thanks for this comprehensive, great reporting as always, Mr. Hale. The BBC once again uses its language and "reporting" to shield the occupiers from blame, and gives them cover by using the convenient and tired trope of criticism of the occupation equaling being against a specific religious group, which it is most certainly NOT. The former is criticism of an illegitimate, brutal occupation and the entity and ideology behind it, the latter is discrimination against a specific religious group, which are NOT the same.
Well argued! The BBC is yet another weapon in the fascists' arsenal. But I am sure we'll be told next that we can't equate censorship and Zionism with fascism...
I have no idea whether commenters on YouTube are representative of anyone other than themselves, but I have seen over the course of the genocide a rapidly growing tendency for supposedly pro-Palestinian commenters to refer to 'tiny hats', 'Juice' or just plain Jews in violently derogatory terms. Many comments are about how the Jews were rightly expelled from many countries, or that the 'Austrian painter' was right. None of this is any help to the cause of Palestinian liberation and it would be foolish to pretend that there isn't a virulent strain of real anti-Jewish hatred around.
My point is that campaigners for Palestinian liberation must be wary of anyone who conflates Zionism with Jewishness as the BBC's guidelines do, and that includes those who pretend to be pro-Palestinian while holding plainly anti-Jewish positions. They seem to exist, and I have no idea whether such people could be described as on the left or right. I want nothing to do with them.
Well said, Ricky. You clearly make the point. And I like John Senior's new designation of the BBC (sadly) now as the Zionist Western hegemony billionaire broadcasting corporation. Hope that sticks!
In other words, you send white neo-Jesus to slaughter brown Jesus; you willingly join Jesus’ enemies, the Pharisees and Sadducees, the dogmatists and aristocrats, to slaughter Jesus the humanitarian because you prefer neo-Jesus the marauding bloodthirsty Conqueror.
I’m not surprised by any of this. The BBC has always wanted to censor any criticism of the state of Israel and Zionism. Now it’s doing it through its editorial guidelines, which is in effect self censorship by journalists who work for the organisation. If they don’t abide by the guidelines then they lose their jobs. The BBC can then claim it doesn’t censor anything.
Frightening level of BBC complicity in promoting and enabling genocide. Like Labour the more they do to appease the extremists the more the extremists demand … the BBC is turning into the Zionist Western hegemony billionaire broadcasting corporation run and ‘owned’ by our dire establishment. Another excellent article that should be from a dystopian novel about a fascist U.K. - sadly it is here and now.
This is outrageous! Conflating two different things!
"This is exactly the type of thing a Zionist would come up with if they wanted to shield Israel from criticism."
Well, Zionism originated as British Israelism circa 1580, shortly before ye o£de Honourable East India Company formed to pi££age Asia, with the seed capital £ooted from the Spanish looters of Turtle Island...so a British Broadcasting CORPORATION is going to serve British corporate interests.
Its sorta chi$£€d into it's tin hat. Meanwhile, British Gas is $£€€ving the Liavathan field off Gaza, and BP want's Iran's oil 'bacKKK'.
Bibi $€€, Bibi Doo.
Is there something wrong with your keyboard?
Lots...mostly its the wonky keyboard player...
Washed him last night and can't do a thing with him today.
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Claims he's haunted by the kids buried under the toxic rubble in Gaza.
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I am a secular Jew with many Zionist forbears, who went to Israel to be lawyers (Attorney-General), musicians and academics. I stayed with some ofthem in 1964 when life was nothing like as rough for the non-Jews as it is now. Jewish law is very clear that taking life is not permitted, and when animal lives are taken for food, there are very strict rules about how this should be done. Anybody who knows only the ten commandments ( which are being totally ignored by the current government) should spend some time in Leviticus - and then think about what is happening now.
"Jewish law is very clear that taking life is not permitted" unless, of course, those lives are human and not of the same religious belief:
Deuteronomy 7:1-2 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— / and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
Deuteronomy 13:15,16 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword…
Deuteronomy 25:18 When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.
BiBiC has zero integrity. Genocided and dispossessed Palestinians ARE the Semites by definition. The term was hijacked by bigoted Europeans to refer to fellow Europeans of a different faith.
The term "Semitic" was hijacked when it was recontextualized into the concept of "antisemitism" in 1879 by German journalist Wilhelm Marr. Marr co-opted the linguistic term, originally describing the Semitic language family, to create a new form of racial hatred directed specifically at Jewish people, despite no unified "Semitic race" existing.
The Linguistic Origin
August Ludwig von Schlözer: coined the term "Semitic" in 1781 to classify a group of languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic.
The Hijacking in 1879
Wilhelm Marr, a German journalist, began to politicize the term in 1879 by using it in the pamphlet Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum ("The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism").
Marr founded the "League for Anti-Semitism" in 1879, which focused entirely on anti-Jewish political action.
He and his followers invented the concept of "antisemitism" to provide a supposedly intellectual basis for anti-Jewish sentiment, elevating traditional anti-Judaism with racial theories.
The Impact
This hijacking gave a pseudo-scientific facade to Jew-hatred, creating the false idea of a distinct "Semitic race" to oppose.
The term "Semitism" was invented by antisemites to be the perceived opposite of the anti-Jewish phenomenon they were campaigning against, rather than referring to the linguistic group itself.
This concept was then incorporated into a broader movement that combined Christian anti-Judaism with political, social, and economic antisemitism, culminating in Nazi ideology in the 20th century.
I hope you don't mind but if copied your answer so as to be able to easily post it as a refute to false claims of antisemitism from people who clearly have no grasp of what Semitic/Semite means.
Very grateful to you for your clarity.
Yes please do. I keep notes as well.
Thanks Derek. I haven't credited you in the post I've made on Bluesky, for reasons of your own privacy & security. If you want me to do so please let me know.
No need. Thanks for being HUMAN.
The first antisemites to equal supremacist Zionism with Judaism are Israeli top rabbis and the rabbis and synagogues outside of Israel.
It is them who are indoctrinating Jewish-identified people that Israel it their kingdom, state, safe haven and representation. There are only Neturei Karta religious Jews who oppose Zionist hegemony. All others support Israel or actively promote its ultimate unconditional righteousness.
When we see rabbinical authorities and synagogues actively rallying for IDF, promoting selling land in occupied Palestine, organize fundraisers for Israel, Birthright trips, "educational" trips, having extensive business, teaching Jews to use weapons, promoting hatred of Gentiles, Muslims and international law, when we see yeshivas and Jewish schools educating kids about "terrorists" and the nobility of IDF, when we see Jewish religious elites in AIPAC and Friends of IDF gatherings, it is hard to say "Zionism is not Judaism".
Secular Jewish friends of mine who do not claim to be Zionists, still participate in the fundraiserss for Israel - birthright trips for their grandchildren - stories of severe anti=semitism which have them fearfull of going out. , etc. One friend refuses to buy poinsettiass at Christmas - red is a sign of anti-semitism she tells me. Yes, I agree based on long years of experience, it IS hard to say Zionism is not Judaism.
This was the idea of Zionist marketing campaign. Market it to the Gentiles as their ultimate Biblical Kingdom (therefore the name "Israel") and market it to Jews as their only safe haven in the world that is inherently hostile to Jews out of envy for their brilliance.
There is an ancient Passover song (nothing to do with Zionism or Israel): Ve Hi She Amda. It goes: "In every generation they rise up again to annihilate us, and the Divine Hand always delivers us". This is Talmudic Rabbinical propaganda that Gentiles are inherently hostile to Jews. No matter when, where, which period.
The fact is that Judaism is not uniform and one for all. There are various sects and directions, sadly the supremacist, arrogant, manipulative, antigentilist and power-greedy strain of Talmudic Judaism, based on pharisaic literalist reading of the Torah and Talmudic commentaries, is the mainstream today - plus, as you said, plain brainwashing Jews into
segregationist tribalism and rejection of being like everyone else.
As Norman Finkelstein said, "Being Jewish today opens all doors and closes none" - which tells us that "antisemitism" is not just political gaslighting Jews into obedience to Zionism, but also millennia of rabbinical
indoctrination into antigentilism.
"Israel and Anti-Gentile Traditions"
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/israel-and-anti-gentile-traditions/
Bill Maher is, and has always been, a POS Zionist, i.e., an enemy of humanity.
BBC : British Biased Chanel, we all know the truth by now
Thanks for articulating this so well, Ricky. It needed to be done.
Thanks for this comprehensive, great reporting as always, Mr. Hale. The BBC once again uses its language and "reporting" to shield the occupiers from blame, and gives them cover by using the convenient and tired trope of criticism of the occupation equaling being against a specific religious group, which it is most certainly NOT. The former is criticism of an illegitimate, brutal occupation and the entity and ideology behind it, the latter is discrimination against a specific religious group, which are NOT the same.
Well argued! The BBC is yet another weapon in the fascists' arsenal. But I am sure we'll be told next that we can't equate censorship and Zionism with fascism...
I have no idea whether commenters on YouTube are representative of anyone other than themselves, but I have seen over the course of the genocide a rapidly growing tendency for supposedly pro-Palestinian commenters to refer to 'tiny hats', 'Juice' or just plain Jews in violently derogatory terms. Many comments are about how the Jews were rightly expelled from many countries, or that the 'Austrian painter' was right. None of this is any help to the cause of Palestinian liberation and it would be foolish to pretend that there isn't a virulent strain of real anti-Jewish hatred around.
who is denying the existence of anti-Jewish hatred?
My point is that campaigners for Palestinian liberation must be wary of anyone who conflates Zionism with Jewishness as the BBC's guidelines do, and that includes those who pretend to be pro-Palestinian while holding plainly anti-Jewish positions. They seem to exist, and I have no idea whether such people could be described as on the left or right. I want nothing to do with them.
Well said, Ricky. You clearly make the point. And I like John Senior's new designation of the BBC (sadly) now as the Zionist Western hegemony billionaire broadcasting corporation. Hope that sticks!
In other words, you send white neo-Jesus to slaughter brown Jesus; you willingly join Jesus’ enemies, the Pharisees and Sadducees, the dogmatists and aristocrats, to slaughter Jesus the humanitarian because you prefer neo-Jesus the marauding bloodthirsty Conqueror.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/x-rubicon-thanksgiving-and-christmas-3
I learned a lot.