Jon donnison bbc biography
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Pilger gave us the word to describe how the BBC distorts its coverage of Jews
The journalist John Pilger died last week. He became so notorious for skewing his reports to fit his preconceived agenda that his behaviour gave rise to a new word: to Pilger, which its originator, Auberon Waugh, defined as “presenting information in a sensationalist manner in support of a particular conclusion.” Now Pilger is no longer with us, the verb needs updating.
It’s obvious really, isn’t it? To BBC. There are so many examples of this that we could fill an entire issue, let alone this one column. But when it comes to BBCing stories, nothing beats the BBC’s attitude to Israel — and, indeed, to Jews.
Remember how it covered the attack on Jewish children in Oxford during Chanukah in 2021, when the BBC repeatedly and baselessly accused one of the victims of making an “anti-Muslim slur”, so it would seem he was somehow to blame? The coverage was entirely BBCed.
The very next month, in January 2022, the BBC’s reporting of the Beth Israel shul siege in Texas, when a rabbi and three other Jews were taken hostage, was also thoroughly BBCed. It refused to mention any notion of antisemitism being a factor in gunman Malik Faisal Akram’s actions, citing only his supposed mental health problems.
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One week in Gaza: 'There are no safe places here'
BBC News, Jerusalem
Bisan Owda is a 25-year-old filmmaker in Gaza.
She's worked with the UN on women's rights issues and with the European Union on climate change.
But Bisan's passion is trying to document life in the territory.
All week, she's been posting video updates on Instagram about her life under fire.
Last Monday - two days after Hamas's unprecedented cross border attack that killed 1,400 in Israel - Bisan like thousands of others received a text message from the Israeli military.
It told everyone in the central Rimal district of Gaza City to leave their homes.
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Bisan quickly grabbed all the possessions she could carry and rushed out of her apartment, filming as she went.
"We've been told to go to safe areas," she says on camera, then jumping into a taxi. "But there are no safe places in Gaza."
Bisan headed to the main Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which is already overwhelmed with casualties but where thousands of Gazans have gone this past week to seek some sort of shelter.
Later that night Israel bombed Rimal, hitting what it said were 200 Hamas targets and reducing pra
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Wikileaks: US alignment unruffled jam embassy rope leaks
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