Fjordman noted a few days ago that the media blackout about the mass murderer Anders Breivik’s confession that he associated with the counter-jihad movement in order to try to destroy it showed “how rotten and dishonest Western mass media are, how much information they hide and how much they distort.” Indeed, and that rottenness and dishonesty is general when it comes to media treatment of foes of jihad. Israel, on the front lines of the global jihad, is one of the media’s favorite targets.
“In which BBC News abandons all pretence of fact checking,” from BBC Watch, January 30 (thanks to Marc):
On the morning of January 29th a Palestinian man named Mohammed Mubarak opened fire on an Israeli army position near the community of Ateret on route 465 in the Mateh Binyamin district. The soldiers returned fire and Mubarak was shot and killed. It
later emerged that he had earlier fired at passing civilian vehicles before attacking the army post.
Later in the day, a report on the incident titled “Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank” appeared on the Middle East page of the BBC News website. Readers of that headline are of course given no clue as to the fact that Mubarak shot at soldiers and civilians before he was killed.
The report itself opens in the usual ‘last-first’ BBC reporting style, with no less typical use of scare quotes around the word terrorist.
“A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli troops in the West Bank.
Palestinian medics identified him as Mohammed Mubarak, 22, a labourer from the Jalazun refugee camp near Ramallah.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said its soldiers had opened fire on a “terrorist” after he attacked an army post near the settlement of Ofra.”
The article then moves on to the realms of second-hand rumour and hearsay.
“But Palestinian witnesses told the AFP news agency that Mubarak had not been armed, and had been harassed by the troops and made to remove his clothes.”
Obviously the BBC has not bothered to carry out any kind of fact checking before electing to repeat and promote unverified hearsay from unidentified passers-by. Over at the Israellycool blog is a photograph of Mubarak taken shortly after the incident and published by the Ma’an news agency in this article. As can clearly be seen, he is fully clothed and the weapon used lies beside him.
Later in the day, a Facebook posting from an advisor to the PA president described Mubarak as “a Martyr in the battlefield”:
“With the most exalted expressions of honor and pride and with symbols of Jihad and resistance, we part with piety from our heroic Martyr (Shahid) Muhammad Mahmoud Mubarak from the resolute Jalazone refugee camp, who ascended to Heaven as a Martyr in the battlefield while challenging the Zionist enemy.”


gravenimage says
BBC lies about “Palestinian” jihadist who opened fire on Israeli soldiers
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Repulsive. With media like this, who needs enemies?
marky says
Many of us in the UK are sickend that in order to watch any uk tv channel we have to buy an annual tv licence, which funds the BBC.
The BBC of course are anti jewish, anti christian and very very pro islam, in that they parrott all the lies their muslim correspondants come out with.
Hard to believe that the BBC actually started out with Christian ethics….. so far the opposite way now of course.
Denis MacEoin says
You go too far. Agreed that the BBC is biased, mainly about Israel. But last year it ran an excellent 6-part series by Simon Schama, The History of the Jews, a very fair documentary. Recently, there have been several programmes about the Holocaust. They aren’t as bad as you paint them, though their news reporting could do with considerable improvement.
Silvia says
Their news are revisionist history and deliberate fabrication. It’s not just “biased”. They create a reality.
Are we now lauding them for acknowledging Jews exist and the Holocaust really happened?
They are presenting the self defense of Jews as murder of a “poor” Palestinian when that animal was a terrorist. They ALWAYS do that!
quovadis2014 says
Omg, you’re from England. You poor soul.
Gleaner1 says
Correct in all regards Marky.
fair_dinkum says
“But Palestinian witnesses told the AFP news agency that Mubarak had not been armed, and had been harassed by the troops and made to remove his clothes.”
purple monkey dishwasher. what a clumsy, standard (always add something about a body serch, it seems to rile em up) line this is.. concocted by an intern?
repulsive BBC. i bet al jazeera themselves would be twice as honest and informative. in fact, thats the way ive found it over the last 8-10 years.
even al jazeera.
J.E Hay says
It Is No Surprise That The B.B.C Would Distort The Truth Of Arab Islamic Terrorists’ Unprovoked And Unjustified War Against Israel And Israelis And That Is Because The B.B.C Has Been In Bed With These Bedouin Bandit Squatters And Has Long Championed The Unholy And Criminal Agenda Of Islamic Terrorists Throughout The World Against Innocent Human Beings Who Do Not Belong To The Islamic Satanic Death Cult And Does Not Worship Their False Prophet Mohammad.
chevalier says
Gramsci laid out a strategy for destroying Christianity and Western culture by conducting, in an orderly fashion, a “long march through the institutions” – where Marxists would infiltrate the schools, the media, the churches, the labor unions, the major political parties – i.e., every institution that could influence the culture.
The BBC is perhaps the best example of the undermining of western culture in the UK.
Geppetto says
Exactly. A rare insight into what’s been an insidious, stealthy, decades long infiltration into every venue capable of influencing public opinion, eventually on a grand scale, starting with academia. American government at every level, the media, the entertainment industry, etc. are rife with their “inductees.” Impossible to do justice to this in a few lines but this dilemma will take decades to resolve starting with when those who’ve been duped begin to awake to the threat the world is faced with. As of now, while there are some encouraging signs, America and the west have a very long way to go. Justin Bieber is still front page news while the Muslim atrocities, declarations and acts of hatred committed on a daily basis remain a conspiracy conjured up by a kook fringe; “Islamophobes.”
Don’t know about you but almost no one I associate or communicate with want to hear it. When you come right down to it what is being perpetrated in the name of Islam, every day, is so bizarre, disgusting and inhumane that it “cannot be true.” “Islam is a religion of peace.” Human beings are just not capable of such atrocities. It does not fit the western mindset, a fact that’s been successfully employed to hide its true intentions for decades by the most evil mass cult on the planet; Islam.
Larry Shapiro says
The BBC relies on Arab reporters to provide the news, and these so called journalists are either intimidated into providing the Palestinian spin, or do so out of personal conviction. The BBC’s editors are predisposed to favour the Arabs, but are probably incompetent to really understand the story and far too lazy to get the IDF version. I suppose the BBC would report on Jesus’ resurrection by having a headline like: Palestinian preacher moves boulder to gain freedom.
LouA says
Actually Larry I know someone who worked at the foreign desk at the BBC a number of years ago. His report; the division was run by a openly anti Semite who intentionally slanted the news against Israel. Since the BBC chief in Israel had a mural sized picture of Arafat towering over his desk, it’s pretty obvious that the organizations is infested with bias and hate.
4thwatch says
On a related topic. The BBC World reporting on the Islamic terror in The Central African Republic convinced me beyond reasonable doubt that the BBC is the propaganda arm of the Islamists. Virtually No mention that the Islamic terror was perpetrated by Muslims. Every opportunity taken to slight the Christians and taint them.
The BBC, being a peace loving organization cannot actually slaughter Christians but it can do what it does best, slight them.
Aisha says
The Brits still remember fondly the great romance they had with Muslims when they were the dominating power in the Middle East. They can’t tell the truth now. It would be too painful to admit to what occurred.