(Jewish Group) EXCLUSIVE: BBC Arabic accused of 'normalising Jew-hate'

BBC Arabic gave a platform to social media posts attacking “Zionist terrorism” and hailing the imagined destruction of Israel, the JC can reveal.

The revelations have prompted media monitoring group CAMERA to accuse the corporation of “normalising Jew-hate” and question why the BBC is not holding its Arabic service to the same journalistic standards as its other channels.

The most controversial example came in September 2019, when presenter Ahmad Fakhouri was reporting that Berlin authorities had cancelled the performance of two Palestinian musicians who called for the ‘bombing’ of Tel Aviv.

During the broadcast, he read out a tweet which condemned Germany and attacked “the Zionist 
terrorism which masters the German government refuses any word of truth that might embarrass them [sic].”

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In it, Mr Bouajila attacked those who support Israeli tourism as “Zio-Masonic” and said: “The straw man of ‘antisemitism’ and the allegations of bigotry, terrorism and assaulting ‘our Jewish brethren’ will deter the cowardly politicians, commentators and academics who want to stay where they are or aspire to move up the ladder.”

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Wow, that excuse gets LOTS of action from certain sectors!