More former BBC reporters speak out about biased coverage of Israel, in this case focusing on Raffi Berg.
The world Berg presents in his early BBC features is a rich source of misinformation and/or disinformation. If you spend time following the links here, you'll find these and other examples that we don't have time to explore more fully:
Leah Tsemel was born in the "Israeli" city of Haifa in 1945, three years before Israel came into being.
Arabs and Jews "coexisted in Haifa for over 100 years in peace and war", ignoring the Palestinians' mass expulsion by Zionist forces in April 1948.
Shilo settlement is described as "the ancient capital of Israel and for centuries the Biblical home of the holy Ark of the Covenant", turning scripture into journalistic fact.
He asserts the IDF "was originally sent into Gaza" to protect Jewish communities.
He ignores Israeli missile strikes on Jabaliya Camp in October-November 2005 to be able to claim "after a period of calm, Palestinian militants unleashed another barrage of Qassams" on Israeli inhabitants of the Gaza envelope.
A political scientist is quoted saying that relocation of 500,000 Jewish settlers would be highly problematic because "[t]here are very few precedents in history where 8% of a population has been moved". Don't mention the Nakba!
Raffi Berg: In His Own Words
Israel-friendly framing of news was commonplace at the BBC during the two decades I worked there, but one colleague stood out for his single-minded promotion of Zionist narratives.Jadaliyya
