Post by Teddy Bear on Jan 28, 2015 17:17:16 GMT
Holocaust Day is inevitably a very sensitive time for Jews all over the world. This year perhaps more so being the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, as well as the current reminder caused by increasing anti-Semitic attacks throughout the world including Britain.
So what does the BBC see as fitting questions to be asked and answered at this time, and by whom?
Well the first is on a programme called The Big Questions. This week it comes from Salford and the question being asked is 'IS THE TIME COMING TO LAY THE HOLOCAUST TO REST'.
So let's consider first what the holocaust might mean to most Jews.
It was not the first period that a particular society that Jews were living in decided to demonize and persecute them, despite any contributions those Jews had made to that society. While any minority in a particular country might feel that much more nervous than anybody else, recurring as often as it has, makes it that much more 'alive', especially when what has been meted out to them has been so severe. Half the number of Jews on the planet were wiped out by the Nazis.
Now it's fair to assume that if on the whole life was fairly secure for Jews throughout the world, that Holocaust Day might be viewed as a thing of the past, probably never to be repeated, and would diminish in its importance. But considering the most recent widely reported attack being just over a week ago in Paris, following numerous others there and elsewhere, its significance not only remains, but increases.
So we can encapsulate the significance of Holocaust Day as being a reminder to Jews that ANY SOCIETY will sacrifice them as a minority if it believes it will serve them for another purpose. Jews are expendable, regardless of any contributions made.
With this in mind we need to see just why it is the BBC, who want continually to present themselves as caring and concerned, might be so insensitive to this.
As we see with their anti-Israel coverage of the Middle East conflict, they have no problem sacrificing the State in order to appease and promote Muslims, regardless of whether the actions and mindset in any way conforms to our own values.
So in their way, the BBC is the very real force within our society that makes Holocaust Day also a prediction to Jews about what might be coming here.
Just to make sure that their agenda makes its mark on the public, although they undoubtedly excuse it when facing criticism, on next week's Question Time from Finchley, where the largest population of Jews in this country live, who do the BBC think as a fitting person to have on the panel?
George Galloway!
We shall see February 5th just how this pans out.
In the meantime here is the Big Questions programme referred to, as well as some observations by BBC Watch and Honest Reporting.
So what does the BBC see as fitting questions to be asked and answered at this time, and by whom?
Well the first is on a programme called The Big Questions. This week it comes from Salford and the question being asked is 'IS THE TIME COMING TO LAY THE HOLOCAUST TO REST'.
So let's consider first what the holocaust might mean to most Jews.
It was not the first period that a particular society that Jews were living in decided to demonize and persecute them, despite any contributions those Jews had made to that society. While any minority in a particular country might feel that much more nervous than anybody else, recurring as often as it has, makes it that much more 'alive', especially when what has been meted out to them has been so severe. Half the number of Jews on the planet were wiped out by the Nazis.
Now it's fair to assume that if on the whole life was fairly secure for Jews throughout the world, that Holocaust Day might be viewed as a thing of the past, probably never to be repeated, and would diminish in its importance. But considering the most recent widely reported attack being just over a week ago in Paris, following numerous others there and elsewhere, its significance not only remains, but increases.
So we can encapsulate the significance of Holocaust Day as being a reminder to Jews that ANY SOCIETY will sacrifice them as a minority if it believes it will serve them for another purpose. Jews are expendable, regardless of any contributions made.
With this in mind we need to see just why it is the BBC, who want continually to present themselves as caring and concerned, might be so insensitive to this.
As we see with their anti-Israel coverage of the Middle East conflict, they have no problem sacrificing the State in order to appease and promote Muslims, regardless of whether the actions and mindset in any way conforms to our own values.
So in their way, the BBC is the very real force within our society that makes Holocaust Day also a prediction to Jews about what might be coming here.
Just to make sure that their agenda makes its mark on the public, although they undoubtedly excuse it when facing criticism, on next week's Question Time from Finchley, where the largest population of Jews in this country live, who do the BBC think as a fitting person to have on the panel?
George Galloway!
We shall see February 5th just how this pans out.
In the meantime here is the Big Questions programme referred to, as well as some observations by BBC Watch and Honest Reporting.
HMD edition of BBC One’s ‘The Big Questions’ not exempt from political propaganda
A tweet sent from the account of BBC One’s “moral, ethical and religious debate” programme ‘The Big Questions’ on January 25th has understandably caused something of a stir.
In fact, the provocative question posed in that promotion was not the “one big question” discussed in the edition of the programme broadcast on the same day as readers unable to access BBC iPlayer can see for themselves below. No less contentious than the wording of that tweet was the fact that the programme’s subject matter was allowed to be exploited for opportunistic promotion of political propaganda by Nira Yuval-Davis of the University of East London.
To be clear, the people sitting on the front row are invited guests and like all panel members appearing on ‘The Big Questions’ they would have been ‘vetted’ by the production team before their appearance on live television. That means that Nicky Campbell and his team must have known full well that they had invited an anti-Zionist, BDS-supporting proponent of the notion of the establishment of Israel as a project of “settler-colonialism” to appear on the panel of the edition of their programme advertised as part of the BBC’s Holocaust Memorial Season.
A tweet sent from the account of BBC One’s “moral, ethical and religious debate” programme ‘The Big Questions’ on January 25th has understandably caused something of a stir.
In fact, the provocative question posed in that promotion was not the “one big question” discussed in the edition of the programme broadcast on the same day as readers unable to access BBC iPlayer can see for themselves below. No less contentious than the wording of that tweet was the fact that the programme’s subject matter was allowed to be exploited for opportunistic promotion of political propaganda by Nira Yuval-Davis of the University of East London.
“And part of the problem that we see is that on the one hand we see how Israel is using – very cynically unfortunately – this very important memory of the Holocaust. […]
[…] the fact [is] that the prime minister of Israel, whenever there is a diplomatic visit, he’s taking people to Yad Vashem – the memorial museum – and in order to show them this [is] what happened to Jews in the Holocaust as a preventative measure for any critique of Israeli policies.”
[…] the fact [is] that the prime minister of Israel, whenever there is a diplomatic visit, he’s taking people to Yad Vashem – the memorial museum – and in order to show them this [is] what happened to Jews in the Holocaust as a preventative measure for any critique of Israeli policies.”
To be clear, the people sitting on the front row are invited guests and like all panel members appearing on ‘The Big Questions’ they would have been ‘vetted’ by the production team before their appearance on live television. That means that Nicky Campbell and his team must have known full well that they had invited an anti-Zionist, BDS-supporting proponent of the notion of the establishment of Israel as a project of “settler-colonialism” to appear on the panel of the edition of their programme advertised as part of the BBC’s Holocaust Memorial Season.
3. BBC Question Time’s an interesting town hall format show. Every week, you assemble a mixture of five public officials, activists, and (sometimes) outspoken celebrities, in venues around Britain, and let the public pose questions. Now the Beeb’s under fire because MP George Galloway is scheduled to be a panelist in an upcoming show in Finchley, a London suburb with one of Britain’s highest concentrations of Jewish residents.
Galloway’s Israel-bashing credentials are certainly impeccable. He refuses to debate Israelis, was censured by Ofcom for using his show to slam Israel, and was briefly investigated by police for declaring his constituency in Bradford-West an “Israel-free zone.”
The producer of Question Time responsible for booking Galloway for Finchley clearly knew what he was doing. Harry’s Place offered one terrific way the BBC can fix the problem.
Galloway’s Israel-bashing credentials are certainly impeccable. He refuses to debate Israelis, was censured by Ofcom for using his show to slam Israel, and was briefly investigated by police for declaring his constituency in Bradford-West an “Israel-free zone.”
The producer of Question Time responsible for booking Galloway for Finchley clearly knew what he was doing. Harry’s Place offered one terrific way the BBC can fix the problem.
