re: #5 Ascher

Because it’s stupid. It’s the kind of hysterical idiotic rant that you’d expect to find on ‘Jihad Watch’.

The BBC tries to be neutral on disputed issues, and as the Wiki article I posted shows, this is a disputed issue. Therefore they are not going to use language which suggests that they have decided that one side of the dispute has the right of it. Whether the BBC has got the balance right here is of course open to argument.

However, to suggest that the BBC is an antisemitic organisation as you and others here have done is a hysterical over reaction.

If you were familiar with the BBC’s television output (they’ve just finished a series of documentaries about the victims of the Holocaust, for example) you’d realise how silly that suggestion is.

Two people who clearly did not catch my sarcasm updinged my post, thinking that I was reinforcing the idea that the BBC was antisemitic and adding Wikipedia to the list of antisemitic organisations. Would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

Ps Sorry about the late response - had connection issues yesterday.