{"id":183540,"date":"2019-02-09T05:40:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T05:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183540"},"modified":"2019-02-13T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T04:45:10","slug":"anger-as-good-morning-britain-posts-survey-on-boycotting-eurovision-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183540","title":{"rendered":"Anger as Good Morning Britain posts survey on boycotting Eurovision in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jewish Chronicle \u2013 Feb 8, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Good Morning Britain<\/em> has deleted a Twitter poll that asked its followers whether they thought Britain should boycott this year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest, which is being held in Israel, after it sparked anger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a Twitter poll, <em>GMB <\/em>asked: \u201cThere are calls for Britain to boycott this year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, over Israel&#8217;s human rights record. Do you agree? #100DaysToEurovision\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The poll was published on Thursday and deleted on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Talent agent Jonathan Shalit<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>told the <em>JC<\/em> he rang GMB editor Neil Thompson who &#8220;immediately responded very positively, totally understanding the negative and bias inferences of such a question&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;He explained GMB remain huge supporters of Eurovision which they will be covering as usual from Tel Aviv and sending a reporter to do so,&#8221; Mr Shalit said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;I am delighted and pleased with the responsible response from Good Morning Britain.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Responding to the poll before it was deleted, David Collier, a researcher who documents Jew-hate, wrote: \u201cDisgraceful. Currently, in antisemitic groups across the web, a &#8216;call to action&#8217; has gone out on this. Twitter handles, faceless, anonymous, get to legitimise their hate by voting &#8216;yes&#8217; &#8230; How stupid can you be?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After it was deleted, he wrote: &#8220;Will media outlets please get the message. BDS isn&#8217;t about Palestinian rights nor settlements. It is a call to destroy Israel.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pro-BDS protesters are planning a demonstration on Friday at MediaCitySalford in Manchester, where the BBC will be broadcasting the live show <em>Eurovision Song Contest: You Decide<\/em> featuring last year&#8217;s Israeli winner, Netta Barzilai.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disgraceful. Currently, in antisemitic groups across the web, a &#39;call to action&#39; has gone out on this. Twitter handles, faceless, anonymous, get to legitimise their hate by voting &#39;yes&#39; &#8211; and you *IDIOTS* have given them a free blast of publicity.<br \/>How stupid can you be?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Collier (@mishtal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mishtal\/status\/1093578595350577152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Actress Tracy-Ann Oberman wrote: \u201c\u200fLove you guys dearly but why the hell would you legitimise this nonsense?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Twenty-four hours after the GMB poll was posted, 53 per cent of the 46,000 respondents had voted \u201cno\u201d to the boycott; with 47 per cent in favour<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/uk-news\/anger-as-good-morning-britain-posts-survey-on-boycotting-israel-eurovision-1.479727\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting, insofar as it reveals mounting anti-Israeli sentiment in Britain. Although this only becomes apparent in the final sentence, when it\u2019s revealed that nearly half of those questioned felt Britain should boycott the Eurovision as it was held in Israel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183542,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183540\/revisions\/183542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}