{"id":274622,"date":"2023-10-17T06:48:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T06:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274622"},"modified":"2023-10-18T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T07:30:17","slug":"bbc-takes-six-reporters-off-air-amid-investigation-into-anti-israeli-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274622","title":{"rendered":"BBC Takes Six Reporters Off Air Amid Investigation Into Anti-Israeli Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DNYUZ \u2013 Oct 16, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" data-tag=\"bbc\">BBC<\/a> has taken six journalists in the Middle East off air as it urgently investigates whether they posted anti-Israeli messages on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC News Arabic reporters are suspected of breaking the British broadcaster\u2019s strict impartiality rules by tweeting or liking posts that appeared to be supportive of Hamas on Twitter, now X.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC said: \u201cWe are urgently investigating this matter. We take allegations of breaches of our editorial and social media guidelines with the utmost seriousness, and if and when we find breaches we will act, including taking disciplinary action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The posts in question have been taken down, but <em>The Daily Telegraph r<\/em>eported that they likened Hamas to freedom fighters and described the October 7 terror attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/tag\/israel\/\" data-tag=\"israel\">Israel<\/a> as a \u201cmorning of hope.\u201d One message is reported to have said: \u201cIsrael\u2019s prestige is crying in the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Telegraph\u2019<\/em>s report was based on an investigation by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), a U.S.-based organization that campaigns for balanced media coverage of Israel and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>CAMERA said: \u201cThese revelations about BBC Arabic employees go hand in hand with the outlet\u2019s ongoing conduct during the war. The BBC has repeatedly whitewashed the practice of targeting Jewish civilians in Israel even before the current escalation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey constantly claim that they apply the same editorial standards of accuracy and impartiality to their services in all languages, including those with which BBC management is not familiar and can\u2019t oversee properly, such as Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut these lapses do not occur anywhere near as frequently in their English language content, so that can\u2019t be taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/10\/bbc-reporters-pro-palestine-investigation-1235574551\/\">BBC Takes Six Reporters Off Air Amid Investigation Into Anti-Israeli Tweets<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/10\/bbc-reporters-pro-palestine-investigation-1235574551\/\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2023\/10\/16\/bbc-takes-six-reporters-off-air-amid-investigation-into-anti-israeli-tweets\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC News Arabic reporters are suspected of breaking the British broadcaster\u2019s strict impartiality rules by tweeting or liking posts that appeared to be supportive of Hamas on Twitter, now X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,37,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274622","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=274622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274623,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274622\/revisions\/274623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}