BBC Israel Bias TAKEN APART By British-Palestinian Leader - w/. Aimee Shalan
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The brilliant Aimee Shalan is Chair of the British Palestinian Committee - www.britpalcommittee.co.uk - and Director of Makan - https://www.makan.org.uk. Interviewed on 8 February 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, throughout this genocide, the media coverage, both in Britain and the West, has been an absolute travesty, turning reality upside down, gaslighting, erasing context, deferring, of course, to Israeli narratives, refusing to refute lies and to call them for what they are, erasing the Palestinian experiences, erasing |
| 0:21.6 | Palestinian voices. We really could go on. I mean, it's a racist mess, which has been used |
| 0:25.8 | to legitimize one of the great crimes of our age. With that in mind, I'm really delighted to |
| 0:30.0 | be joined by Amy Shalan, who is the chair of the British Palestinian Committee, who've |
| 0:35.0 | been doing crucial work all the way through, not least holding politicians to account, and director of McCann, and they focus on educating |
| 0:45.2 | people about the, well, the horrors of Palestine, about how to talk about it and communicate |
| 0:50.1 | to that to a broad audience. Amy, how are you doing first? He's great to speak to you. |
| 0:55.3 | Good to speak to you too. Thank you. Solidarity is ever. You've been going on TV, |
| 1:00.0 | so of your colleagues, and the emotional labour of that I think is very difficult for people |
| 1:04.0 | like myself and others to ever truly understand. With that in mind, I just want to start. |
| 1:10.2 | There was, I'll start actually with this |
| 1:12.1 | clip, which is a clip of your colleague, director of the British Palestinian Committee, |
| 1:20.5 | Sarah Hussein. And she was on the BBC. Let's just listen to that and what the BBC presents are said. |
| 1:28.8 | President Trump's statements over the past few days constitute the most explicit |
| 1:35.2 | call for ethnic cleansing and forced displacements of Palestinians and the most explicit |
| 1:41.2 | denial of Palestinian rights of any US administration. |
| 1:45.3 | And now, of course, also suggesting that the US will occupy Gaza is obscene. |
| 1:51.4 | Now, whether he can carry out these so-called plans or will carry out these |
| 1:55.3 | so-called plans, which obviously you've heard from recent statements are very incoherent |
| 1:58.6 | at this point, the man standing next to him at |
| 2:01.6 | that press conference in Washington, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the ICC for war crimes, |
| 2:07.0 | has been carrying out these ethnic cleansing plans and denial of Palestinian rights for decades |
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