BBC's Racism Over Gaza Exposed By Shocking Study
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
From 7th October 2023, it's been clear that media coverage about Palestinians has been defined by racism: that their lives are considered to have little value.
That's not simply an assertion. A detailed study has gone through the BBC's coverage in depth - and it has exposed the undeniable fact that there is proportionately far less coverage of Palestinians being killed than Israelis, and that far less humanising language is being used per violent death.
This isn't simply a moral affront - this racist coverage is crucial to making sure that one of the great crimes of our time is not being stopped.
You can see the study by the brilliant researchers Jan Lietava and Dana Najjar here: https://github.com/liet-git/bbc-bias
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| 0:00.0 | Ever since Israel began its murderous onslaught against Gaza, |
| 0:03.4 | the Western media has dripped with racism, |
| 0:06.2 | unsuttle racism, towards the Palestinian people. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, that's been a position expressed by me and many others, |
| 0:12.1 | not least of all all most importantly of course |
| 0:14.1 | Palestinians those opposed certainly to the current slaughter from the start now |
| 0:20.1 | it's manifested itself in many different ways such as the way even Palestinians |
| 0:24.4 | who've nothing, absolutely nothing to do with Hamas, who've lost multiple family |
| 0:28.8 | members and loved ones because of Israeli weapons are interrogated on television as if they're in the dock in a court |
| 0:36.0 | where they're ordered to condemn Hamas and indeed treated with far more aggression than the average |
| 0:40.4 | official spokesperson for the Israeli government or army, but it's principally |
| 0:45.2 | manifested itself in a complete contempt for the value of Palestinian life. |
| 0:51.3 | There's nothing remotely subtle about any of this. Any loss of Israeli civilian life is rightly seen and portrayed as intolerable. |
| 0:58.0 | But Palestinian life is treated as having little to no worth whatsoever. |
| 1:02.0 | Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are suffering horrific deaths |
| 1:06.0 | thanks to direct violence, bombs, bullets, |
| 1:09.0 | as well of course as the collapse of the medical system, |
| 1:12.0 | the lack of food, clean water |
| 1:13.7 | shelter and so on. As far as the media is concerned, while a single |
| 1:17.9 | civilian death on the Israel's side would rightly again be seen as an outrage there is no limit at all to how |
| 1:26.5 | many Palestinians can be killed and that's even when most of those killed are women and |
| 1:30.8 | children with 334 times as many Palestinian |
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