Thursday, November 15, 2012

When BBC ignores Israeli murder of its own cameraman’s baby, what hope for other Palestinians?

BBC cameraman Jihad Misharawi at his funeral of his baby son today
 (Majdi Fathi / APA images)



In a new low for the BBC’s objectively pro-Israel coverage, the British state broadcaster seems to be doing its best to downplay the murder by Israel of family members of one of its own cameramen.

The 11-month-old son of BBC Arabic’s picture editor Jihad Misharawi was killed in Israeli tank shelling last night, along with his sister-in-law, according to BBC journalists on Twitter, and one report online (which didn’t even name him) .... http://electronicintifada.net