{"id":37806,"date":"2019-07-15T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=37806"},"modified":"2019-07-15T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:44:46","slug":"bbc-hasbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2019\/07\/15\/bbc-hasbara\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Hasbara Cooked"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ezcol_1half]Perhaps you gave, as I did, that Panorama special – yes, that one<\/em> – a miss. Or maybe, a glutton for torture, you actually watched it – in which case you’ll be needing professional help.<\/p>\n

Here, with his habitually unruffled calmness, simple but never simplistic approach and tones refreshingly devoid of irony or show, is Jonathan Cook:[\/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]\"Jonathan[\/ezcol_1half_end]<\/p>\n

It is difficult to describe as anything other than a hatchet job the BBC Panorama special this week that sought to bolster claims that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has become \u201cinstitutionally antisemitic\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The partisan tone was set from the opening shot. A young woman whose name was not revealed tearfully claimed to have been abused with antisemitic taunts at a Labour Party conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decision not to disclose the interviewee\u2019s identity is understandable. It would have discredited the whole narrative Panorama was trying so hard to build.<\/span><\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s name is Ella Rose, a senior official in the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), an organisation representing Jewish and non-Jewish members of Labour at the forefront of attacks on Corbyn. Rose has a<\/span> secret past<\/strong><\/a> too: she once worked at the Israeli embassy in London.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years ago she and other JLM officials were<\/span> exposed<\/a><\/strong> collaborating with Shai Masot, an Israeli embassy official. He had to be hurriedly<\/span> removed from the UK<\/a><\/strong> after an undercover Al Jazeera documentary showed him plotting with activists in the Labour and Conservative parties to discredit British politicians seen as a threat to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most observers believe that Masot was operating within the embassy as part of Israel\u2019s strategic affairs ministry, which in turn has been<\/span> running black op<\/strong>s<\/strong><\/a> against western critics of Israel. Corbyn, we can safely assume, is high on that list.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rose is<\/span> on record<\/strong><\/a> as saying she was a close friend of Masot\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her emotional, quavering voice as she spoke to Panorama presented a very different image from her appearances in Al-Jazeera\u2019s undercover footage. There she is shown<\/span> threatening<\/a><\/strong> to use physical violence \u2013 employing Krav Maga, a martial arts technique developed by the Israeli army \u2013 against another Jewish party member prominent in support of Corbyn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read Cook’s piece in its entirety here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

See the Al Jazeera series on the Israeli lobby here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Or this 05:27 video:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/damien.stone.102\/videos\/10158825163294012\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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