{"id":6674,"date":"2010-08-09T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2010-08-03T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T20:00:46","slug":"press-tv-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/08\/press-tv-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Press TV Under Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain Cannot Handle the Truth <\/em><\/p>\n

To tell the truth about Israeli barbarism is a breach of impartiality. <\/strong>The Guardian<\/a> and the Jewish Chronicle<\/a> reported today [3 Aug 2010] that Ofcom, the UK broadcasting standards body, has ruled that Iranian-backed Press TV\u2019s coverage of the Gaza flotilla incident breached guidelines on impartiality.<\/p>\n

You ask yourself why?<\/p>\n

Their coverage of the Flotilla wasn\u2019t pro-Israeli enough.<\/p>\n

The regulator said the station had not shown due impartiality during a broadcast on June 5th which dealt exclusively with the events surrounding the interception by Israeli commandos of the pro-Palestinian convoy off the coast of Gaza.<\/p>\n

The Jewish Chronicle reports that During an episode of a current affairs show Remembering Palestine, presenter Lauren Booth discussed the flotilla with studio guests and participants of the convoy. Ofcom said the show had started with \u201ca pro-Palestinian song set to anti-Israeli\/pro-Palestinian imagery\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ofcom is absolutely right,\u00a0 Booth should have thought about it, and played Hava Nagila along with the images of Israel executing 9 peace activists in International waters.\u00a0 Such an act would bring to light the cheerful aspect in Israeli murderous zeal. It would also cement the cultural continuum between the IDF\u2019s crimes and Jewish cultural heritage.<\/p>\n

The watchdog said comments made by Ms Booth and her guests \u201ccould be interpreted as being highly critical of the actions of the Israeli government and its military forces\u201d.\u00a0 The comments included: Lauren Booth saying: \u201cIsraeli commandos\u2026committed a massacre of innocent civilians sailing aid ships to the besieged Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n

I am slightly puzzled\u00a0 here, how would Ofcom suggest to call a deliberate execution of civilians in the middle of the night? Is there a better word in English to describe the event?<\/p>\n

Booth also said \u201cThis was obviously a barbarous attack on civilians. One thing is certain: As Turkey buries its murdered citizens\u2026the brave men and women on those ships, in one move, have shifted world opinion against Israeli apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, Booth was very observant, just five days after the Israeli massacre she gathered that the world has changed. Now we all see Israel and its supporters for what they are.\u00a0 I guess that the video above shows clearly a deliberate murderous act. I think that Ofcom should visit Youtube, they can also wait for the results of the UN fact finding mission into Israel’s murdering on the Mavi Marmara.<\/p>\n

On a further note, I just wonder, if\u00a0 the British press is not allowed to tell the truth about Israel, who exactly is going to stop Israel from using its nuclear bombs?\u00a0 How should we protest against Israeli war crimes?\u00a0\u00a0 Should we count on the Conservative Friends of Israel to do the job?\u00a0\u00a0 Or even\u00a0 Kenneth\u00a0 Clark \u00a0who under the Israeli Lobby pressure moved quickly to block war crimes prosecutions in the UK<\/a> so \u201cThe likes of Henry Kissinger, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak could slip a little easier\u201d into the UK.<\/p>\n

I would use this opportunity to say thanks for Press TV and Lauren Booth for being there. I am certain, that such publicity will bring many more viewers to the one and only broadcaster in the UK that tells the truth about Israeli crimes and the Israeli Lobby<\/a> in Britain.<\/p>\n

GO TO ORIGINAL \u2013 GILAD.CO.UK<\/a><\/p>\n

Join the BDS-Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation, the apartheid wall, and its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people: DON’T BUY<\/strong><\/span> products whose BARCODE<\/strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> 729<\/strong><\/span>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

7 2 9: BOYCOTT!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle reported today [3 Aug 2010] that Ofcom, the UK broadcasting standards body, has ruled that Iranian-backed Press TV\u2019s coverage of the Gaza flotilla incident breached guidelines on impartiality\u2026. Ofcom said the show had started with \u201ca pro-Palestinian song set to anti-Israeli\/pro-Palestinian imagery\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}