Open Letter to Chris Ward, MP for Brighton Kemptown

You Say You Share My Anger Over Gaza – If That’s True Then You Will Resign as Starmer’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, Bag Carrier & Fixer

UN says it still hasn't been able to distribute any aid in Gaza

Chris Ward is the Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, which was a Tory seat from 1950 until it went Labour in 1964 when Dennis Hobden won by a margin of 7 votes after 7 recounts.

This was the first time any Sussex seat had been won by Labour and it owed a great deal to the personality of the Labour candidate, Dennis Hobden who was a son of the working class. Hobden was the son of a train driver and worked most of his life in the Post Office.

In 1966 when Harold Wilson won a landslide victory by 98 seats Dennis only held on to Kemptown by 831 votes. In 1970 he was defeated by Andrew Bowden, the self-styled pensioners' champion. Bowden held the seat till 1997 when he disgraced himself after well founded allegations of having received a £5,000 cash bribe from Mohamed al-Fayed.

I knew Dennis when I was in the Labour Party in the 80s when he was considered on the left though it was hard to pigeonhole him. When a row blew up over a statement of the then councillor Richard Stanton who defended the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel as a legitimate target, it caused a storm amongst the Labour Right. Hobden was staunch in Richard’s support when others on the left, including Militant, were found wanting. Hobden was also a freemason!

In 2010 Simon Kirby won the seat for the Tories by 1,328 votes and in 2015 by 690 votes. In 2017 he was overwhelmed by the Corbyn surge when Lloyd Russell-Moyle overturned a small majority to win by nearly 10,000. The Labour Party in Brighton was the largest in the country.

An Israeli soldier in the world's most moral army looking for a baby to kill

Brighton was at the centre of the Corbyn movement. When the local District Labour Party held its AGM in July 2016, Momentum held a pre-meeting in Brighthelm Community Centre. It was the largest meeting I had ever seen at the Centre. People then moved on to the AGM at City College where the Left won all the officer posts by a margin of 2-1.

Unfortunately Corbyn had done nothing about Labour’s right-wing civil service. John Stolliday, the head of the Compliance Unit and Council leader Warren Morgan immediately moved to have the results cancelled on the basis of fabricated allegations of spitting.

Although Russell-Moyle was elected in 2017 and re-elected by over 8,000 in 2019 he proved a great disappointment, shifting from left to right as the political winds changed direction. As Bob Dylan noted, you don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows and Moyle was nothing if not a political weatherman.  An opportunist who was ultimately defeated by his own opportunism.

Gaza's landscape could be that of Nagasaki

The removal of Moyle in 2024 and the imposition of Chris Ward, the ex-Starmer aide and political lobbyist who worked for Hanbury Strategy, who had no discernible support in the local Labour Party, was an example of the dishonesty of the current Labour leadership. Hanbury Strategy specialised in lobbying for the gambling and fossil fuels industry.

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As Andy Winter wrote,  ‘can you imagine a less appropriate candidate for a seat in Brighton and Hove?’

Allegations from eight years ago have been made (against Moyle), from before he was an MP. The timing that these allegations have surfaced go well beyond suspicion. While ... they may be serious or they might have no substance whatsoever, it shows control-freakery of the worst kind by Starmer and his henchmen and women.

Ancient allegations against Moyle were cynically resurrected, having originally been rejected, thus enabling the leadership to have a pretext for suspending him. Similar behaviour by Jennie Formby, Corbyn’s General Secretarym in suspending Chris Williamson in 2019 met with Moyle’s approval. Literally Moyle was hoist by his own petard.

Chris Ward experenced a 7% swing against him and the Tory had a 14% swing against her as the Green candidate Elaine Hills came within a whisker of the Tories. As befits a former crony Ward was appointed Starmer’s PPS.

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I recently signed a petition to MPs including Chris Ward. Some weeks later I got an email from him telling me ‘how angry’ he was ‘at the frankly intolerable humanitarian situation in Gaza’.

The strange thing about his email is that not once did the word ‘genocide’ cross his lips. So I thought I would send him an email!

Dear Chris Ward,

You wrote (16 May) that

I share your anger and outrage at the frankly intolerable humanitarian situation in Gaza and much of the occupied territories’.

I am pleased to hear that we agree on so much because we didn’t last October when I wrote to you. You say that

Israel's decision to block aid into Gaza - and to effectively starve a civilian population that is already suffering terribly – is both cruel and completely indefensible.

                                    

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I agree. However I note that you avoid using the word ‘genocide’. Perhaps you can tell me what else is starvation other than an intention to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, which is the Geneva Convention definition of Genocide?

Words are cheap. What counts is what you don't say not what you do say.

Israel has been imposing a starvation blockade on Gaza since 2 March. Since 7 October it has waged a war on the Palestinians in Gaza whilst doing its best to prevent aid whilst lying to the contrary.

Moshe Feiglin, an ex-Likud MK's genocidal comments

At the start of Israel’s attack on Gaza Defence Minister Yoav Gallant declared that

‘I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed’ adding that ‘We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.’

It was not as if Israel’s leaders hid what their intentions were. Genocidal statements were made from Netanyahu down. Throughout this whole period you, Lammy and Starmer remained silent.

Law for Palestine has documented over 500 examples of genocidal statements. Israel's Ministers made explicit their desire to ethnically  cleanse and settle Gaza. For example Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said, on 28 January 2024 at a conference calling for the resettlement of Gaza:

We must establish settlements. We need security forces. We need to settle this land because it’s our land.

This despite the decision of the International Court of Justice that Israel’s occupation of Gaza was illegal. Gaza belongs to the Palestinians not Israel. When Russia made far more convincing claims to parts of Ukraine, with the agreement of the people of Crimea and the Donbass, Britain and Europe immediately slapped sanctions on Russia. Why the double standards?

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Even when aid was allowed in Israel did its best to stop it being distributed and we had the flour massacres when starving people, queuing for food, were murdered by Israel in cold blood. Even today, Israel is still blocking aid and the entry of aid lorries.

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Nothing Israel’s government says can be trusted. They are proven liars. They murdered 5 year old Hind Rajab after falsely assuring Red Crescent paramedics that they would be safe if they rescued her from her parent’s car where the rest of her family lay dead. When the paramedics reached Hind a tank opened fire killing them all.

Israel Deliberately Kills Kids - Hind Rajab's Murder Exposed As DELIBERATE

Sky News investigates slaughter of Palestinian family fleeing fighting

Israel’s lies about the murder of 15 Red Crescent workers are well known. Israel first claimed that the ambulances had approached ‘suspiciously’ without their lights on. When this was disproved by footage from a mobile phone found on one of the dead aid workers they switched to their usual lie -  they were members of Hamas. Yet this government has continued to take the word of Israel’s genocidal leaders and army on trust.

Lammy greeting Israel's No. 1 War Criminal

On Tuesday David Lammy criticised the ‘intolerable’ and ‘extremist’ Israeli blockade and offensive. Indeed he employed almost every adjective except the one that was most appropriate. Israel’s starvation blockade of Gaza is genocidal. Are you prepared to call Israel’s policy, which is the same as the policy of the Nazis in the Polish Jewish ghettos, a Genocide?

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I am not interested in how angry you are. I am more interested in what you intend to do. Lammy’s measures were pathetically inadequate – suspension of trade talks not trade. Nothing about halting arms supplies to continue the genocide. Token sanctions on settlers in the West Bank. All mouth and no trousers. Are  you prepared to speak out and demonstrate that your anger is more than a form of words?

I want to ask you a few questions, bearing in mind you are in a unique position to make a difference being the PPS to Starmer.

i.              Will you call for the immediate halt of all RAF flights overflying Gaza which provide intelligence to Israel’s killers? Will you call for the end of any military co-operation with the IDF?

ii.           Will you support and call for the prosecution of any British citizen who is found to have fought in Israel’s genocidal army?

iii.        Will you call for a complete end to the arms trade with Israel?

iv.        Will you make it a criminal offence to trade with the settlements? You say that ‘There also needs to be an end to Israeli settlement building.’ Good. Let’s impose sanctions on trade with them.

v.           Will you demand that the UK enforce the arrest warrants of the International Criminal Court  against Netanyahu and Gallant

          The MORONS who control Youtube removed this video because they said it breached their 'hate' policy.   It seems a video exposing the racism of Israeli school children's singing songs about how they hate and want to kill Arabs is the same as encouraging it.

vi.        Will you call for an end to the attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement and the libel that opposition to Zionism equals anti-Semitism?

vii.     Will you call for the Government to jettison the IHRA which equates opposition to genocide with anti-Semitism?

viii.  Will you call for sanctions on Israel as and until it becomes a state of its own citizens rather than an apartheid, Jewish Supremacist state where Arabs are subjects not citizens?

ix.        Will you also call for the removal of Hamas from the list of proscribed ‘terrorist’ organisations? It is clear that it is Israel not Hamas who are the terrorists. 

What is happening in Gaza is a continuation of the Nakba in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinian  refugees were driven from their homes to create a ‘Jewish’ state. Israel has recently invaded Syria and Lebanon in order to capture more territory without justification following the fall of Assad.

What is happening in Gaza is not a consequence of October 7 but a continuation of the Zionist project of ethnic cleansing and genocide that began in 1948. October 7 was no different from the slave rebellions and anti-colonial resistance of the past. As Omar Bartov, the Israeli holocaust scholar wrote in Infinite License:

'On January 12, 1904, the Herero people of German Southwest Africa—today’s Namibia—launched a series of attacks on scattered German farms in the territory... the German settlers who had begun to arrive in the late nineteenth century increasingly encroached on their grazing lands.

The rebels destroyed many of the farms and killed more than a hundred settlers, mostly sparing women and children. For the settlers the rebellion served as a final proof of the need to eradicate the Herero, whom they described as “baboons.” ...  the German governor appealed to Berlin, which sent some 10,000 soldiers. By August they had crushed the Herero fighters. In October the German commander, Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, issued what has come to be known as his Vernichtungsbefehl (extermination order) to those who remained:

.... Any Herero found inside the German frontier,... will be executed. I shall spare neither women nor children. Most of the Herero were shot or died of thirst and hunger in the desert to which they had been expelled. Several thousand were taken to forced labor camps....

Germany’s famous Vergangenheitsbewältigung  (coming to terms with or overcoming the past) was about the Holocaust, not long-forgotten colonial crimes. Only in 2021 did the German government officially apologize....

That remote genocide at the dawn of the twentieth century shares some remarkable similarities with the campaign of ethnic cleansing and annihilation prosecuted by Israel in Gaza. Israel saw the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, in much the same way that the Germans saw the Herero attack 119 years earlier: as confirmation that the militant group was utterly savage and barbaric, that resistance to Israeli occupation would always incline toward murder, and that Gaza’s Palestinian population as a whole should be removed from the moral universe of civilization.'

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Those who define Israel’s genocide, as Lammy did, in terms of fighting terrorism or Israel’s ‘right of self-defence’ are justifying what Israel has done. It is futile to ask Israel not to complete the Endlosung (Final Solution) of the Palestinians. Lammy and Starmer, by making October 7, rather than the Nakba, the reference point are justifying Netanyahu’s extermination of the Palestinians in exactly the same way as those who supported the genocide of the Herero.

There is no difference, apart from 120 years, between the German genocide of 1904 and the Zionist genocide of 2024. When Nissim Vaturi, the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, says that there are ‘no innocents' and that Gaza should be ‘burned now’ or when MK Galit Distel Atbaryan calls for ‘Erasing all of Gaza from the face of the earth.’ they are following in the footsteps of Von Trotha and Himmler.

When Israeli Channel 14 producer, Elad Barashi, posted on X:

‘Good morning, let there be a Shoa (Holocaust) in Gaza.’ and writes ‘I can't understand the people here in the State of Israel who don't want to fill Gaza with gas showers... or train cars... and finish this story! Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza.’

he is not an outlier. He is reflecting majority opinion among Israeli Jews.

When Israeli Jews were asked whether they supported or opposed the idea that Israel should allow the transfer of humanitarian aid, food and medicines, to Gaza residents, 68% of them said they were opposed to allowing in aid, even if Hamas and UNWRA were excluded from its distribution. 

The exterminationist mentality of Israel’s Jewish citizens is crystal clear. Israel is now echoing Nazi Germany’s treatment of the Jews. Israel is a settler colonial state with the facade of democracy. It is an ethnocracy and far from supporting its ‘right to exist’ we should be calling for its dismantlement in order that the Palestinians can live.

If your anger is genuine Chris Ward, given that Starmer is a ‘Zionist without qualification’ you have no choice but to resign as his PPS. It may be the one good thing you have done in your political life.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Greenstein 

In the 1930s the BBC Appeased and Even Attempted to Justify the Nazi Regime’s Anti-Semitism – Today It Loves Israel and Zionism - Has Anything Changed?

 The BBC Response to My Complaint of Bias & Genocide Denial was that it was ‘Abusive in Nature’& ‘Goes against our values’

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A week ago I made a Complaint to the BBC about their decision to withdraw Gaza – How To Survive a Warzone from BBC iPlayer. I also made some observations about their Zionist gatekeeper Raffi Berg and their ex-soap powder cum Pepsi salesman Tim Davie.

A few days ago I was sent an M.Phil dissertation on the BBC’s record during the first 6 years of the Nazi period. It doesn’t make pretty reading. Who would have thought that the BBC, which today appeases the Zionists on the grounds of ‘anti-Semitism’, was so sympathetic to the concerns of the Hitler regime?

When anti-Semitism was a genuine problem rather than a pretext for defending genocide, the BBC bent over backwards to placate the Nazi regime. It ignored their anti-Semitism. Indeed it justified it, branding Germany’s Jews a political threat rather than a religious group, which was what the Nazis were saying.

So when the BBC and the British Establishment parade their ‘anti-Semitism’ credentials today just bear in mind that when anti-Semitism was alive and kicking the BBC had no problem with it.

According to the BBC my complaint went against their ‘values’ and was abusive. Not only that but the ‘tone and language’ was ‘offensive’. Who would have guessed what snowflakes the BBC are.

This is my response.

BBC Complaints - Case number CAS-8047026-N0S3Z9

Dear BBC,

It seems that you have lost your judgement in the wake of the PR disaster that is Gaza – How To Survive a Warzone. Accusations of enabling genocide have touched a raw nerve. I only hope that you can see and smell the blood of the thousands of Palestinian children who your propaganda has helped to kill.

In your response (14 March) to my complaint about your persistent pro-Zionist bias you informed me that it was ‘abusive in nature’ and that ‘the tone and language used is offensive’ and that ‘the underlying message goes against our values’.

Perhaps you can explain for your viewers what your values are? Do they include balancing Israeli lies with their actions such as bombing tent encampments and the burning alive of Palestinian children?

Do your values include support for the torturing to death of doctors such as Dr Adnan al Bursh?

A good example of your bias is the headline ‘Palestinian doctor dies in Israeli prison’. What did he died of? COVID? Over eating?

How is it that a healthy man of 50 when he was arrested died soon after? Why has his body not been returned to his family? Has the BBC asked any of these questions? Or is the death in custody of Palestinian prisoners taken for granted by the BBC?

We are told that ‘No details were given on the cause of death, and the prison service said the incident was being investigated.’ The same prison service that had previously denied it even Dr Al-Bursh. Have you followed up on this so-called ‘investigation’?

The BBC refers to ‘Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry’ as if to pour doubt on their claim that 496 health workers have been killed by Israel. Do you preface Israeli claims with ‘the Likud-run government’. Hamas happens to have been elected to govern Gaza.

Sky News however did investigate and they reported that:

"In mid-April 2024, Dr Adnan Al-Bursh arrived at Section 23 in Ofer Prison. The prison guards brought Dr Adnan Al-Bursh into the section in a deplorable state. He had clearly been assaulted with injuries around his body. He was naked in the lower part of his body.

"The prison guards threw him in the middle of the yard and left him there. Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was unable to stand up. One of the prisoners helped him and accompanied him to one of the rooms.

He died soon after. The death of Dr Bursh was a prima facie case of murder yet the BBC displayed no interest in the circumstances or causes of the death of a famous orthopaedic surgeon. Instead it quoted the meaningless warblings of a Biden Administration spokesperson.

Did Netanyahu’s fan and ex-CIA man at BBC News, Raffi Berg, deem that the story did not fit with your image of Israel as ‘the only democracy in the Middle East?’

Sky News - The Murder of 5 year old Hind al Rajab and the Paramedics Sent to Rescue Her

Let us take another example of BBC Censorship by omission, the murder of 5 year old Hind al Rajab, the little girl who was blown up by an Israeli tank along with the ambulance crew that was sent to rescue her. Again Sky News covered her death in detail and again Raffi Berg decided to ignore it.

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The reality is that BBC News coverage is dictated by a Zionist zealot, Raffi Berg and you call this ‘balance’. It is not surprising that you decided that my complaint ‘will not be circulated to our colleagues for consideration or further reply.’ What point is there in disturbing their consciences when it is clear that they have none?

It seems that you took offence at my language. Who would have guessed that the BBC’s genocide supporters have hurt feelings? I suspect that Eichmann and Hitler too felt hard done by. However the death of thousands of Palestinian children does not seem to move you.

Since October 7 the Government has supported Genocide in Gaza whilst denying it was taking place. Naturally the BBC has fallen in line. Instead of admitting you are a state propaganda organisation you pretend that you are independent and your coverage ‘balanced’.

I plead guilty to being insensitive to your feelings. Faced with Israel’s starvation of Gaza, its bombing of hospitals (because they are all Hamas), its torture camps and rapes, it is not a difficult decision given your heroic efforts at news management.

In nearly all cases of genocide, the killers claim they are acting in self-defence. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander based his case against genocide on the claim that his forces were acting in self-defence. Mladic was convicted of genocide and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal. Similarly with the Armenian genocide. The Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry claimed that

Ottoman policy of removing the Armenians from militarily sensitive zones to the inner parts of the country must be seen as a justified measure of self-defense not genocidal action

The BBC not unnaturally has adopted the Zionist narrative.

You ignored a petition from 700+ Jewish anti-racists and a thousand media commentators such as Gary Lineker. Who are they compared to the voice of 45 Racist Jews?

Jews who are anti-racist and anti-Zionist are invisible to the BBC because in your eyes we aren’t Jewish. To be Jewish in the eyes of the Establishment you have to be a supporter of Zionism. I do not recall a single BBC programme on Jewish anti-Zionism or which has acknowledged that one-third of British Jews refuse to define themselves as Zionists.

Jews in Britain are the moral alibi for the crimes of imperialism. It is far better to pretend to be defending a ‘Jewish’ state than admitting it’s about oil, resources and strategic interests. At least Trump is honest when he declares that he wants to plunder other countries.

Unlike you most British people are not desiccated pen pushers. You reach for your ‘guidelines’ much like a drunk leans on a lamppost, for support rather than illumination.

Even the BBC’s own journalists protest at the censorship

There are of course genuine journalists at the BBC who are outraged at your coverage. Owen Jones quotes from numerous journalists at the BBC but I suspect that those handling complaints are selected for their slow-witted viciousness to say nothing of their stupidity.

Censorship applies not only to what you publish but also what you don’t publish. In the case of Ukraine the BBC doesn’t face such dilemmas. It carries only Zelensky’s version of events.

Israel is different because it is a western settler-colonial occupation. Indigenous people are, by definition, sub-human terrorists. When the BBC reports from Palestine it takes care not to use the word Occupied and prefers euphemisms such as Disputed Territories.

Israel’s defence of its land theft is akin to a burglar claiming title to the goods he’s just stolen, though on a much grander scale.

Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel has called the BBC out for refusing to reach “reasonable, evidence-based conclusions” over Israel’s genocide in Gaza. She suggested that you have become “a vehicle in informational warfare”. That’s why she resigned in 2024.

Impartiality has failed if its key method is to constantly balance “both sides” of a story as equally true. A news outlet that refuses to come to conclusions becomes a vehicle in informational warfare

We have passed the point at which Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity are debatable. There’s more than enough evidence – from Palestinians on the ground, aid organisations; legal bodies – to come to coverage-shaping conclusions around what Israel has done.

In the case of Ukraine there is no balance. The BBC reached its conclusions that Russia was in the wrong on day one of the invasion but in the case of Israel you prefer to wait for eternity as you pretend that it is about Hamas rather than ethnic cleansing.

Russia’s version of events, that the promises made to Gorbachev in 1991 about NATO expansion were broken are never put even though they are documented in the US’s own National Security Archives.

Imagine if Russia had destroyed or bombed every Ukrainian hospital in order to eradicate terrorists. Would that explanation be treated with respect by the BBC? BBC balance is a dishonest attempt to treat right and wrong, good and evil, genocide and peace as equals.

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Martin Luther King made the same point when he said that “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”

There is no such thing as neutrality. You either support genocide or you oppose it. The fact that the BBC refuses even to mention the word is proof enough as to where you stand.

I realise that the scribe who wrote to me may take offence if called a liar so I’ll suggest that you are being economical with the truth. The BBC coverage of Gaza is an extension of the Foreign Office’s policy objectives.

That brilliant film on Gaza’s children, with Abdullah being a natural presenter, was scrapped because the foul Danny Cohen, Baroness Deech’s trollope of a daughter, Sarah, Oberman and all the other political dwarfs were considered more important than the thousands of people, Jews included, who bombarded you with complaints.

How the BBC Appeased Hitler and either Ignored or Justified Nazi Anti-Semitism

I’ve just read a fascinating M. Phil Dissertation by Guy Raz of Cambridge University. It’s titled ‘The BBC and Appeasement: Broadcast Coverage of Nazi Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1938’. In his Introduction Raz writes:

‘Between 1933 and 1938, Nazi Germany engaged in the systematic persecution of its Jewish community with acts of increasing intensity. One would, therefore, expect the BBC to have reported extensively on these developments considering its association with hard-nosed journalism and critical news broadcasting. That this was not the case is in part explicable through the extent to which Broadcasting House, in direct and independent compliance with the diplomatic aims of the Foreign Office, was party to and a partner in the application of the policy of appeasement. There was a major discrepancy between the BBC's knowledge of what was happening in Nazi Germany and the Corporation's effort to disseminate that knowledge to any great extent. 'Negative' news about Nazi Germany was carefully controlled by the BBC during this period in order to ensure that 'sensitive' information was not widely distributed for public consumption.’

This could have been written, word for word, about your coverage of Israel today. When anti-Semitism was a matter of life and death, when Jews were being beaten, impoverished and put in Nazi concentration camps the BBC did not want to know.

John Pilger doesn't hold back: "The BBC is and has long been the most refined propaganda service in the world." pic.twitter.com/6mViFKnG4Z

— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) December 9, 2017

But when ‘anti-Semitism’ is a propaganda tool weaponised to justify apartheid and genocide the BBC is suddenly opposed to it. You have even installed an Israeli spy, Raffi Berg, as a Zionist gatekeeper in charge of the news. As John Pilger said, the BBC is the world’s most sophisticated propaganda machine.

There were 3 major anti-Semitic mileposts between 1933 and 1939 in Germany. The first was the Boycott of Jewish Shops on 1 April 1933. The second was the passage in September 1935 of the Nuremberg Laws which stripped German Jews of citizenship (something the Zionists welcomed) and the third was Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom of 10-11 November 1938 when most synagaogues were burnt to the ground, over 100 Jews killed and 30,000 thrown into concentration camps. How did the BBC cover this? Guy Raz writes:

the April boycott was discussed in two non-news bulletins but the tone of the discussion preferred to minimize the extent of the boycott. The Nuremberg decrees were mentioned in one, brief news bulletin lasting no more than twenty seconds and devoted primarily to the Memel dispute.

Kristallnacht was also mentioned in a news bulletin, without commentary and with few details.

The Nuremberg Laws were described by Gerard Reitlinger as ‘‘the most murderous legislative instrument known to European history’ yet the BBC gave them 20 seconds in a news bulletin. Kristallnacht, the pogrom that signalled Nazi intentions towards the Jews was mentioned without comment.

When anti-Semitism was a reality the BBC stood with the racists and anti-Semites? Why? Because the BBC was born in the womb of the British Establishment and shares their values. Raz tells us that

News deemed 'negative', defined as such by the Foreign Office ... was to be avoided after 1936. What is astonishing, however, was just how little information about anti-Jewish persecution was dispensed for broadcast before this time - three years after the introduction of anti-Semitism as official policy in Germany. Even fewer reports about anti-Jewish persecution would be broadcast after 1936.

When Hitler was preparing the ground for the expulsion and eventual extermination of Europe’s Jews, the BBC was silent. But today when ‘anti-Semitism’ is a mere prejudice the BBC is all over it like a rash.

No doubt the BBC’s famous ‘balance’ was in operation then too. It balanced between the British government and Hitler. Jews were out of the equation altogether just like the Palestinians are today.

 ‘the Corporation saw anti-Jewish persecution as secondary to other forms of Nazi repression, most notably, anti-Church persecution’.

Christians were not discriminated against as Christians.

‘When information about anti-Jewish repression reached the airwaves, the tone of the broadcast almost always implied that Jews, along with Marxists and Social Democrats, constituted a political opposition.’

The idea that religion is a political ideology or movement is not new. Geert Wilders, the fascist leader of Netherland’s Party for Freedom (PVV) says exactly the same about Islam today:

Islam is an ideology aiming for world domination rather than a religion. It demands that the state be regulated according to Islamic law.

If Wilders weren’t so ignorant, he would know that the same is true of all religions. The Israeli Right, which controls Israel’s government, also wants to see Israeli civil law replaced by Halacha, Jewish law.

Some of the worst genocidal states during the Holocaust were the Christian ethno states, Romania, Slovakia and Croatia. Every religion has those who believe that their religion is supreme. Guy Raz said:

what is surprising was the extent to which the Corporation 'spiritually surrendered' to Nazi conceptions of race by adopting some of the language of German racialism.

This is no surprise. Racism is as English as buttered toast and the BBC is nothing if not a reflection of ruling class Englishness.

Broadcasts also often implied that Jews were partially responsible for the increase in anti-Semitic persecution.

This was particularly evident during the Holocaust. Hungary was the last country in Europe with a large Jewish population when the Nazis invaded on 19 March 1944. Robert Philpot wrote about how the BBC had consistently avoided the topic of its Jews in its wartime broadcasts to Hungary, failing to warn that a Nazi invasion would mean deportations and death.

Prof. Carlile Macartney was a wartime adviser to the BBC and the Foreign Office. He proposed that the BBC needed to take into account the anti-Semitism of the Hungarian populace and avoid mentioning Jews altogether. His advice was a reaction to ‘continuing concerns that the Hungarian Service was, in fact, too associated with Jews.’ A December 1939 internal BBC memo, spoke of the criticism the corporation had received that the service’s announcers had “Jewish-sounding voices” and that its six Hungarian staff were “purely or preponderantly Jewish.”

A further memo 18 months later spoke of how “One of the main criticisms of our broadcasts has been on the ground of Jewish accents.” It was necessary to bring in “a nucleus of Aryan voices.”

Jean Seaton, in her article ‘The BBC and the Holocaust’ states that

'The BBC displayed both before and during the war, views and decisions that were quite simply anti-Semitic.'

On the eve of the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria, its founder and General Manager Lord Reith

assured the German foreign minister that the 'BBC was not anti-Nazi' after von Ribbentrop suggested otherwise.

Today the BBC has exchanged its respect for Nazism for adulation of Zionism. Raz observed that the BBC went out of its way to portray Hitler in a positive light. For example the destruction of Jewish and ‘degenerate’ art found fulsome support in the BBC.

When his policies seemed to defy rationality, like the destruction of 'degenerate artwork', reports often came to his defense. ‘At least he [Hitler] honours art to the extent of believing that its misuse can encompass the cultural destruction of a people; and equally that... it can be the greatest agent in national regeneration,' said one art review.

The BBC’s most disgraceful decision was over who should represent them at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Harold Abrahams, a gold medalist in the 1924 Olympics, ‘was also the Corporation's most popular and widely respected sports commentator.’’

There was just one problem. Abrahams was Jewish and for 3 months ‘executives debated on the prudence of sending Abrahams to Berlin as the BBC's representative..’ the Director of Broadcasting wrote to the Director of Programming that

You will remember that at a Programme Board meeting in the late autumn we discussed the advisability of using Mr. Harold Abrahams as our commentator at the Olympic Games. It was then felt that while we were not prejudiced against him for racial reasons, it might be advisable to postpone a final decision as to his employment by us until nearer the time, when we should be able to see the state of feeling in Germany...

The Controller of Public Relations wrote:

Abrahams is a Jew. He is our best commentator on athletics. The question arises as to whether or not we should do this [label Abrahams as a commentator]. We all regard the German action against the Jews as quite irrational and intolerable and on that score we ought not to hesitate, but should we, as between one broadcaster and another, put aside all views of this kind and take the line that however irrational we regard another country's attitude to be it would be discourteous to send a Jew commentator to a country where Jews are taboo?

Just savour that for a moment – it would be discourteous to send a Jewish commentator to a country where Jews are taboo. Can anything better sum up the BBC’s historic attitude to racism?

From Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in the 40s to Genocide in the 2020s the BBC has never let principle stand in the way of what is in the best interests of the British ruling class.

The committee's decided against sending Abrahams ('it would be definitely impolitic for us to send Abrahams as our official commentator') illustrates the cowardly nature of the BBC. It is in this light that the decision to pull the film on Gaza should be seen. It has nothing to do with ‘terrorism’ or ‘anti-Semitism’. It is simply a continuation of the BBC’s loyalty to British Foreign Policy.

This and this alone explains the abysmal, biased coverage of Genocide in Gaza. Indeed the BBC refuses to even use the word ‘Genocide’ thus taking the position of the very genocide deniers that it decried in Srebenica where 8,000 not half a million have died.

Israel developed its own atrocity propaganda surrounding October 7 which mirrored British atrocity propaganda in WW1 when German troops were accused of bayoneting Belgian babies. The BBC has carried it without once questioning it.

Defense minister confirms army orders to kill Israelis on 7 October

On October 7 Israel put into operation the Hannibal Directive which decrees that it's better to kill a captured Israeli rather than allow them to be exchanged later for Palestinian hostages.  The Zionist love of killing Palestinians outweighed their concern for their own citizens.  which decrees that it’s better to kill a captured Israeli than allow them to be exchanged later for Palestinian hostages. The Zionist love of killing Palestinians outweighed their concern for their own citizens.

On 7 July 2024 Ha'aretz reported that the IDF used the Hannibal Directive to prevent Hamas taking Israeli soldiers captive. It later turned out that the Directive was also used to prevent the capture of civilians. There were many such similar stories in the Israeli press.

Hannibal Doctrine which decrees that it’s better to kill a captured Israeli than allow them to be exchanged later for Palestinian hostages. The Zionist love of killing Palestinians outweighed their concern for their own citizens.

Hannibal Doctrine which decrees that it’s better to kill a captured Israeli than allow them to be exchanged later for Palestinian hostages. The Zionist love of killing Palestinians outweighed their concern for their own citizens.

On 7 July 2024 Ha’aretz reported that the IDF used the Hannibal Directive to prevent Hamas taking Israeli soldiers captive. It later turns out that the Directive was also used to prevent the capture of civilians. There were many such similar stories in the Israeli press.

On 7 July 2024 Ha’aretz reported that the IDF used the Hannibal Directive to prevent Hamas taking Israeli soldiers captive. It later turns out that the Directive was also used to prevent the capture of civilians. There were many such similar stories in the Israeli press.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ran a story ‘Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the 'Hannibal Directive' but not the BBC. There isn’t one mention of the Hannibal Directive on the BBC’s website. The BBC is STILL propagating Israeli lies that Hamas operatives slaughtered Israelis on October 7 when the truth is that the majority of Israeli civilians were killed by the IDF.

Take another story, which is connected with the BBC pulling Gaza – How To Survive a Warzone. The killing of Palestinian children. There is every reason to believe that the high number of Palestinian children killed is a consequence of their being deliberately targeted.

Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, who runs the Bnei Moshe Yeshivah in Jaffa has, like other rabbis, openly advocated for the murder of Palestinian children because they represent the future generation of Palestinian fighters. It is an argument that Himmler made about Jewish children:

“For I did not consider myself justified in exterminating the men—in other words, killing them or having them killed—and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our children and grandchildren.

When complaints were made to the Israeli Police, who are happy to raid Palestinian bookshops on a whim, they recommended that Mali not be prosecuted. Has the BBC covered this story or related it to what is happening in Gaza? Of course not.

The BBC was happy to carry the allegations of Netanyahu that the Bibas children were killed by Hamas with their bare hands rather than that they were killed by Israeli bombing. The BBC gives full unchallenged coverage to any Israeli lie.

There is no evidence to support Israel’s allegations and there is no medical evidence either. Hamas was not given the chance of rebutting Netanyahu’s lies.

When it comes to documented proof of Israel’s murder of Palestinian children the BBC goes silent and withdraws the only film that allowed Palestinian children to express themselves. When Zionists make demands the BBC rushes to demonstrate their fealty to the genocidaires.

The UN has just released a Report that Israel’s systemic attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to “genocidal acts”, and that the Israeli military have used sexual violence as a weapon of war to “dominate and destroy the Palestinian people”.

Has the BBC reported on this or investigated? Well it did lead with Israel’s denials on BBC Radio 4 News. When a Russian atrocity is announced does the BBC lead with Russia’s denials? To call the BBC genocide enablers would be an understatement.

The BBC’s silence and refusal to accurately report the multiple accounts of Israeli torture of Palestinian health care workers and their murder makes it complicit in that murder. Because if the BBC and other western media were calling out these war crimes Israel would not feel that it had impunity to do whatever it wants.

The BBC has repeatedly carried Israel’s atrocity propaganda about Hamas rapes on October 7, despite there being no forensic evidence and despite Israeli prosecutor Moran Gaz saying that she has no cases or victims.

In an interview with Ynet, Moran said that the prosecutors are not filing a case on sexual assault or rape by Hamas militants as her department has failed to find any evidence despite having over fourteen months to investigate the claims.

"In the end, we don’t have any complainants. What was presented in the media compared to what will eventually come together will be entirely different…" Moran said.

However the BBC has been reluctant to publicise the well documented examples of Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women. Rape of indigenous people is a well established colonial tradition.

An Israeli soldier who raped a Palestinian prisoner alongside other soldiers appeared on Israeli channel 14 to defend his unit that committed the rape. The incident sparked outrage as it was filmed on CCTV cameras and spread to the media.

The incident happened in the Sde Teiman… pic.twitter.com/jL7qME3mDn

— red. (@redstreamnet) August 8, 2024

The verified Israeli rape of Palestinian men, with the perpetrators appearing on Israel’s Channel 14 boasting of their deeds, hasn’t merited coverage on BBC News or any investigative programme. Raffi Berg instead commissioned ‘We will dance again’ since the focus must always be on the settlers never the colonised.

There is also Israel’s routine torture of prisoners. Nearly all those released have been in a shocking physical condition and showing signs of torture compared to Hamas’s Israeli prisoners.

The deliberate starving of Palestinian prisoners began under Israel’s neo-Nazi Minister of Police, the Kahanist Ben Gvir who openly proclaimed the policy. The BBC has never provided any context to Israel’s policy of torturing Palestinian prisoners.

Whereas Israeli hostages kiss their captors Palestinian hostages show no affection for their guards. One Zionist suggested to me that Israeli hostages were suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. I asked why it was that Palestinian prisoners don’t suffer from this malady!

Israeli Hostage’s Hamas Kiss-Fest Leaves IDF Red-Faced

I refer particularly to the torture of the Director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who told a legal representative of “the torture and abuse” he was subjected to since being detained by Israeli occupation forces 47 days ago.

The BBC refrained from publicising what has happened to Dr Safiya. One wonders what its response would be if it had been Hamas that had been torturing an Israeli doctor?

"A pure soldier showcases the quality football that was made with hard work after prolonged fighting in the Whores' Strip."

This is the caption written for an image shared on a prominent Israeli settlers' Telegram channel. The image shows an Israeli soldier stepping on the… pic.twitter.com/m9bVKLAvLe

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 24, 2025

Berlin's Jewish Hospital

The destruction of this and other hospitals was a war crime. To capture and torture doctors is a practice that even the Nazis refrained from. The only Jewish communal building that survived untouched in Berlin till 1945 was the Jewish Hospital. Israel has outdone the Nazis as no hospital in Gaza has escaped unscathed.

The BBC refuses to use the term ‘genocide’ despite the overwhelming evidence. For example Israeli ministers like Nissim Vaturi, the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, have called for all adult men in Gaza to be killed. That sounds a bit like genocide but if you don’t report it then you don’t have to decide.

There is also the small matter of the mass graves which are being uncovered in Gaza but I wouldn’t want to disturb your conscience any further. You have a lot weighing it down as it is.

I wouldn’t expect the BBC to cover the case of an Israeli soldier playing football with the skull of a Palestinian man. After all this is simply good old colonial fun and games.

I might expect the BBC to carry prominently the story of Israel’s denial of food and fuel aid to Gaza and how babies have frozen to death. However the silence of the BBC on this as on so much else is deafening. There are only some voices that the BBC can hear. See

A Dagger To The Heart’: BBC Credibility Nosedives Even Further