Revisiting the BBC’s ‘explanation’ of the current wave of terror - by Hadar Sela

...Subsequent reporting has not produced any further examination of the issue of religious ideology as a component in motivation for terrorism...Neither has there been any further examination since October of the role played by social media in inciting the violence and the topic of incitement from official sources continues to remain out-of-bounds as far as the BBC is concerned....BBC audiences, however, continue to be told that the violence is attributable to the “failure of the Middle East peace process”.

Hadar Sela..
BBC Watch..
02 March '16..

Back in October 2015 the BBC News website produced a much amended and problematic backgrounder titled “Is Palestinian-Israeli violence being driven by social media?”. As was noted here at the time, readers were not provided with substantial answers to the question asked in the headline and the issue of the spread of incitement and glorification of terrorism on social media accounts run by official Palestinian Authority bodies and Fatah was not addressed at all.backgrounder

That article included the following statements:

“Israel says the Palestinian leadership is inciting attacks, and that the attackers are driven not by political frustration but by a radical religious ideology which opposes Israel’s very existence.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has blamed “acts of aggression” by the Israeli authorities and Jewish settlers for the latest violence.”

Subsequent reporting has not produced any further examination of the issue of religious ideology as a component in motivation for terrorism and in the months since that article was published the BBC has adopted a standard ‘explanation’ for the ongoing wave of violence which confines itself to political factors:

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