Mapping the BBC’s promotion of partisan maps - by Hadar Sela

...The BBC is obliged to provide its audiences with accurate and impartial information which will enhance their “awareness and understanding of international issues”. By continually – and exclusively – promoting the partisan narrative of political NGOs such as B’Tselem as ‘fact’ the BBC fails to meet that obligation and compromises its reputation for impartiality by abandoning journalism in favour of activism.

Hadar Sela..
BBC Watch..
05 February '17..

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Both versions of that map (one of which includes a ‘zoom in’ view of Jerusalem) are credited to the foreign funded political NGO B’Tselem which – despite its engagement in lawfare against Israel and its membership in a coalition of NGOs supporting BDS – is one of the NGOs most consistently quoted and promoted by the BBC in its supposedly impartial reporting on Israel and the Palestinians.

This of course is not the first time that the corporation has promoted a politically partisan map produced by B’Tselem.

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