Israel/Palestine,  Media

“Anti-Israel Bias” In a Most Surprising Place

Have a read of these passages:

Forty years on, Israel has settled more than 400,000 people on land occupied in 1967, in defiance of everyone’s interpretation of international law except its own.

The Israeli generals, mainly hugely self-confident sabras in their late 30s and early 40s, had been training to finish the unfinished business of 1948 for most of their careers.

When the messianic moment of victory combined with Zionism’s innate instinct to push out the frontier, the result was the settlement movement. 

These are the very passages that are the subject of the BBC Trust ruling. But they’re not on the BBC: at least not any more. 

They’re from The JC.

It looks rather as if Jeremy Bowen cut and pasted his JC article into his BBC article. And that’s when the fun started…