Friday, February 3, 2017

Can you imagine? BBC silent as UNESCO resolutions come home to roost - by Hadar Sela

...Unsurprisingly, the self-styled ‘standard-setter for international journalism’ which at the time ignored Palestinian praise of the resolutions for erasing Jewish history – preferring instead to promote Saeb Erekat’s claim that ‘the resolution was aimed “at reaffirming the importance of Jerusalem for the three monotheistic religions”’ – has not reported this story.

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

Back in October 2016 the BBC produced three reports relating to two resolutions passed by UNESCO.

Israel freezes UNESCO ties for ‘denying Jewish holy sites’discussed here

UNESCO passes contentious Jerusalem resolutiondiscussed here

Jerusalem reference found on ancient wine ledgerdiscussed here

As was noted here at the time:

“And yet again, the context of the role of this document in the long-standing Palestinian campaign to erase Jewish heritage and history as part of the tactical delegitimisation of Israel was erased from audience view. Readers were not informed that both the PA’s ruling party Fatah and Hamas lauded the UNESCO resolution’s denial of Jewish history.”

Fast forward to late January 2017 and a speech made by the new UN Secretary General in honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In his address, Mr Guterres said:

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