Campaign Against BBC Panorama's Bias Programme About Jerusalem

On Monday 18 January 2010, Panorama,  aired  a programme about Jerusalem that distorted Jewish history and Jewish rights to Jerusalem while promoting a one-sided and biased agenda.

The programme can be found on the following website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pznkh

Our recent speaker Robin Shephard made the following comment about the programme on his website ( http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/prime-time-bbc-documentary-on-jerusalem-an-anatomy-of-bias-and-distortion/)

"Rarely will you get a clearer insight into the flagrant institutional bias inside the world’s most powerful media outlet than this. The slipperiness of the tactics employed, the unabashed censorship of vital historical context, and the blatant pursuit of a political agenda constituted a lesson in the techniques of modern day propaganda. It was something to behold."

Robin concluded that:

"Obviously the issue of Jerusalem excites passions inside Israel and outside it. Reasonable people can disagree on it. There are many shades of opinion to be assessed. And there is no reason why a BBC documentary should not reflect that. The problem is that the documentary does not reflect that reality at all.

Every Jewish step in East Jerusalam is presented as wrong and dangerous. All the important context has been removed. A clear ideological agenda has been pushed at the expense of basic standards of fair reporting.

Welcome to the world of the BBC. And welcome to yet another illustration of the slippery path to the deligitimisation of the world’s only Jewish state."

The ZCC calls on its members and supporters to let the BBC know that this kind of anti-Israel programming is unacceptable.

To make a complaint to the BBC:
 

Phone: 03700 100 222*

Write: BBC Complaints,
PO Box 1922
Glasgow G2 3WT

Email:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/