One year into Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Netanyahu decided to launch a full on ground invasion in Lebanon. Iran finally retaliated against the mindless colonial power. Unsurprisingly, as usual, the BBC failed miserably in reporting on the realities of the situation.
As the Canary previously reported, Israel’s colonial government has consistently rejected or undermined peace efforts (as it has historically), and has only escalated the conflict further afield. It has assassinated people in the Iranian consulate in Syria, in Iran, and in Lebanon.
Iran has shown a lot of restraint, according to experts. But it has finally responded to Israel’s attempts to escalate hostilities in the region. Targeting military and intelligence facilities, it has reportedly killed one civilian – a Palestinian. And this is in spite of Israel placing some of those facilities in densely-populated civilian areas.
Blowback into Israel, Iran style
Israel’s own X account tweeted a video of Iran’s rockets with the caption
every single one of these is meant to kill
What the fuck do they think their carpet bombing in Gaza has been achieving? Wiping the memory of everyone who watches a child get blown to pieces?
I’ll tell you what really isn’t normal. The level of supremacist narcissism and hypocrisy it takes to post this with a straight face. INSANE.
Like what are the THOUSANDS of IOF bombs meant to do, heal children? https://t.co/QQWByADjH3— Alexi Murdoch 🍉🪁 (@aleximurdoch) October 1, 2024
You’ve dropped more bombs on Gaza than London, Dresden and Hamburg combined during WW2. Killed tens of thousands of innocent people. Starved and displaced a majority of the population. Ending your genocide would have prevented this. https://t.co/jMvEsyrTzA
— Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy) October 1, 2024
But as usual, the BBC has lapped it up.
Government sponsored propaganda
The BBC was shameless in its attempts to report on the escalation by Israel – if we can even call them attempts:
You can’t even tell in the first headline that Israel is the one bombing Lebanon. The contrast in headlines is unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/9b1UFeQluI
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) October 1, 2024
media setting the narrative on the orders of those who actually run the world
— Samarth K (@SamarthKagdiyal) October 2, 2024
This isn’t journalism. It’s narrative engineering. From Gaza to Lebanon, it’s a crime scene cover-up. When the media chooses silence over truth, they’re no longer journalists—they’re accomplices.
— Ghida Fakhry (@ghida_fakhry) October 1, 2024
The @BBCWorld is such a bastion of journalistic integrity 🤮 https://t.co/qXX3fLV8Dh
— Anti-Fascist 🇵🇸 Free Palestine (@antifascist61) October 2, 2024
Cognitive dissonance
The racist double standards are clear for everyone to see. Blow up a majority Muslim country and you’re defending yourself. Blow up a military base that has been use as a command centre to commit genocide for a year, and it’s terrorism:
Embarrassing to see our nation’s pathetic media and politicians completely captured by the Israelis. What do ‘patriots’ have to say about this? https://t.co/ZZyn70Yfy5
— Burford Brown Munde (@BasitAsif) October 2, 2024
The Western media’s complicity in covering up Israel’s carnage in the Middle East will be studied for generations https://t.co/qCXbD2UM9A
— Youssef Kobo (@Youssef_Kobo) October 2, 2024
What happened to the hostages? We’re presuming they have been secretly transferred to Lebanon via secret underground tunnels.
As the Canary has previously reported, western media outlets have continuously published coverage dripping in bias – and by extension, complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
When Israeli soldiers killed six-year-old Hind Rajab and her family, the appalling Western establishment media spin was plain for all to see:
Oh my goodness. This is terrible & irresponsible reporting from BBC News World. Innocent & defenceless 6 year old girl Hind Rajab was not ‘found dead’ in Gaza. She was brutally killed by the Israeli military. https://t.co/X0x3sCpBnv
— Professor Ahmed Hankir (@ahmedhankir) February 11, 2024
Similarly, when the IDF brutally murdered an autistic man with Down’s syndrome – with a combat dog – the BBC, using all of their editorial wisdom, whitewashed it with the headline:
The lonely death of Gaza man with Down’s syndrome
Turning tables on Israel
Now that Iran have retaliated against a genocidal regime, the BBC appears to have rolled out training on how to use the active voice. Seeing as though it suddenly fits their corporate capitalist (and clearly Zionist) narrative:
curious how they understand how to write headlines all of a sudden
— Angelica Reed (@Angelica_Reed1) October 2, 2024
Oh wait, maybe not – why name names when you can give the abhorrent genocidal perpetrators a voice instead?
#BBC uses quote to avoid saying Israel is bombing excessively https://t.co/aDgCI5H5ex
— Wild Violet 🏴🏴 (@Wild_Violet23) October 2, 2024
Maybe, the same way the whole of the West suddenly remembers what international law is?
so you agree? it isn’t normal to bomb civilian areas? https://t.co/MldCLaLato pic.twitter.com/YFd5yl3Fin
— Zosia 👹 (@zosiajacobs) October 1, 2024
Racist corporate media
One person on X was baffled at the linguistic gymnastics the BBC had used to avoid pointing the finger at Israel:
These headlines are so striking. Throughout Israel’s invasion of Gaza and now its invasion of Lebanon, headline writers have been going to extraordinary language contorting lengths to avoid assigning it any responsibility.
It’s a bizarre and global thing. https://t.co/QOZC3RXAh3— Janette Stratton 😷 (@JanetteStratto2) October 1, 2024
It’s not bizarre – it’s intentional in order to paint Black and brown people as the aggressors. Something which we have seen across the mainstream media for decades. It’s hard to see this as anything other than the BBC acting as a mouthpiece for Israel’s propaganda – because at this point, it quite literally is:
So not surprising.
A bunch of arrogant, nihilistic, immoral people are they. https://t.co/wX6COfpJKm
— Ms. Dorudi زن زندگی آزادی 🍉 (@DorudiNL) October 1, 2024
This is so intentional so those ignorant people can continue to believe that is**rl are the victims. Like i literally work with people who know nothing but believe the propaganda that they are victims and that the Arabs are aggressors. To live in a work like this is beyond me. https://t.co/Si4S5SXxzs
— Naj 🇵🇸 (@NajMoJama) October 2, 2024
This is how media propaganda works. https://t.co/VB1WyrvNkO
— Adebayo Salami #Dado 🇳🇬 (@WASalam_01) October 2, 2024
Astonishing bias from @BBCBreaking @BBCNews Once one of the most reliable news sources, which used to at least aim for a measure of objectivity, it has deteriorated into a sad, sorry mouthpiece for right-wing bias and propaganda. https://t.co/WeKyCc6cYd
— snowfinch (@_snowfinch) October 2, 2024
For a year we have watched the west support, fund, and arm Israel. Finally, Iran took one for the team. It’s like watching the school bully finally gets what’s coming to him – without all the mass casualties.
Or, if you want to speak in legalese, as the UN says of the Genocide Convention – signatories to it (of which Iran is) have an:
Obligation to prevent genocide (Article I) which, according to the ICJ, has an extraterritorial scope
Iran targeting Israeli military infrastructure being used to commit genocide was doing exactly this.
Do BBC journalists have no shame? Do they realise that in years to come students will be studying these headlines in horror, wondering how it was allowed to happen? How obvious they are in their racism and how stupid they think the country must be is insulting.
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