Israel Media Bias

[Robert]

Recently "France 24 English" has been boasting to its audience that its French state-owned holding company "France Médias Monde" (of which France 24 is a subsidiary), has achieved the following award:

'France Médias Monde has achieved the Journalism Trust Initiative certification (JTI) from Reporters Without Borders, securing a perfect score of 100% in the overall rating. [...] including': 
'accuracy [...] verified, and balanced information [...]'

Source:
https://www.francemediasmonde.com/en/pre...nitiative/

"France 24 English" reports on Israel give an impression of bias in favor of the Palestinian Arabs, because its reports mostly describe the news from the Palestinian Arab side, in particular about the Israeli war of deterrence and defense against Gaza, while most of the Israelis and pundits it interviews appear to be selected to be opposed to Israeli policy. 

"France 24 English" news readers usually report Gaza casualty figures without stating they are: 
Unverified, 
include Palestinian Arab combatants, 
and source from Hamas.  

I've discussed previous instances of France 24 English bias against Israel, here:
"How biased against Israel do you perceive the Media to be?": 
https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/forum/show... - pid5279


During the Armenia / Azerbaijan conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, (apart from interviewing the Azerbaijan president) "France 24 English" reported that conflict from the Arminian side.


"France 24 English" also appear to show bias in the upcoming United States General Election, against former President Trump:

Please consider the first five minutes of the following video:
[Heading:] LIVE: "Trump attends LIVE Q&A at National Association of Black Journalists conference" [July 31, 2024]:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...i-BB1r1NIw

Please may I invite you to now compare that with the following France 24 English report (you will need to turn on the video's audio.):
[Heading:] "Trump questions Kamala Harris's racial identity at Black journalists' convention:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/202408...convention

If you don't "like" former President Trump, the above comparison is unlikely to change your view, however:
Do you consider that the France 24 English report is a fair representation of the original recording, referencing the "JTI" award (above), regarding the following: 
Do you consider it: "accurate"?
Do you consider it: "fair"?
Do you consider it: "balanced"?

In the full MSN version (above), the ABC journalist makes various accusations against former President Trump, including:

'[...] telling four Congresswomen of color to go back to where they came from [...]'

Source:
See the link for the MSN video above.

Since what former President Trump had posted was that the Congresswomen in question, should:
'go back' 'fix' things and 'Then 'come back',
what the ABC journalist said is so misleading as to be false.

'[...] Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back [...]'

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Twitter [now X]: 7:27 PM - Jul 14, 2019

Extract source:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/stat...43?lang=en

[COmentator]

more media basis.........
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c207j6wy332o

[Robert]

more media basis.........
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c207j6wy332o

Yes, the BBC article you have linked is biased in favor of the Palestinian Arabs, but it is not the typical Media bias that gives the news only from one side, but is the type of bias which can claim it is based in "international law", meaning here, United Nations biased-resolutions and policies against Israel: 

In the case of Israel, what then does "international law" from the U.N. mean?:
It refers to United Nations resolutions, policies (copied by the European Union and other countries such as the United Kingdom), and the consequential legal decisions of courts linked to the U.N., that create a chain of law falsely accusing the Jewish people of stealing their own ancestral-homeland of Israel and consequentially also therefore of building "illegal settlements". 
The historical circumstances in which articles such as the BBC one are based, refer to Israel having recovered in 1967 its ancestral-lands of "Judah and Samaria" (since known wrongly as "West Bank, the"), from the Jordanian illegal-occupiers. 

The following is how the U.N. falsehood against Israel works:
 > Falsely regarding Israel/the Jewish people as illegally-occupying "Judah and Samaria" ("West Bank, the"); 
 > Then, based on that consequently, Israeli homes and villages (referred to in the Media (and strangely also in Israel) erroneously as "settlements"), within "Judah and Samaria" ("West Bank") become: "illegal in International law"; 
 > Then, consequential U.N. Court decisions based in those biased U.N. policies. 

How does the U.N. bias against Israel work?:
The “Palestinian” Arabs start-off in U.N. votes by enjoying a block-vote in their favor of up to 56 Arab and additional Islamic-aligned countries (e.g. U.N. member states that are also members of the “Organization of Islamic Cooperation” and follow its policies when voting in the U.N.), and influence of Arab oil money with consequential trading power; compared to Israel’s one vote. 
Security Council resolutions passed against Israel are typically during the tenure of U.S. Democratic Party Presidents who decide not to use their veto to protect Israel from unjust resolutions. 

Accepted international constitutional law is that Laws must not be passed that are intrinsically-unjust that persecute a minority, as are the U.N. decisions against Israel, which falsely-validate the unverifiable-claims of the “Palestinian” Arabs. 
An example of unjust-laws were the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany which persecuted the Jews.


Why are U.N. policies claiming Israel illegally-occupies any part of its ancestral-homeland, wrong?:

Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral-homeland. Internationally-recognized history shows that the last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel (Roman-imposed name “Palestine”), prior to the RE-establishment of Israel in 1948, was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom. It included the: “West Bank”, Gaza, and Golan Heights. Capital (what is now “EAST”) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map: 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg

Such U.N. policies are illegal, being in conflict with the international treaty signed by the Israelis and “Palestinian” Arabs - the Oslo Accords which also constitute international law. 

There has never been any indigenous “Palestine” / Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel upon which the “Palestinian” Arabs could base any claim to any part of Israel. 

The “Palestinian Arabs” dropped the name “Arab” so you should not understand they mostly originate from Foreign-Arab-Migrant-Workers who came to the land of Israel just prior to, and during, the British Mandate - See “Arab Immigration to Historic Palestine: A Survey”, by Richard Mather: 
https://richardmatherblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/


Since the "Palestinian" Arabs arrived in the land in recent history, the correct terms to use regarding Israeli home-building in the "West Bank" should be as follows:  

 > “Israelis” (NOT Israeli “settlers”) (being either: Jews whose ancestors have unbroken-presence in their ancestral-homeland of Israel, or Jewish returnee-exiles).
 > “Israeli-homes” / "Israeli village” (NOT Israeli “settlement(s)”). (When referring to more than one abode.)

Jews “Re-settling” their ancestral-homeland are therefore “Returnees”.
Israeli “settlers” are either:
 > Jews whose ancestors have unbroken-presence in their ancestral-homeland of Israel.
 > Jewish-exiles returned to their ancestral-homeland of Israel, who have Judah heritage.
(The clue is in the name: “Jew”=citizen of Judah - Judaism is both an ethnicity as well as a religion.)

Thus:
 > “Palestinian-Arab settlers” (NOT “Palestinian villagers”).
 > “Palestinian-Arab settlement” (NOT “Palestinian village”) (when referring to more than one abode.)

84 out of 100 of the highest incidence Palestinian surnames (Palestine region in 2004), had highest incidence outside that region:
My extract source document:
“Country Origin of Palestinian Arab Surnames upd.pdf” - information source “forebears.io”: 
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9d115bv6w...d.pdf/file


How to immediately end the alleged Israeli Illegal-occupation of its ancestral-land, and also the alleged "illegal" status of Israeli home and village building (alleged "illegal"-"settlements") there:  

The falsehood purporting an Israeli illegal-occupation of any part the Jewish ancestral-homeland, comes from the anti-Semitic policies of the United Nations, and which therefore the U.N. should repeal forthwith.

An example of a different U.N. anti-Semitic policy subsequently repealed, was the U.N.'s falsehood that Zionism (Jewish nationalism) was form of racism:
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/17/world...acism.html


The U.N. bias against Israel and the Jewish people constitutes an attempt to make anti-Semitism normal. 

Once the U.N. have repealed their illegal and illogical falsehood purporting an Israeli illegal-occupation, the U.N. should offer an apology to the Jewish people for the 56 years of the U.N.'s suffocating anti-Semitic trumped-up charge. 


Conclusion:
It is necessary to draw a distinction between simple-Media bias (which can be defined as telling the news only from one side), from the bias that sources from the U.N. unjust-resolutions against Israel (aka "international law") which require rebuttal (see above), such as the BBC article to which you refer.

[COmentator]

The bbc used to have such high stanards...and now https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/396594

[Robert]

The bbc used to have such high stanards...and now  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/396594

Interesting "Israel National News" article, which contains a link to the: "Asserson report", detailing the British publicly-funded BBC's ["British Broadcasting Corporation"] pro-Palestinian Arab bias on the Israel / Hamas war, but that link goes to another "Israel National News" article. 

The "Asserson Report" can be accessed from the links available here: 

[Heading:] "The Asserson Report – The Israel-Hamas war and the BBC"

[Extract:] 'This comprehensive report, covering the period from October 7, 2023, to February 7, 2024, scrutinises BBC content in both English and Arabic, revealing a consistent pattern of bias that may undermine its status as a trusted news source. [...]'

Webpage with links for the PDF report:
https://asserson.co.uk/assersonreport/

It is just my personal preference, but at the above webpage, the reader may benefit by reading the report from the following point onwards, by opening the main "Asserson report" link ("Report PDF, 22.6MB") (there may be a slight delay with a white page while it loads)
and going to the heading at page 59 of the report (this may be a different page number in your PDF reader - I'm referring to the page number of the report itself), heading (within the section "7. BBC INTERVIEWEES": 
"ii. Interviewee Affiliation - Estimate of Non-Reported Hamas Supporters/Members". 


(By the way, if you have the patience to wait just a few seconds after typing your Discussion text before posting it, you should see any misspellings underlined by a wavy red line. You should then be able to right-click the word in question to see spelling options. You can choose one of the options by clicking the one you desire.)

[COmentator]

The BBC was once a standard for reporting the news
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bbc-covera...mmentator/

[COmentator]

CBS Told not to refer to Jerusalam as being iN Israel!
NO JOKE
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cbs...b908&ei=31

A sediment shared by Haman in Iran! as  well as the PLO ; Fatah; Hezbollah; Hamas
Iran's supreme leader releases anti-Israel poster evoking Nazi 'Final Solution' | The Times of Israel

[COmentator]

Free Palestine websites.....Iran and the west
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ira...189&ch=512

[Mickey]

In India out of every 10 news channels 9 news channels support Israel... They regularly call Muslim leaders ask them tough questions live on tv and mock them publicly traitors leave the show in between... Al Jazeera. BBC news India. And leftists channels continuously spread hatred towards Israel however ministry cannot stop them from telecasting... The reason we all know...
Remember Israel ! We are always standing beside you .Our relations back to 586 BCE. India will always support Israel no matter what happens. Please ignore antisemitic activities which happen in India, you already know who do that. May god bless you Israel. May you crush terrorism
# Boycott Trevor space.

[Robert]

CBS Told not to refer to Jerusalam as being iN Israel!
NO JOKE
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cbs...b908&ei=31

Have people noticed that many who are not acquainted with Israel and Jewish history, wrongly believe Tel Aviv to be Israel's capital rather than Israel's capital of Jerusalem.

This is because most international Media do not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. 

Reporters and presenters on France 24 for example, often say "Tel Aviv" says this, or that; thus intentionally giving the impression the latter is the capital when of course it is not.