Today: Thornberry on anti-semitism

this morning (tuesday 4th), 8.22-8.24am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson) includes …

“How do you feel about long-serving servants of your party who share your view on Europe, Alastair Campbell, being turfed out of the party while people who are caught on tape making anti-semitic racist comments, the sort of thing you say you object to from Donald Trump, are still in the party – Peter Willsman who’s very close to Jeremy Corbyn of course?”

“Would you feel uncomfortable if in a few weeks time Peter Willsman remains in the party, having claimed that anti-semitism is not only made up, but has been created by the Israeli embassy, would you feel uncomfortable if he’s still there?”

including interview with …

• emily thornberry mp

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Today: Corbyn praises book

this morning (wednesday 1st), 7.41-7.42am, and 8.21-8.23am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson and justin webb) includes …

“This is a book that alleges ‘an internatioal conspiracy of Jewish financiers’ …

He describes business as being ‘controlled by men of a single and peculiar race’.”

“The Telegraph reports that Jeremy Corbyn is embroiled in another row about anti-semitism after he’s found to have endorsed a book written in 1902, which argued that Europe’s banks and newspapers were controlled by Jews. It says that four years before he become Labour leader, he wrote a foreword to a new edition of J A Hobson’s Imperialism, A Study, which was written in 1902, in which he described the book as ‘brilliant and a great tome’. … anti-semitism in Hobson’s writings has been widely covered in historical circles. The paper notes that Labour has admitted that the text has anti-semitic elements …”

including interview with …

• rebecca long-bailey mp

Today: The Librarian of Auschwitz

yesterday morning (friday 5th), 7.41-7.46am, on bbc radio 4 (repeated tuesday 9th, 7.29am on newsday, and 2.51pm and 9.44pm on newshour, on bbc world service radio)

today (presented by nick robinson and justin webb) includes …

“With about a dozen books, it may well have been the smallest library in the world, but its influence was huge. Incredibly, amd despite the strict surveillance, this secret library flourished inside the Auschwitz concentration camp. One 14-year-old prisoner was entrusted with the task of looking after the books that had been smuggled into the camp. Her name was Dita Kraus. A new book, The Librarian of Auschwitz, tells her extraordinary story.”

including contributions from  … 

• bbc reporter rebecca jones 

• auschwitz survivor dita kraus, 90

Today: Gaza border anniversary 2

this morning (saturday 30th), 7.05-7.06am, 8.06am, and 8.57-8.59am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson and justin webb) includes …

“Thousands of Palestinians are gathering along the Israel-Gaza border to mark the start of weekly protests a year ago. Israeli forces have killed nearly 200 Palestinian demonstrators during that time, while one Israeli soldier has died. And a Palestinian is reported to have been shot dead this morning. The leader of Hamas, which controls Gaza, has called for a million people to join today’s action.”

including report from …

• bbc reporter tom bateman

BBC – Gaza and elections

this morning (wednesday 27th), 6.10am and 6.13-6.16am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson and justin webb) includes …

“Israel has carried out further airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. It’s a response, say the Israeli army, to Hamas rockets fired into Israeli territory, all this in an intense build-up to elections in Israel.”

including report from … 

• bbc reporter tom bateman

Today: UNHRC prediction

The BBC, unwilling to wait for the publication of the UNHRC report on Gaza injuries this afternoon, presents a completely one-sided pair of interviews.

(and fails to mention that victim Musa Abuhassanin  was claimed by Hamas as a Hamas captain)

this morning (monday 18th), 8.49-8.54am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson) includes …

“A commission established by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate what it calls ‘the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force by the Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civilians’ is due to deliver its conclusions later today.”

including interviews with … 

• canadian-palestinian activist dr tarek loubani

(see aso https://www.israellycool.com/2018/05/18/busted-palestinian-medic-killed-was-a-hamas-terrorist/ or https://honestreporting.ca/exclusive-dead-palestinian-medic-was-a-hamas-member-canadian-media-duped/)

• orthopaedic surgeon mahmoud mattar, al shifa hospital

Today: Protests against Hamas

this morning (monday 18th), 6.38-6.41am, on bbc radio 4

today (presented by nick robinson) includes …

“There were rocket attacks on Tel Aviv from Gaza, and retaliatory strikes on Gaza by the Israeli armed forces … Several days of protests in Gaza by another group calling itself We Want to Live, and they’re really protesting, defying the tight control of the Hamas authorities, protesting about the rising cost of living and high taxes in Gaza, and that’s led to dozens of arrests, people being being beaten up by the Hamas security forces, including journalists and human rights workers.” 

including report from … 

• bbc reporter yolande knell