LEBANON VS. THE BBC
Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH
On 22 July, I joined two Iraqi friends for the peaceful London demonstration for "END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW," organised by Stop the War. The BBC said: "Police estimated that 7,000 people took part in the London rally but organisers said more than 20,000 people had attended the march from Whitehall to Hyde Park." Both BBC-given estimates are wrong. The UK police consistently underestimate crowd size if a demonstration is against UK government policy. The BBC's quote of the organisers is wrong. Stop the War said 30,000 were present. Some said more. The demonstration story is, in any case, buried underneath the headlined story: Rally offers support to Israelis. "A rally is being held to show solidarity with people in areas of northern Israel caught up in the crisis in the Middle East." The BBC thus makes its support of UK (US / Israeli) Government policy, in which the bombing of Lebanon is accepted, abundantly clear...
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On 22 July, I joined two Iraqi friends for the peaceful London demonstration for "END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW," organised by Stop the War. The BBC said: "Police estimated that 7,000 people took part in the London rally but organisers said more than 20,000 people had attended the march from Whitehall to Hyde Park." Both BBC-given estimates are wrong. The UK police consistently underestimate crowd size if a demonstration is against UK government policy. The BBC's quote of the organisers is wrong. Stop the War said 30,000 were present. Some said more. The demonstration story is, in any case, buried underneath the headlined story: Rally offers support to Israelis. "A rally is being held to show solidarity with people in areas of northern Israel caught up in the crisis in the Middle East." The BBC thus makes its support of UK (US / Israeli) Government policy, in which the bombing of Lebanon is accepted, abundantly clear...
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