It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn, writes the BBC's World Affairs editor.

I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.

Mods, feel free to remove if this is not newsy enough.

  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The lawyers told them not to because everyone’s scared of being called anti-semitic, that’s all

    Honest question, how would labelling the Hamas as terrorists get them to be called anti-semitic?

    Anti-semitic, as far as I know, means “against Jews” both in academics and colloquially. Hamas aren’t Jews.

    Maybe you meant something like islamophobe instead?