Israel suffers clear bias from politicians, the media, the University campus, the institutionalized church, and citizens in general. We hear frequent comments like “the illegal occupation of Palestinian land”. But legal and historical facts show this to be untrue.
THE MEDIA
There is worldwide mainstream media bias against Israel. Leading media, like the BBC, CNN, the Guardian and the New York Times often take an anti-Israel stance. CNN, the American satellite TV and Cable News Network has been awarded first prize for its biased reporting of atrocities in Israel. Sadly, the general public is influenced by all this and many join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement – a global campaign against Israel.
Example: The 2024 Asserson Report on BBC coverage of the Israel-Hamas war highlighted serious BBC violations of BBC neutrality:
BBC Bias Against Israel
The 2024 Asserson Report was a ground-breaking analysis of BBC coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. The report was the product of a team of expert lawyers working with data scientists who have used AI to assess the output of the BBC. Key findings:
1) BBC Breakfast, News at Ten and News Night all showed moderate or strong pro-Palestinian/anti-Israeli sentiment in more than 90 per cent of broadcasts.
2) BBC Arabic exhibited pro-Palestinian bias in 90 per cent-plus of web articles and videos.
3) BBC Sounds podcasts on the war presented by Jeremy Bowen and Lyse Doucet showed 84% of the content was rated as pro-Palestinian and/or anti-Israeli.
THE CHURCH
Even the World Council of Churches (WCC) takes a biased view of Israel. The institutionalized church (as embraced by the WCC) often takes a politically correct line and avoids conflict with secular thinking. So often the church leans towards Replacement Theology and the false concept of ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’.
POLITICS
The UN probably leads the way here, with many more UN Resolutions against Israel than against other countries. Some 40% of UN Human Rights Council Resolutions have been against Israel alone. But at least one country acknowledges the political bias: the United States of America. In June 2018, US Ambassador Nikki Haley announced her country’s decision to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council, noting its “chronic bias against Israel”. A few in Britain have also spoken up for Israel. In a speech to the British House of Commons, Andrew Roberts MP argued for Israel’s right to self-defence and legitimacy:
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The UN Bias Against Israel
It is prophesied that all nations will eventually abandon support for Israel. Today there is reducing public support for Israel even in America. In fact, all nations will eventually be gathered against her in war. This international bias is best seen in UN Resolutions:
The vast majority of critical resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly focus on Israel … from 2012 to 2015, the General Assembly adopted 97 resolutions criticizing countries … about 85% were against Israel. The General Assembly adopted 26 resolutions that criticised a country in 2016, of which 20 were directed at Israel. [Fact Check]
This is surprising since Israel is the only true democracy left in the Middle East. The United Nations has made the democratic State of Israel the target of incessant condemnation while neglecting its mandate in challenging the oppressive regimes around the world.
This video explains the source of the UN bias against Israel:
GENEVA, July 23, 2014: The Palestinian ambassador to the UNHRC, together with Iran, Syria, Egypt, Cuba and Venezuela try to silence UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer during a UN Emergency Session on Gaza. Neuer defends Israel’s right to resist Hamas aggression. The council voted 29 to 1 (USA), with 17 abstentions, to condemn Israel:
As the UN Special Rapporteur on the PA Territories, Richard Falk (Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus at Princeton University), compared Hamas terrorists to fighters with the French resistance during the Holocaust, link. Falk is co-author of a 2017 UN Report accusing Israel of being an “apartheid regime”, and he repeatedly condemns the Jewish State with calls for boycotts against the State of Israel, see Fred Skolnik.
UN Bias in the Israel-Gaza War: The UN anti-Israel bias has become more pronounced since the October 7 attack by Hamas. For example, Israel claims that UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) employees were involved in the October 7 massacre (it is now known there has been deep infiltration by Hamas into the ranks of UNRWA, link). Also, according to Reuters, Israeli forces have discovered a tunnel network hundreds of metres long and running partly under UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. Surely UNRWA knew about this? And in June 2024, the UN Secretary-General blacklisted the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) based on flawed information.
Given such obvious bias, even the UN Secretary-General has admitted that there is unjustified bias against Israel:
Unfortunately, because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel has been weighed down by criticism and suffered from bias and sometimes even discrimination
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, August 2013
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