The Anti-Israel Bias of the ABC

On those occasions where I punish myself by listening to ABC radio, it’s like entering a parallel dimension. It’s a Twilight Zone where socialism has never failed, Jacinda Ardern is the most competent leader in the history of the world, and Donald Trump competes with Scott Morrison to see how many babies they can eat.

But the weirdest, upside-down, inverted reality of the ABC is the Middle East. Through the red-tinted spectacles of the ABC, Israel is the ruthless aggressor against those poor, innocent Palestinians who never did nuffin’ wrong, never.

Let me demonstrate by going through the tweets of the ABC’s Middle East correspondent, Tom Joyner. Consider this a too-typical case.

Joyner last week tweeted what a wonderful time he’d just had in Gaza, the Palestinian enclave on Israel’s border that is run by Hamas, an Islamist group banned in Australia as a terrorist group.

“It’s been a really life-changing experience over the last few days,” enthused Joyner.

“The people in Gaza are strong and generous … can’t wait to go back.”

So, it’s no surprises that Joyner’s reporting from the latest eructation of Hamas violence in Gaza consisted entirely of interviewing Palestinians about how bad those Jews Israelis are.

On May 8, he reported “53 Palestinians wounded in clashes tonight”. He did not mention the six Israeli police who had been injured.

But never let it be said that the ABC never corrects itself. After pro-Hamas groups whined that “clash” insinuated that there might be two sides in the conflict, Joyner immediately rushed to comply with the anti-Israel narrative.

Replied Joyner: “Good points made. I used ‘clashes’ today in coverage. I will stop from now on.”

Still, Joyner didn’t have to stop reporting the Jew-hating hatred of the Palestinian leadership – because he assiduously avoided mentioning it in the first place.

Hamas political bureau member Fathi Hamad, a former interior minister, was filmed last week shouting at a rally: “People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives.”

Hamad even pointed at his throat to show just where to stab: “Cut their artery from here. A knife costs five shekels. Buy a knife, sharpen it, put it here and just cut off (their heads) …

“The Jews have spread corruption and have acted with arrogance, and their moment of reckoning has come.”

Joyner never mentioned this.

In fact, Joyner’s reporting for the ABC goes out of its way to censor any mention of Palestinian violence.

But Joyner did retweet footage of a car driven by a Jewish settler into a Palestinian protester. Again, he left out the context, making the Israeli seem the aggressor.

That footage, not cut by Joyner himself, left out the start of this clash.

The full footage shows Palestinian protesters stoning the Israeli’s car and trying to open its doors, with the driver first trying to reverse out of trouble, and then, blocked, accelerating and crashing into a bollard and one of the attackers[…]

Joyner on his Twitter account does not mention any of the Jewish dead, but does show a dead Palestinian and again quotes Hamas: “Gaza health officials say at least 20 people, including 9 children have been killed in the Israeli retaliation.”

Joyner does not add that Israel says some 150 Hamas rockets fell short and exploded in Gaza itself, killing at least three of those children.

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No doubt Joyner, like the leftist politicians dressing up in their silly tablecloths, would protest that he’s not anti-Semitic. He just censors and distorts the truth in the service of a regime that wants to erase Jews from the Middle-East.

And Australians’ taxes are paying for this hateful garbage.

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