Willie Pete

It's quite true though. Remember the student protests? left wingers on the rampage. Left wingers lose their cool much more quickly because they operate on base instinct. Their whole ideology is based on a childish perspective of a 'perfect world' which they envisage. This means that actual debate is almost null and void with them because they don't see their ideology as debatable, they see it as a way of life. So when someone like me (centre-right) comes along and starts pulling their 'perfect world' apart, they very quickly resort to lashing out, be it name calling "fascist", "thatcher nazi" etc or physically lashing out. The good news is that left wingers are terrible at fighting and I don't fear any lashing out by that lot.

No surprise it was a Labour MP. Left wingers always resort to violence because they can't control their emotions and always get hysterical.

Yeah, I think the Iraq war was based on some facts too. Quite legal, legit and above board by all accounts. You're right, there's no way that things could be skewed here in favour of the BBC. No chance that a powerful media machine would have contacts galore and a lot of weight in the courts. Not to mention endless funds from the public. Listen, maybe you should go and do a spot of weeding in your garden or something. You're certainly not adding anything of note here.

Of course I don't accept the judgement that a publicly funded broadcaster can have secretive reports which are of public interest and which deal with one of the most highly contested conflicts. Especially when the findings could have legal repercussions. So the BBC could essentially be withholding evidence. This is all compounded by the fact they used our money to commission the report, and our money to suppress it. How anyone can stick up for the BBC in this instance is beyond comprehension. Additionally, I can't say I'm surprised a powerful media organisation which pretty much enjoys a monopoly, has managed to win their case.

I think you've been sufficiently exposed.

Another left winger praying at the alter of the BBC So the report leaks are not enough for you. I guess along with secretive government reports, you also dispute all leaks. Treading water much?

Perhaps you should be the one paying attention, as I have already posted links. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23628970-the-secret-report-at-heart-of-bbcs-gaza-paranoia.do The exact scale of the findings is unknown, but it has been widely reported that the report found anti-Israel bias which is against BBC impartial laws - but they have essentially covered up the evidence.

So you're comparing Israelis to people who put people's heads on spikes, burned them alive, flayed people alive etc? Ok, I'll just put you in the same group as CXC - goodbye.

So you were comparing them to whom? the child-sacrificing pagans? The 'burning them alive' medieval Europeans? The Russian pogroms? The Nazis? Which oppressors did you mean in your odious post?

They aren't just 'any' organisation though. They are publicly funded. I guess if we just continue your vision of how things should be, we can say that the NHS should also be a secretive Mafioso organisation. Hell, the government should have internal reports about its failings and the public shouldn't have to know about it. I would have no problem if the BBC is a privately owned company. If that was the case they could pump their propaganda 24/7 for all I care. But they are using our money to hide their wrong doings from us. You can't get more morally bankrupt than that. Especially as they are LEGALLY bound to be impartial.

The EU's guidelines on anti-semitism list examples of this form of racism. One of the most prominent examples of anti-semitism the EU guidelines highlight, is the odious tendency by some to compare Israelis to Nazis.

The actual law bit is in a .pdf, so I found this instead http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/ethics-and-values/impartiality/ http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23628970-the-secret-report-at-heart-of-bbcs-gaza-paranoia.do

Interesting. I wonder if you would feel the same had the opposite been found? that it was pro-Israel bias? I suspect you and your ilk would be banging on the doors demanding it be released. Or some other subject that concerned you. If the BBC were secretly undermining it - you wouldn't be this diplomatic about it So hypothetically, if an internal report by the BBC found damning evidence that the BBC supports one of the political parties (let's say....Labour) and senior BBC officials had met senior Labour in secret meetings to discuss policy and when the BBC can report on something, and when to 'play things down' etc. Would that also be ok to suppress in the courts using our licence money? you'd be quite happy for that report never to see the light of day and just 'trust' that the BBC fixes things?

Life isn't 'fair'. This is what the school playground kids (the left wing) don't seem to understand. We don't allow people with a questionable mental state to become firearms officers. So to we don't allow an undemocratic international pariah state who have a decades-long history of international terrorism, threats against their neighbours and oppression against their own people to control nuclear weapons. Preserving the life of millions trumps your playground 'fairness'.

It might not be in the same 'league' - although to Israel, a 12 year long campaign of propaganda by the BBC would be as serious to them as the phone hacking scandal here. Secondly, BBC impartiality is legally binding. They have to, by law, be impartial. So it could be that the BBC has broken the law, but won't publish the findings. I see that as quite a serious matter - the left wing however are hypocrites as usual.