Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson - eviltoast
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.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    then in the next sentence compare The IRA to the fucking Nazis.

    What? Did we read the same article? Maybe I’m suffering from a reading comprehension deficit, here, but that wasn’t my interpretation at all. Could you quote where you think they draw that comparison?