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The school was locked at the time of the fire - a usual practice to ensure full segregation of the sexes. Experts at Hebrew University said dating.

The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a dig about 20km (12 miles) south-west of Jerusalem. Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says. Most of the victims were crushed in a stampede as they tried to flee the blaze. The pottery fragment showed five lines of script. The US administration under Mr Trump, from 2017-2021, is considered the most favourable towards. Members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Preventionįamilies of the victims have been incensed over the deaths. Mr Trump made the comments in interviews for a book about his role in Middle East peace-making. "Lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by Watchman even refused to open the gates to let the girls out. The father of one of the dead girls said that the school The Saudi Gazette quoted witnesses as saying that the police - known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - had stopped men who tried to help the girls and warned "it is a sinful to approach them". One witness said he saw three policemen "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya". Thaker has also used an anonymous social media account to support a text against Jewish presenter Emma Barnett after she spoke out about the personal impact of antisemitism on her life.15 girls died in the blaze and more than 50 others were injuredĪccording to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam. He promotes extremists like Jackie Walker, who was expelled from the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s chairmanship due to her antisemitism. Senior BBC journalist Nimesh Thaker used the Twitter account to belittle antisemitism. This is just a sampling of her anti-Israel propaganda.

Garthwaite has wrongly suggested that Gaza has only one border, and that that sole border is controlled by Israel. She deleted a false map from her personal Twitter account that greatly overstated alleged Palestinian land loss to Israel, and she has been accused of sharing other false or controversial claims about Israel on social media. Ironically they get their news from the bbc Average boomer in England trusts FB/Murdoch press more. Most of my client base are from asia/middle east. Sublime Pant turns it on against Indians in four-day tour game Khaleej Times 21:18. KKlawinski NikoEsquire CarlaRK3 i have a work account and its easy to keep away from the swamp. deal with the Taliban destroyed Afghans' military morale, a new report says NPR 21:20. She has admitted to sharing inaccurate pro-Palestinian propaganda on social media. MoH: One COVID-19 infection, 1 recovery in Syria Syrian Arab News Agency 21:21. Senior BBC producer Rosie Garthwaite is working on a new documentary critical of Israeli actions in East Jerusalem. Camera UK maintains a special monitoring site solely to focus on the BBC’s anti-Israel bias. There has been a steady stream of complaints for decades about the BBC’s anti-Israel bias-more than enough to fill a book. Shtauber summed up his remarks by saying it was almost a daily task for him to react to BBC distortions about Israel. When reporting from Israel, the mosque on the Temple Mount is usually shown in the background, which gives viewers the impression that Jerusalem is predominantly Muslim. It derives from the BBC’s method of broadcasting. It doesn’t result from a single broadcast here or there. Any viewer who looks at the BBC’s information on Israel for a consistent period gets a distorted picture.

Over the years I had endless conversations with them. This would be a good occasion for the publication of the secret 2004 Malcolm Balen report about BBC reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.įormer Israeli ambassador to the UK Zvi Shtauber told me in an interview in 2005: He wants to make the BBC’s reporting impartial. Now, starting with the western al-Anbar province and spreading east to Baghdad and mainly Sunni areas to the north, there has been a gathering trend whereby Sunni tribes and nationalist groups have turned against al-Qaeda as their primary enemy. In June 2020, Tim Davie became the BBC’s new director general. According to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam. Yet other than criticize the BBC publicly, there was little anyone could do. For decades, there has been a steady stream of complaints about the BBC’s anti-Israel bias.
