Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Jeremy Bowen's tweets about the Israeli election.



That sequence shows Jeremy Bowen posting a mocking ad of Benjamin Netanyahu from one Israeli opposition grouping, the Arab Joint List, plus a tender photo of the leader of the Arab Joint List and his young son - the only such sympathetic photo tweeted by the BBC man.

It also shows Jeremy Bowen passing on the opinion of just one Israel voter and, guess what, he's a "frustrated" one "disgusted" by Mr Netanyahu!

Plus it shows Jeremy Bowen employing loaded language - "mastery of scare tactics" to (as Not a Sheep puts it) "cast aspersions on why Benjamin Netanyahu won".

And, furthermore, it shows Jeremy Bowen giving his characteristically spin on why the Likud leader won - an 'analysis' that drew a response from Colonel Richard Kemp:


Sue and I have been watching JB's Twitter feed too, but I completely missed something that Not a Sheep spotted. On the morning of the election, came this: what Not a Sheep describes as "just the sort of view of Israel that you'd expect from Jeremy Bowen":-


Who, other than a BBC reporter who doesn't really like Israel, would tweet that image to the world accompanied by the caption, "this is one place I've been today, previewing elections in Israel"?