The Mail on Sunday reported another unpleasant development in the Labour anti-Semitism story this morning - the suspension of a Muslim Labour councillor from Luton called Aysegul Gurbuz over various anti-Semitic tweets.
She's a 20 year old student at Warwick University, where she acts as an organiser for the Friends of Palestine society.
She's a 20 year old student at Warwick University, where she acts as an organiser for the Friends of Palestine society.
The tweets include ones praising Hitler as the "greatest man in history", saying "Ed Miliband is Jewish. He will never become prime minister of Britain", and hoping Iran will use nuclear weapons and "wipe Israel off the map".
In her defence, Miss Gurbuz says her sister might have posted them.
Looking on the bright side though, she was suspended by Labour pending an investigation.
The BBC has been very slow to take this story up. The Mail on Sunday reported it overnight. The Sun soon followed. Then (according to Google's timeline) came Israel's Arutz Sheva, the Jewish Chronicle, the Daily Telegraph, Metro, Politics.Home, the Evening Standard and, just about four hours ago, the BBC (as confirmed by Newssniffer).
The BBC now has the story on its home page under the headline Councillor suspended over Hitler tweet (no party affiliation mentioned).
The article itself is short, doesn't mention the Ed Miliband tweet, doesn't use the word 'Muslim' and doesn't mention her pro-Palestinian activism.
All of those things should have been mentioned.
Why does the BBC News website behave like this? It really isn't good enough, is it? (to put it very mildly).
They don't mention such things because they are in denial. They are in denial about mass immigration. According to the soggy liberal-left, mass immigration is an unalloyed "good thing". There may be challenges associated with it. But there can't be negativities or problems. So they minimise, they don't report, they redefine (people from immigrant communities heading for Syria are "Brits"), they omit, they lie and they deny.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally today on BBC World Service I heard the most appallingly pro-migration biased programme - "Boston Calling" - sounded like a PBS prog. According to Boston Calling, classically, all migrants and a good and affecting story to tell and all "challenges" could be met successfully - plus the Latino vote would be useful in stopping Trump.
The headline says Labour councillor now. News Sniffer didn't catch the earlier version. It does not mention the Miliband tweet. Hugh Sykes has already explained why the BBC is shy about this stuff.
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