And there's more...

As Labour suspends three councillors over Israel comments disappears from the BBC home page and drops ever further down their Politics page, the Telegraph now reports that Labour has secretly suspended 50 members for anti-Semitic and racist comments: 

Senior sources reveal that Labour's compliance unit has been swamped by the influx of hard-left supporters following Jeremy Corbyn's election. 

The  suspensions that have been made public so far are said to be just the tip of the iceberg.

That's the Telegraph's main headline this mornng.

Meanwhile, Melanie Phillips has a powerful piece in the Times today, Hatred of Israel and Jews can’t be separated. Here's part of it, relevant to the BBC's reporting:

In fact, as the High Level Military Group of western top brass told the UN last year, the lengths to which Israel went to try to protect Gaza’s civilians far exceeded the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, even at the cost of its own soldiers’ and civilians’ lives, and going further than any other nation’s army would ever do. 

Yet the British public had been told, virtually without contradiction, that Israel had wantonly killed hundreds of children. Among those on the left now vowing to root out antisemitism, I didn’t notice any of them rushing to condemn that particular blood libel. 

Last year, the Islamic adviser to Mahmoud Abbas taught on Palestinian Authority TV that Jews throughout history have represented “falsehood . . . evil . . . the devils and their supporters . . . the satans and their supporters”. The Palestinian Authority daily published an opinion article claiming that Jews “are thirsty for blood to please their god (against the gentiles), and crave pockets full of money”. Children were shown on TV reciting poems portraying Jews as “most evil among creations”, “barbaric monkeys” and “Satan with a tail”. 

Progressive Britain never reports any of this. Instead, it amplifies the hate in its own intellectual, cultural and media echo-chamber.