— A followup to the HR communique ‘Not an Apartheid Wall’: Benjamin Pogrund has a full-length essay that puts the slander to rest: ‘Israel and the Apartheid Lie’
— A followup to the HR communique ‘Weeping for Yassir’:
Stephen Pollard in the Times of London doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about:
For some reason, Ms Plett’s words have prompted a series of news reports. I am at a loss to understand why. There is nothing remotely newsworthy about her having expressed her adoring view of Arafat and her contempt for Israel’s attempts to defend itself from terror. Certainly, her tear-jerking might not convey the impartiality which license-fee payers ought to be able to expect from the BBC, but her sentiments are so straight-down-the-line a representation of the BBC’s bias against Israel that they are in no way newsworthy
