Now that the BBC apologized for airing graphic footage of last week’s bulldozer attack, Caroline Glick compares it to the Ramallah lynch. That incident, the only other example of Palestinian terror caught on film, also elicited an apology from the Italian news service:
In this case, as in the case of the lynching eight years ago, the reason the BBC apologized is not because the film’s images were too gruesome, but because it strayed from the accepted narratives of the Palestinian war against Israel. To maintain the narratives, “the right editorial balance between the demands of accuracy and the potential impact on the program’s audience,” is one that engenders the belief that Israel is either morally indistinguishable from the Palestinians, or that Israel is morally inferior to the Palestinians.
