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The Beeb’s Legal Verdict: Israel Guilty as Charged

• The BBC renders its own legal ruling on settlement activity: The settlements are illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. That definitive wording, in the Beeb’s own voice, is like definitively stating: The cover up of…

Pesach Benson
November 2, 2011
12:00 am

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• The BBC renders its own legal ruling on settlement activity:

The settlements are illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

That definitive wording, in the Beeb’s own voice, is like definitively stating:

The cover up of the Malcolm Balen report is illegal in UK and EU law, although the BBC disputes this.

As for the legality of settlements, Nicholas Rostow‘s well-rounded piece overturns the Beeb’s decision. Case dismissed.

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Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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