(Jerusalem Post) Hilary Leila Krieger - The BBC employs a "gross double standard to the Jewish state" that smacks of anti-Semitism, Minister Natan Sharansky charged Tuesday, reacting to its coverage of the IDF's arrest of a 16-year-old would-be suicide bomber last week. Sharansky quoted BBC correspondent Orla Guerin as describing to viewers how the IDF "paraded the child in front of the international media," then "produced" the child for reporters, "posed" him a second time for the cameras, and then "rushed him back into a jeep." Such language, Sharansky said, casts doubt on what happened.
2004-03-31 00:00:00Full ArticleBACK Visit the Daily Alert Archive