(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Melanie Phillips - The BBC's relentless portrayal of the Israelis not as the victims of genocidal terror but as hard-hearted, vengeful and wanton killers of children and the innocent has channeled ancient antisemitic tropes of Jewish blood-lust and helped fuel an enormous increase in attacks on Jews in Britain. The BBC's double standards on Israel, treating patently absurd civilian casualty figures from Hamas as reliable while casting doubt on Israeli statements, present Israel rather than Hamas as the aggressor and rogue actor. The ratio of civilians to combatants killed by Israel is around two to one. This is far fewer than the proportion of civilians killed in war by any other nation's army - and when taking into account the Hamas rockets falling short into Gaza and killing its people, fewer still. The Jews find themselves in the hallucinatory situation of being under unprecedented physical and verbal assault by a Western world determined to erase genocidal Jewish victimization and instead delegitimize Israeli Jews as enemies of humanity. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.
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