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Ex-BBC Chairman Attacks Corporation over Israel Coverage
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Marcus Dysch - Former BBC chairman Lord Grade wrote to the BBC's director of news and current affairs, James Harding, to say its coverage of the ongoing violence in Israel and the West Bank had at times been misleading. The BBC had failed to "fulfill its obligation to viewers" by not showing Palestinian Authority officials praising the attacks, he wrote. Lord Grade said a report by correspondent Orla Guerin on Sunday last week had implied "equivalence between Israeli victims of terrorism and Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli security forces in the act of carrying out terror attacks....An emotional interview is conducted with the father of a dead Palestinian youth who had been killed committing a fatal terror attack. However, the report failed to show the emotional distress caused to Israelis by any of these recent attacks. This is inexcusable."