Saturday, November 12, 2005<\/p>\n\n
Israeli-Palestinian Impartiality Review\nBBC Governance Unit\nRoom 211, 35 Marylebone High Street\nLondon, W1U 4AA \nUnited Kingdom\nisraelipalestinian.review@bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n\n
Gentlemen:<\/p>\n\n
On October 24, 2001 I wrote the following letter to the BBC:<\/p>\n\n
\u201cBBC reporter expresses solidarity with Hamas<\/p>\n\n
\u201cThe Jerusalem Post reported today (24.05.2001) on a Hamas gathering to honor journalists \u201cfor the special role they have played through their cameras, pens and skills, as well as through their rare courage and daring by their joining the nation struggling fiercely against the enemy.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n\n
\u201cThe Post quoted senior BBC correspondent, Faid Abu Shimalla, speaking on behalf of the journalists, as having said:<\/p>\n\n
\u201cdespite the pace of current events and the sensitive circumstances applying to journalists and media organizations, which are waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n\n
\u201cThough Shimalla seems to have let the cat out of the bag, the BBC \u201cMore to the point however, BBC should surely have asked Shimalla directly whether she`d been correctly quoted. And, specifically, did she include BBC among the media organizations working shoulder-to-shoulder with Hamas?<\/p>\n\n \u201cIsn`t essential that the BBC knows which news-distributing organizations are masquerading as Hamas fronts?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n\n Yours etc.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe Jerusalem Post reported today (24.05.2001) on a Hamas gathering to honor journalists \u201cfor the special role they have played through their cameras, pens and skills, as well as through their rare courage and daring by their joining the nation struggling fiercely against the enemy.\u201d\u009d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}s response was puerile if not disingenuous. Saying they were unable to locate the Web site does not mean the site doesn<\/code>t exist.<\/p>\n\n