BBC editor may sue Owen Jones over Israel bias claim

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/bbc-editor-sue-owen-jones-israel-bias-claim-2z5pvbpz6

by ParkedUpWithCoffee

11 comments

  1. >. The article was published on Drop Site, a news website, with the headline, The BBC’s civil war over Gaza.

    I’ve not read the article so can’t comment on the contents but have to question why the Guardian wouldn’t publish an article from one of their employees.

  2. I “May” live on the moon someday.
    I’m not sure the BBC has a leg to stand on considering their reporting of Israeli football fans on the rampage in Amsterdam as them being victims of antisemitism.

  4. I think legal action may be potentially dangerous here – if you take this to court and don’t thoroughly win, you’re going to be providing more fuel for the fire.

  5. Owen Jones spent something like 19 thousand quid on legal advice before publishing. He should be ok.

  6. Please do…

    Draw even more attention to the systemic bias at the BBC.

  7. Another day, another ‘this may’ happen article from the Times designed to whip up controversy.

  8. I would bet good money this never happens. The right-wing media is just whipping up nonsense.

  9. It’s strange how pro-Palestinian commentators like Owen Jones accused the BBC of having a pro-Israel bias, whilst at the same time pro-Israel commentators claim the BBC actually has a massive anti-Israel bias.

  10. Good. Do it, wouldn’t be the first time that crowd published absolute rubbish just because it fed their “Jews r bad” narrative. I remember his mates at novara media getting sued and losing for publishing an article called “the truth about Israel” that contained nothing but lies and they had to publicly apologise, pay damages and legal fees *and* donate to an openly Zionist charity.

  11. I think if you are hanging pictures of yourself posing with Israeli government officials and framing signed letters from a politician who has an arrest warrant for war crimes on your office wall then you probably aren’t the best person to be a neutral editor for the middle east section of BBC news.

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