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BBC Ignores Impartiality Guidelines in Report on Jerusalem Housing Construction
(CAMERA-UK) Hadar Sela - On Nov. 16, BBC News published a report headlined "Israeli plan for new East Jerusalem settler homes criticised." The report includes a partisan map created by the political NGO B'Tselem. Readers are also provided with the unchallenged view of a Palestinian Authority representative, while there is no comment included from either the Israeli government or the Jerusalem municipality. Nor are they informed that the project includes housing for Arab residents. The site has been used for temporary housing for new immigrants from the former USSR and Ethiopia since 1991. BBC has never presented its audiences with any viewpoint which contradicts the narrative advanced by the political NGOs which it repeatedly chooses to quote and promote.