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French President Emmanuel Macron greets Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the Elysee Palace in Paris on July 16. Photo: Screenshot.

At the July 16thevent in Paris marking the 75thanniversary of the deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz, theFrench presidentmade a significant statement:

French president Emmanuel Macron on Sunday condemned anti-Zionism as a new form of anti-Semitism, in what observers said was an unprecedented statement from the leader of France in support of the Jewish state.

We will never surrender to the messages of hate;we will not surrender to anti-Zionism because it is a reinvention of anti-Semitism, Macron said an event in Paris marking the mass deportation of French Jews during World War II. He was directly addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who attended the event. [emphasis added]

July 21, 2017 1:29 pm

Macrons statementis, of course, in step with theIHRA working definition of antisemitismthat was adopted in recent months by theBritish governmentandthe EU parliament;it is alsoaccord with theUS State departments definition. Macronswords were reported by numerous media outlets including theIndependent, theTimes, theWashington Postand theNew York Times.

However, theBBC News websites reporton the ceremony made no mention whatsoever of the French presidentsrecognitionof anti-Zionism as a manifestation of antisemitism.

Should we be surprised at the omission of that statement from the BBCs coverage of the event? Not really.

Last April,the BBC considered itself sufficiently qualified to produce a backgrounder titled Whats the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism?.

As wasnoted here at the time, that article promotedthe Livingstone Formulation;failed to inform readers what anti-Zionism actually means; and focused on promoting the inaccurate and misleading notion that anti-Zionism is the same thing as criticizing the Israeli government. The BBCs piece alsoadvanced the Zionism is racism canard.

SubsequentBBCreportingagainamplifiedsimilar themes.

The BBCs funding public should therefore not be overly surprised that a statement from the French president that contrasts starkly with the BBCs repeated woolly misrepresentations of anti-Zionism and spotlights the corporationscalculated disregardfor accepted definitions of antisemitism was sidelined by BBC News.

See the article here:
BBC Ignores French President's Comparisons Between Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism - Algemeiner

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