Hamas strike on Israel

the Star of David is a symbol that represents Judaism in general. It also forms part of the Israeli flag. It is a very different to the swastika and your statement, imho, crosses over to anti semitism. If some claimed that post 9/11, or the ISIS rampage, that the star and crescent is the new swastika, we would call that anti Islamic, so we should be careful with the Star of David.

I think the "Greater Israel’ map/uniform patch insignia/picture/drawing whatever you wanna call it would be more representative tbh than the star of David…..I see where he's coming from though to an extent

Oh they do, but it's rarely reported by the BBC. You will hear the Russian narrative - which is eerily simliar to the Israeli playbook- we don't intentionally target civilians - in other media outlets . As the poster pointed out you won't hear a BBC news presenter when interviewing someone critical of Russia interjecting with "Russia would say it doesn't target civilians deliberately", but you will regularly hear them say the following: That Israel would say it doesn't target civilians. We know why there is a difference because Israel is designated an ally, and Russia is the clearly defined bad guy, so no qualifiers/ caveats needed

in order to make that comparison, you would need to compare reports for the same event.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c207gz7key6o

The Russian military did not respond to the BBC’s questions about the allegations. Since its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia has consistently denied deliberately targeting civilians.

Thirteen killed in wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy908n4vr0jo

The Russian defence ministry said on Friday its military had targeted Ukrainian army reserve units with long-range strikes using high-precision weapons, according to a report by the state-owned RIA news agency. 

Moscow has previously said it does not deliberately target civilians, but thousands have been injured and killed across Ukraine since Russia's invasion.

Indeed, if the BBC were to be neutral as they claim, they would preface reports of what Israel are doing with the 'ongoing genocide investigation by the ICJ' and 'members of the Israeli government including Netanyahu are wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes'. Hell will freeze over when the BBC and others preface their reports with those facts. This would demolish their credibility for keep using the 'Israel says…' and 'according to Israel…' nonsense.

Maybe just a coincidence i don't know, but today Australia expelled the Iranian ambassador and all the staff as well as labelling the army as a terrorist group for carrying out antisemitism. It was the first explulsion of an ambassador since WW2

They suspect they were involved in directing a couple of arson attacks one which a synagogue door was set on fire and a building set on fire.

Last week Bibi sent a letter demanding Australia crackdown on Antisemitism.

they have to quote what the Israeli state say, because it is part of the story.

They don't though. The vast majority of armies/forces in battles ave denied/would deny that they deliberately targeting civilians (no matter how hard to believe such a denial might be). It's the default understanding.

In the absence of a caveat saying that the Israeli govt/IDF denies doing so, the reader is not going to interpret it to mean that the govt/IDF does not deny doing so.

Very weak from the leader of a country. Did you see the letter, i would of hoped for a "go **** yourself you scumbag and keep your nose out of our business you sick ****" myself by return post.

Imagine tasking another leader what to do and a deadline to carry it out. The arrogance of the man is incredible, who does he think he is ?

This in the main doesn't seem to bother them when talking about Russia's war in Ukraine. They rarely feel the need to put in a caveat that Russia would deny it deliberately targets civilians. A prime example is Martine Croxall when interviewing guests critical of Israel , she will always remind viewers that Israel would say it's not intentionally targeting Civilians. I have never heard her interrupt someone critical of Russia to report what Russia has to say on the matter.

https://archive.ph/E0Slp

Well this is really confirming what we already know. It's no wonder many holocaust surviors are utterly distraught about it all. This article indicates the Israeli spokesmen and women who speak to the international media know its all bs. Which I suspect, the pro Israeli posters here know well too, but they wil continue with the gaslighting anyway

The gall of that piece of shit whinging about "vandals" defacing a synagogue when he's responsible for levelling miles of civilian buildings and the murder of tens of thousands (possibly a six figure sum at this point) in Gaza, not to mention the stealing of Palestinian land in the west bank.

The Aussie PM should have told him to fuck off and mind his own business.

it isn’t about what I think. International news agencies need to show that they being as even handed as possible. If Spain accused Portugal of targeting civilians and Portugal denied it, I would expect independent news to publish both the accusation and denial as at the time, that is all that can be verified.

where I would make my mind up, is if the news agency then showed a detailed analysis that there is no way Portugal did anything but target civilians, as the BBC did in their analysis of the latest atrocity.
read the following analysis. It clarifies what happened, gives a statement from the IDF and makes it very clear the scale of the attack and that Israel carried out an attack that was wholly disproportionate, regardless of what they say. That to me ia excellent journalism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeqr73p8wyo