If like me you occasionally and very reluctantly watch anything on the BBC, you will have noticed a profusion of incestuous promotional material. This is intended to remind us all of the “value” we receive from the licence fee because in approximately 42 days, the BBC will be coming to the country (the UK, that is) for an increase in its Licence Fee.

The actual date is April 1st which also happens to be April Fools’ Day, and that prompted me to wonder how foolish we are to currently fund the broadcaster to the tune of £3.6 billion in licence fee income annually and and how much more foolish to continue to do so at a higher rate. In other words to reward the broadcaster for its activities.

Ignoring its pandering to some sections of UK citizenry and apparent disregard for some other sections; ignoring its demonstrable anti-Trump prejudice and ignoring its apparent enthusiasm for the brutal, repressive, misogynistic, Islamist Iranian regime which led it to ignore the popular uprising until shamed into reporting it, we’ll jump straight to the broadcaster’s shameless zeal for promoting a virulently anti-Israel narrative and its parallel enthusiasm for promoting a pro-Palestine one. And not just since October 8, but for the previous 25-plus years when it actively helped disseminate and embed the fake, Soviet-fabricated Palestinian “narrative” of Jewish “oppression” and Arab “victimhood.” And did it so successfully that when an avalanche of anti-Israel lies, libels, disinformation and misinformation crashed across the globe on Oct 8 2023, it was gasoline on a tinder-dry forest. And the BBC didn’t just throw a lighted match, it poured on more petrol and fanned the flames, perhaps leading to the deadly terrorist attack on Heaton Park Synagogue or even –  given the broadcaster’s reach and reputation – to the Bondi attack, too.

We hardly need reminding of the ways in which the BBC fanned the flames of Jew-hate, but with that April Licence-Fee review fast approaching, let’s just review the highlights.

First there was the vocabulary. Within days of the invasion, massacre and mass abductions by Islamist, Jihadist terrorists inside........

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