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BBC Blames Israeli Arab Crime Wave On Israel

Israeli Arab communities have been plagued recently with a crime wave. Israeli Arabs grow up in a culture of violence, just as do many other Muslims; the Qur’an itself is suffused with violence that naturally has an effect on Believers. Dozens of verses instruct Muslims to be violent against Infidels, to “fight’ and to “kill” and to “smite at the necks of” and to “strike terror in the hearts” of the Infidels, but the wider effect is to encourage a societal culture of violence, violence as a habit of being. Muhammad was a warrior, who took part in dozens of military campaigns; he personally helped to behead the 600-900 prisoners of the Banu Qurayza; he asked his followers to “rid him” of those who mocked him – Asma bint Marwan, Abu ‘Afak, and Ka’ab bin al-Ashraf – and all three were killed by those hoping to win favor with the Prophet. It is not surprising, given what is in the Qur’an and hadith, that Islam itself should cause Believers to engage in violence.

A report on how the BCC has covered the Israeli Arab crime wave is here: “Media Uses False Narrative About Arab Israelis to Slander the Jewish State,” by Hadar Sela, Algemeiner, August 16, 2021:

The violence in mixed cities (with both Arabs and Jews), such as Lod and Ramle, began with unprovoked attacks by Arabs on Jews who in response, girded their loins and organized to fight back and give as good as they got. These disturbances had nothing to do with “discrimination” against Israeli Arabs because there was, and is, none; the Arabs in the mixed cities simply wanted to help the Arabs in Hamas-ruled Gaza during the May war, by opening a new front against the Israelis.

Knell echoes the Israeli Arabs who blame Israel for the crime wave in their own communities. She does not explain how much money and effort the Israelis have expended on this problem.

Nor does she discuss the refusal of so many Israeli Arabs to report crimes or criminals to the police, out of a quite baseless distrust of Israeli authorities. The local Arab leaders do nothing to ameliorate this problem; instead of encouraging the Arabs to collaborate with the police, they simply repeat the claim — which is then disseminated by the BBC, and such reporters as Yolande Knell — that the crime wave is the fault not of the criminals, but of the Israelis, who are accused of ignoring the problem because they supposedly don’t care about the wellbeing of Israeli Arabs: “They [victims and perpetrators] are Arabs, so let them kill themselves.” Those one billion shekels Israel just allocated to catch criminals, and reduce crime, in Arab communities, suggests quite otherwise.

But why should we be surprised at Yolande Knell’s take on things? She works, after all, for the BBC, where such Israel-haters as John Simpson, Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet, and Orla Guerin have for decades been poisoning the minds of hundreds of millions of listeners, causing them to despise Israel as a nasty little settler-colonial state, and to feel deep sympathy for the Palestinians and their supposed “plight.”

To this list of Israel-haters – John Simpson, Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet, Orla Guerin – we can now add the name of Yolande Knell, latest and, one hopes, least of the lot. But what did you expect? She is, after all, coming to the world from Bush House in London — that is, the BBC.

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Gillian Beck 06:44 26.08.2021
Appalling behaviour from the BBC. God will deal with these people and the Corporation in His own time. As a Christian, I wholeheartedly stand with Israel.
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