The BBC has a long history of slanted reporting, as is seen by its use of language. According to the BBC, there are no Arab terrorists, only "militants"; any jew who is more right-wing than them (or the israeli intelligentia) is a "right-wing extremist"; the Palestinians are always "reporting" what happen (i.e., giving the facts) while the israelis "claim" or "allege" that this or that happened (i.e., they might be lying, and in any case are just giving personal opinion).
In addition to language, everything is set in an anti-israeli context. Generally speaking, any Palestinian attack is seen as being "provoked" and is explained/excused away as much as possible, but israeli actions are almost invariably seen as "excessive", etc., etc.
Also, their "human rights" concerns are strictly one-sided. Concern about the Palestinians' civil rights are only important when the civil right violations (whatever their justification) can be blamed on israel. The actions of the Palestinian factions against their own people are passed over in silence, as the jews cannot be blamed; nor is there a whisper of a hint of a possiblity that, just maybe, a war of terror and annihilation against israel might violate israelis' civil rights to some degree as well.
Finally, some things the BBC is just too polite to speak about. Things like the PLO and Hamas' charter dedication to israel's destruction--let alone numerous such pronouncements from Palestinian leaders, "activists", religious figures, etc.--are treated in the BBC with embarrasment, something that shouldn't be talked about publically, as if they were military secrets; and in any case they are surely irrelevant to undestanding the situation.
Is this antisemitism? Possibly... but it's equaly likely that the BBC simply is so wrapped up in the European intelligentia's "sophiticated moral outlook"--"Palestinians are victims, so anything they do is justified and good or at least not their fault; israelies are evils, so we must be outraged with them"--it cannot afford to think differently. This seems to me not so much bias against jews in particular or for Palestinians in particular, but an attempt to protect a larger world view.
The very core of the European Intelligentia's "sophistical moral world view" is, of course, that the world is divided into "victims" and "opressors", and that one's moral worth is determined by (a) demanding as little as possible--preferably nothing at all--in the way of decency or responsiblity from anybody who is declared a "victim", and (b) expressing public, and vocal, outrage and shock at anybody who is an "opressor".
The idea that being a "victim" does not absolve one from responsibility for one's actions, or that one's moral righteousness is not actually determined by the amount of public moral outrage one directs at the "opressor" du jour, must at all costs be kept at bay or else the whole worldview collapses, and with it one's sense of moral superiority.
Thus, the Palestinians simply must be allowed to do anything at all, and the israelis must always be blamed--to save the victimology worldview, which, according to the European intelligentia, is the most precious thing one can have.
