Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:49 am Post subject: BBC Question Time is show trial to incriminate Galloway
Tonight's Question Time was a orchestrated set up to try to incriminate George Galloway and paint him as an anti-Semite. I have just posted a relatively detailed expose (given the time available) of the backgrounds and connections of other panellists on the show. Tracing these back is extremely revealing. Here is a link to my full article:
Mr Dimbleby [presenter and mediator] told me immediately after the show that the final question posed by the audience was not in fact the question which had been tabled and selected. The last part of the question which sought to put me on show trial, make the final part of the show about me, had merely been added after the fact by the questioner. This has subsequently been admitted by the questioner in the Jewish Chronicle.
But there there [sic] was no point in telling me this in private with an apologetic air (he did not actually apologise, I gave him more credit than he deserved in my initial comments after the show) when millions of people oblivious to the trickery were about to watch the results on the show.
Mr Dimbleby had a couple of options when this ruse occurred:
He could have shot the question again, the show is not live, there is time for editing (although the only person who was edited was me with a chunk of my answer on Bradford schools mysteriously excised).
He could have made it clear on the recording, immediately, that the question had been changed, with obviously potentially defamatory consequences.
He did neither and with predictable results.
He also points an accusing finger toward both Cristina Odone and Tristram Hunt, whilst singling out Jonathan Freedland as “Hypocrite in Chief”:
Quote:
A special place in the hall of shame must go to the Guardian’s executive editor Jonathan Freedland selected for the role of chief prosecutor in the show trial. The Guardian, a faux liberal newspaper which last summer accepted (that which even Rupert Murdoch had declined) a paid full page advertisement from an Israeli organisation while the blood was still running in the streets of Gaza seeking to justify the slaughter and slander the Palestinians, thousands of whom had by then been slain.
There is intense competition for the title of Hypocrite in Chief at The Guardian but Freedland in my view shades it.
Once the doctored question had been posed, he lit the touch paper before smugly stepping well back. He made a series of distorted allegations against me knowing that if I got into rebutting them there would have been no time for the bigger picture. Like a latter day McCarthy he patted a portfolio which he claimed contained the basis for his allegations. Who produced this dodgy dossier must be open to question.
The leaders of some Jewish organisations say the BBC are being 'provocative'
LAMIAT SABIN Author Biography Tuesday 03 February 2015
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George Galloway, leader of the Respect Party, has caused a stir in a constituency that has one of the largest populations of Jewish people in the UK after it was announced that he would appear in the area on Question Time this week.
The broadcaster’s inclusion of the MP, who is a vocal opponent of Israel, was criticised as being “deliberately provocative” by Mike Freer, the MP for Finchley and Golders Green in north London.
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Mr Freer and the Jewish Leadership Council wrote to the BBC calling for his appearance on Thursday to be cancelled and questioned if inviting him was a “responsible move,” according to the Daily Mail.
The MP for Bradford West is to sit on the panel alongside Tory education secretary Nicky Morgan, Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt, deputy chairman of Ukip Suzanne Evans and The Guardian executive editor and columnist Jonathan Freedland.
The politician, who describes himself as anti-Zionist, is known for his strong views against the atrocities inflicted in Palestine and the Gaza Strip amid the on-off war with Israel spanning several decades.
A Palestinian woman pauses amid destroyed buildings in the northern district of Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip during an humanitarian truce A Palestinian woman cries amid destroyed buildings in Gaza Mr Galloway was assaulted in a street attack in August by Neil Masterson – 39, from Kensington – who called him an “anti-Semitic little man” and was subsequently jailed for 16 months in December.
The MP declared his constituency in the Midlands as an “Israel-free zone” and had refused to engage in a debate with a student upon learning that he was Israeli.
Mr Galloway walked out of the Oxford University debate two years ago saying that he had been “misled” and that he does not debate with supporters of Israel as a matter of principle.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews also criticised the BBC for their decision but did not ask for the invite to be retracted.
Supporters of Mr Galloway slammed the protests from within some sections of Jewish communities as being hypocritical and in breach of the notion of freedom of speech.
A BBC spokesperson said: “Question Time invites panellists who reflect a significant range of opinions on a number of different topics. Whilst Mr Galloway’s views are entirely his own, as an MP he has a right to appear on the programme and has done so previously.
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