The British Broadcasting Corporation has been accused numerous times over the years of deliberately skewing reports against Israel and in favor of the Palestinians, and came under fire again on Wednesday after senior producer Rosie Garthwaite, who is currently working on a new documentary critical of "Israeli actions" in east Jerusalem, admitted to sharing "inaccurate" pro-Palestinian propaganda on Twitter, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
Her post included a false illustration of maps supposedly related to US President Donald Trump's peace plan, which she posted and subsequently deleted from her personal Twitter page, which dramatically over-stated alleged Palestinian land loss to Israel.
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Garthwaite, no stranger to disseminating anti-Israel propaganda, has also wrongly claimed that Israel controls Gaza's "one" border (although it also shares a border with Egypt), and re-tweeting an article hailing Palestinians activist Ahed Tamimi, who served eight months in Israeli prison for assaulting an IDF officer, as an "icon for Palestinian resistance."
The inaccurate maps, which were circulated on social media in response to senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner's announcement of the peace plan, were brandished by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as he threatened to break ties with Israel and America over the proposals.
The first map wrongly suggested that after the fall of the Ottoman Empire all of the land in what is now Israel, Judea and Samaria and Gaza was controlled by the Palestinians. The final 2020 map deliberately underplayed the amount of territory that would remain under Palestinian control in order to make Israeli ownership of land seem more extreme.
Asked why she had chosen to share the incorrect maps of her Twitter page, a BBC spokesperson told the Jewish Chronicle: "Rosie has actually un-retweeted that map you refer to, she realized it was inaccurate."
Responding to the report, Strategic Affairs Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen told Israel Hayom: "In a reality in which social media sites have become the Wild West for fake news and hate speech, it's sad to see members of an important traditional media outlet fan the flames and spearhead such discourse."
The "Campaign Against Antisemitism," and British NGO established in 2014, said, "The BBC is a serial offender when it comes to anti-Semitism and this is reflected in its poor relations with the Jewish community."
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