Crickets at Electronic Intifada Over UN Finding Hamas Responsible for BBC Reporter’s Baby Death
Electronic Intifada, the anti-Israel web site run by activist Ali Abuminah, was extremely agitated over what it saw as the failure of the BBC to vociferously condemn Israel for the murder of the 11 month old infant son of BBC journalist Omar Misharawi. In an article titled, When BBC ignores Israeli murder of its own cameraman’s baby, what hope for other Palestinians?
Electronic intifada was shocked by the BBC’s behavior:
One cannot possibly imagine the BBC underplaying the death of family of its own staff in a similar way if they had been killed by, say, Palestinian rocket fire.
Asa Winstanley, the web site’s associate editor, expressed outrage that the BBC exhibited some caution about blaming Israel outright, commenting:
Israel only “accused” of killing 11-month-old son of BBC cameraman Jihad Misharawi by “what his father says was an Israeli shell.”
Now that the UN investigation has concluded that it was a Hamas fired rocket that most likely killed the child, Electronic Intifada has been notably silent.
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