Following weeks of backlash the BBC will reportedly no longer refer to Hamas as “militants” opting instead to describe them as “a proscribed terrorist organisation” or simply “Hamas.” This shift in policy by the public service broadcaster was announced by the Board of Deputies of British Jews in a press release on Friday, after the

    • TWeaK
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      1711 months ago

      They were put under pressure because Israel pressures everyone to support them, usually with some form of threat.

      • @TokenBoomer
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        411 months ago

        Wouldn’t threats from Israel also be terrorism?

        • @emax_gomax
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          311 months ago

          Well terrorism isn’t purely a threat, its actual violence with the goal of demotivating or convincing an enemy to submit to your demands. But I get your point.

        • @WhatAmLemmy
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          11 months ago

          According to Israel, because of historic persecution, no jew can ever be racist, genocidal, nationalist, fascist, corrupt, a war criminal… or anything else that’s considered bad… and if evidence results in you believing otherwise, you’re an anti-semite!

    • Billiam
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      We’re not calling them terrorists; we’re just saying others call them terrorists.”