The Useful Idiot

We monitor BBC 5Live Messageboards and also have information about who posts there. Recently there have been a spate of arguments about Israel and The Palestinians. One of the features is that known Antisemite posters like "Brandon", "pak4life", "GENRAL FFC" , "Cerebrus" have been goading other posters with more than a few lies. (we wonder if BBC would allow a poster to call themselves "yid4life")

Consequently, one of the main defenders of the truth has told us that their account has now been subject to pre-moderation for absolutely no reason other than they are prepared to not let other posters get away with lies and Antisemitic comments. It is possible that their account has been sanctioned simply for complaining too much. Yet, if the volume of bile increases so the number of complaints goes up. The answer is to complain from a pc that has never had a BBC 5Live cookie.

We then learn of an even MORE disturbing case where someone with a new posting account had made a few posts under the mandatory rule that all new posters are subject to pre-moderator status. They made a few posts that had nothing to do with any Israel/Palestinian issue. Spotted a poster who was praising Hezbollah and said they hoped Hezbollah would take back Shebaa Farms from Israel.

This new poster happened to know that Shebaa Farms is recognised by the UN as being part of Syria and subject to negotiations between Israel and Syria. The poster merely pointed this out by referencing a quote from and Israeli website quoting an Israeli govt position - and the next thing they discovered was the post was Hidden and they have been locked out of posting at BBC 5Live.

On this basis we feel we can state that this indicates an extreme prejudice by BBC against anyone prepared to defend the position of Israel against the lies they allow to be posted at 5Live.