Check out how the BBC spins the anti-Israeli bias of a British professor who refused to admit an Israeli student to his doctoral program because – as he put it himself – “I have a huge problem with the way that the Israelis take the moral high ground from their appalling treatment in the Holocaust, and then inflict gross human rights abuses on the Palestinians because they [the Palestinians] wish to live in their own country.” Here’s the BBC version:
A professor who rejected a student’s application because he had been in the Israeli army has been suspended by Oxford University. Professor Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology, emailed the student saying he would not enrol “someone who had served in the Israeli army”.
Yes, the Beeb offers some routine boilerplate on how the professor emoted about the plight of the Palestinians. But it seriously minimizes the real content of the professor’s animus. You could over-look this, I guess. But coming from the BBC, whose visceral hostility toward Israel teeters on the edge of anti-Semitism, it’s worrying. Besides, don’t almost all Israelis have to serve at some point in the military?
The Dish 