#Jeremy Bowen

[eretzyisrael]

by Hadar Sela

“More than 50 journalists have sent an open letter calling on Israel and Egypt to provide “free and unfettered access to Gaza for all foreign media”.

The letter is signed by correspondents and presenters for broadcasters with UK bases, including the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet and Mishal Husain.

It says the need for comprehensive on-the-ground reporting is “imperative”. […]

The letter calls on Israel’s government to “openly state its permission for international journalists to operate in Gaza”.

It also asks Egyptian authorities to allow foreign press access to the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza.”

In addition to Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet and Mishal Husain, the other thirteen BBC journalists who signed the letter include Orla Guerin, Clive Myrie, Fergal Keane, Quentin Sommerville and Tom Bateman.

The next morning, Jeremy Bowen put out the following Tweet:

That edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ was aired on February 17th and Bowen’s piece is the lead item (from 00:37 here). 

“International media have been campaigning to gain access to Gaza in the months since the Israeli bombardment began – with only occasional access granted, which is closely supervised by the Israeli military. More often, news organisations have relied on Palestinian journalists already living and working in Gaza, who continue to operate under dangerous conditions. Jeremy Bowen reflects on the difficulties of telling the story of the Israel-Gaza war.”

Bowen: “Israel and Egypt – the two countries that control the borders – don’t let international journalists into the Gaza Strip. […]

I can only surmise that Israel is not allowing reporters to work freely inside Gaza because their soldiers are doing things they do not want us to see.”

Later in the item, Bowen refers to the case against Israel brought to the ICJ by South Africa, claiming that “the court has ruled that Israel has a plausible case to answer on allegations of genocide”. After that debatable interpretation of the court’s ruling, Bowen goes on to tell BBC audiences that:

Bowen: “…foreign journalists might uncover evidence that backs up those accusations of war crimes as well as the even more serious one of genocide. Till we get in, we’ll never know.”

In other words, Jeremy Bowen – and presumably his co-signatories too – would have the public believe that only reporting on the ground in the Gaza Strip by him and his colleagues can provide an accurate account of what is happening there.

That assertion, however, is not even remotely supported by the records of Bowen and others among the signatories when they have been given free access to report from the Gaza Strip in the past. Here are just a few examples:

In 2012, Bowen (and others) tried to persuade BBC audiences that an Israeli operation against Hamas was in fact part of an election campaign:

EXAMINING THE BBC’S PORTRAYAL OF OPERATION ‘PILLAR OF CLOUD’ AS ISRAELI ELECTIONEERING

During the same operation, BBC journalists vigorously promoted a story concerning the death of the son of a BBC employee which was later shown to be inaccurate. Jeremy Bowen was the corporation’s Middle East editor at the time.

REVISITING A FIVE YEAR-OLD BBC STORY

During the 2014 conflict, Bowen promoted unverified casualty figures and devoted considerable energy to denial of Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields while providing amplification for accusations of ‘war crimes’ and ignoring the issue of shortfall missiles.

BBC CLAIMS THAT ISRAEL TARGETED A CENTRE FOR THE DISABLED IN GAZA SHOWN TO BE INACCURATE

HAMAS PR DEPARTMENT INVOKES BBC’S BOWEN

BBC’S BOWEN SAW NO HUMAN SHIELDS IN GAZA – BUT REPORTS THEM IN MOSUL

IN WHICH THE BBC’S JEREMY BOWEN REPEATS HIS ‘NO HUMAN SHIELDS IN GAZA’ CLAIMS

During the same 2014 conflict, the BBC’s Lyse Doucet produced remarkably little – and distinctly unhelpful – reporting on the topic of Hamas’ tunnel system as well as reporting from locations in Gaza including the Shuja’iya neighbourhood.

BBC FAILS TO ADEQUATELY INFORM AUDIENCES ON TERRORIST TUNNELS (AND WORSE)

TWENTY-THREE SECONDS OF BBC REPORTING ON GAZA TUNNELS

EXAMINING LYSE DOUCET’S CLAIM THAT SHE REPORTED NEW HAMAS TUNNELS ON BBC

BBC’S DOUCET PROMOTES AND AMPLIFIES HAMAS “MASSACRE” PROPAGANDA ON WS RADIO

BBC NEWS PASSES UP ON THE CHANCE TO CORRECT GAZA MISINFORMATION

Orla Guerin’s contributions to BBC coverage of the 2014 conflict included promotion of unverified Hamas-supplied casualty figures and the notion of Israeli ‘occupation’ of the Gaza Strip nine years after disengagement. Like her colleague Jeremy Bowen, Guerin also saw no evidence of Hamas’ use of human shields during her time reporting from the Gaza Strip.

ORLA GUERIN’S PARTING SHOT BREACHES BBC EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

BBC COMPLAINTS: ‘IT WAS HARD FOR JOURNALISTS IN GAZA TO SEE ROCKETS BEING FIRED’

In 2018 Jeremy Bowen misled BBC audiences on the topic of the background to the ‘Great Return March’.

BBC’S MIDDLE EAST EDITOR ‘EXPLAINS’ GAZA VIOLENCE

In 2021 Bowen produced a particularly egregious report about deaths caused by a shortfall missile.

BBC’S JEREMY BOWEN REWRITES THE BEIT HANOUN SHORTFALL ROCKET INCIDENT

In other words, even at times when BBC journalists have had free access to the Gaza Strip during periods of violence and armed conflict, their physical presence on the ground did not guarantee accurate and impartial coverage. 

Indeed, the current conflict demonstrates precisely how years of serial BBC avoidance of topics such as the Hamas tunnel network, weapons smuggling, Hamas’ use of human shields and its abuse of civilian facilities such as hospitals, schools, universities and mosques have been profoundly unhelpful to members of the BBC’s funding public who are now trying to understand the background to the events since October 7th. 

[indizombie]

A refugee family speaking on condition that their identities were kept secret talked about life in a town near Beirut where a curfew has been imposed on Syrians. The children have been thrown out of school. The turmoil in their lives is clear in their teenage daughter's anguished artwork. Their father views the authoritarian Arab leaders embrace of Bashar al-Assad with contempt - and fear. "The Assad regime is a dictatorship - the same as the other Arab regimes. They're helping each other, cooperating against the people."

Jeremy Bowen, ‘Syria: Dismay and fear as Bashar al-Assad returns to Arab fold’, BBC

[rayhaber]

İsrail'in Hava Saldırıları ve İran'ın Tepkisi

İsrail’in Hava Saldırıları Sonrası Tahran’da Hayat Devam Ediyor Getty Images, İsrail’in gerçekleştirdiği hava saldırılarının ardından Tahran’da yaşamın normal seyrinde devam ettiğini gösteriyor. İsrail’in Cuma gecesi İran’ın askeri üslerine düzenlediği saldırıların ardından, İran, Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) Anlaşması’nın 51. Maddesi’ne dayanarak “kendini savunma hakkına ve yükümlülüğüne sahip…

[jontycrane]

Best of 2023 - Books

Thanks to extensive travels and listening to a lot of audiobooks while hiking I read ~170 books this year. This was down on the pandemic records of 308 in 2020 and 210 in 2021 but still a pretty decent tally. As usual more than two thirds were history or travel related, with the others a mix of biography, fiction, essays, and politics. These are the ones that stayed with me the…

[peoplefromheaven]

Books I read in November:

-How do you live by Genzaburo Yoshino

-the little book of Chanel by Emma Baxter-wright

-the making of the modern Middle East by Jeremy Bowen

-the v1rgin su1c1des by Jeffrey Eugenides

-animal farm by George Orwell

[sinoeurovoices]

以色列加沙戰爭爆發四周後的五個新現實

傑里米-鮑文（Jeremy Bowen） – BBC國際事務編輯，發自以色列南部 自10月7日哈馬斯發動襲擊以來，各種報道、分析和評論紛至沓來，首先要明白的一點是，沒有人知道事情的全部真相。不僅像以往一樣，難以穿透戰爭迷霧，弄清戰場上發生了什麼，以色列人和巴勒斯坦人之間衝突的新形式尚未出現。 事態仍在迅速發展。戰爭可能蔓延的擔憂非常真實。中東的新現實已經出現，但其形態和運作方式取決於，這場戰爭在今年餘下的時間裏、甚至更長時間內將如何發展。 以下是我們知道的事情，還有一些我們不知道的情況。這份清單並非詳盡。有些人嘲笑2003年美國入侵伊拉克時其國防部長唐納德·拉姆斯菲爾德（Donald…

[cannibalcreeps]

Arcade's punishment for being a sassy smart mouth is helping Lily with Bighorner washup

[kentjohnson91]

More Textposts but they’re all the same text thingy and it’s my fav (not) father son duos🫶🏻

[allforthesapphic]

found this in the drafts. past me is screaming crying throwing up knowing they get a whole series dedicated to them (also throwback to when everyone called alvarez sara) (also the ricky bowen tag wtf?? ig he’s my fave trojan!!!)

[leafsbabe]

Which guy(s) do you think would respond best to an edging (besides Matty ofc)

hmm let's see

Jake Debrusk

Jeremy Swayman

Bowen Byram

Dylan Cozens

Tyson Jost

Moritz Seider

Cole Caufield

Josh Norris

Matthew Knies

Kent Johnson

Jack Hughes

Matt Rempe

Jamie Drysdale

Joel Farabee

Travis Konecny

Kailer Yamamoto

Trevor Zegras

Vince Dunn

Quinn Hughes

Tyler Seguin

Kasperi Kapanen

[watchingdiary]

modern family

Type: Serial/Movie

Genre: Sitcom, Mockumentary

Number of Season(s): 11

Running Years: 2009-2020

Creators: Christopher Lloyd & Steven Levitan

Personally, this show can be considered as my comfort show. The main focus of this show is something that is close to me on a daily basis, something that I counter with everyday. Modern Family has made me feel that I am not alone in this world with family issues, since everywhere I look at, especially my friends, they all seem like have harmonious family. Although that may be the surface only, Modern Family has assured me the reality of the world we live in is no perfect, including our own family. This show has showed me that it is okay to not have the perfect family and be stuck with them because not everything that happens in this world is under our control. Moreover, the time I watch this show was when I am almost at the end of my school-university-study life and about to face the real world. The trial-and-errors that Haley had and the meltdown that Alex had, all represent something that I feel during this specific period of time. Especially, Haley, her experience taught me that it is okay to not everything in my life figured out yet the moment you graduated from school and it is okay to not be financially independent immediately. All that matters is that you do not stop trying from pursuing your goals and dreams. Her experience has showed me that it is okay to not have the perfect woman life that fictional stories or media depict us.

[milliondollarbaby87]

Totally Killer (2023) Review

The return of the infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer” after 35 years since the frist murder spree to claim another victim, sends 17 year old Jamie back in time to 1987 in an attempt to work out the killer and stop it all before he can even start. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

[indizombie]

Lebanon, small and poor, has had to tolerate well over a million Syrians fleeing the war. That is the equivalent of a quarter of the Lebanese population - something like the UK accepting over 15 million refugees. Now many Lebanese have had enough, making Syrians a convenient scapegoat for their own country's chronic economic and political problems. In the last few weeks, the army has deported around 1,500 of them back over the border at gunpoint, sometimes leaving children behind in Lebanon or forcing children out without their parents.

Jeremy Bowen, ‘Syria: Dismay and fear as Bashar al-Assad returns to Arab fold’, BBC

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En 1987 había mucho tiempo que matar… “Dulces y Sangrientos 16”

35 años después del estremecedor asesinato de tres adolescentes, el infame ‘Sweet Sixteen Killer’ regresa en la noche de Halloween por una cuarta víctima. Jamie de 17 años, ignora la advertencia de su madre sobre protectora y se encuentra cara a cara con el demente asesino.

Mientras corre por su vida, accidentalmente viaja de regreso en el tiempo a 1987, el año de los asesinatos originales. Obligada a navegar por la desconocida y extraña cultura de la década de 1980, Jamie hace equipo con su madre de adolescente para derrotar al asesino de una vez por todas, antes de que se quede atorada en el pasado para siempre.

Estreno: 6 de octubre de 2023 en Prime Video.

La película está dirigida por Nahnatchka Khan y cuenta con las actuaciones de Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro, Troy L. Johnson, Liana Liberato, Kelcey Mawema, Stephi Chin Salvo, Anna Diaz, Ella Choi, Jeremy Monn Djasngar, Nathaniel Appiah, Jonathan Potts, Randall Park, Julie Bowen, entre otros.

[experienceandobservation]

Jeremy Allen White | Disney's Hulu on Disney+ Star-Studded Celebration | April 05, 2024 | 📷 Brian Bowen Smith

[anarchywoofwoof]

things in Jabalya appear to be bleak. one of the few journalists left in Gaza was literally live tweeting his own potential death. Jablya has been radio silent for 4~ hours now. there is an outright massacre taking place right now at the hands of Israel, aided and abetted by the United States government