It sounds like a good idea if enough people were to do it. It is possible, however, to take on the BBC and get them to admit bias. Biased BBC reports a success by one of its posters which led to a written apology from Al Beeb, and on no less a subject than persecution of Palestinian Christians by their Muslim neighbours.

http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

See Sunday July 23 "Escalation BBC style" and follow the links.

That doesn't really work that well though except to a self selected audience, Hulday. Many people see the original article. Very few people see the apology - so it's effect is drastically limited.

In many countries in Europe during the Holocaust Jewish communities were forced to pay the costs of their own destruction (literally the costs of transportation in cattle trucks to death camps and so forth). Thus it is with the Jewish community of the United KIngdom and the licence fee for the BBC.

If you wish to stand with the Jews of your nation and against evil do as Mr. Pollard suggests and withhold £11.50 of the licence fee.

A fund needs to be set up to publicise this. I will donate £1,000 to that fund.

Mr. Pollard?

Question – can you get away with paying only part of the fee? Also, when are you coming back to general issues, Stephen? Maybe now that the NATO plan has been agreed to in principle?

Also, that pizza looked mighty good.

I assist a chap over here who is the Minister of Trade and Overseas Economic Co-operation and he asked me on Friday, as a Muslim, what I thought about the Lebanese business. I said I feel for all the Jewish mothers over the past year and for all the Lebanese mothers and every mother who has lost a child to the madness of those who can’t leave well enough alone and just let the countries of the region exist in peace.

He said that if Israel pulled back to the 1967 borders, the Arab world might have to back off, under international scrutiny. This was the import of his talks with other Trade Ministers in the area. He then produced a novel solution – to trade goods rather than weaponry [including rockets, I put in]. Here is a man whose job is to deal with Muslim, Jew and Christian alike and I can’t help thinking how can he do it [in a Muslim country] and those of the Middle-East can’t.

Also, thank goodness other comments are trickling in, which is the spice of life, even if the later comments on the most recent post [The worst BBC bias yet] were occasioned by the zealous vitriol of one particular young man. The danger of becoming ‘a broken record’ is ever present and I apologize, to all, for my own contribution to this.

Truth was, I seriously feared that people like Pete_London, whom I always enjoy reading and who always has an insightful view, might have been driven away or at least dissuaded from commenting. Pommygranate knows what he’s on about too and I, for one, can do with this sort of feedback, just to get it straight in the mind.

Regarding British attitudes, perhaps the most even-handed outline of the מלחמת השחרור is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab-Israeli_War

and then come back to the Jewish version of these events:

http://tinyurl.com/sezj
to put it all in context.

I think it differs somewhat from this:

“They suck it in with their mother's tainted milk. After all they [the British people presumably] are the sons and daughters of the kind of people who beat up Holocaust survivors.” July 23, 2006 11:08 AM

Hope it helps.

"Regarding British attitudes, perhaps the most even-handed outline of the מלחמת השחרור is:"

1) Quite obviously you consider such a piece "the most even-handed" because it is the piece that most accords with your own deeply-held prejudices.

2) Whilst I often quote Wikipedia that is only when the facts are in question, facts which can be checked elsewhere. To rely on Wikipedia as a source for anything else is truly bizarre, especially for a man who was once a teacher (albeit in a high school). It is for that reason I did not also link to the Wikipedia article about the Exodus, even though that article would have added more weight to my argument about the British (it mentions, for example, that: The boarding was challenged by the passengers (the ship was in international waters where the Royal Navy had no jurisdiction), and so the British soldiers used force. Three emigrants died as a result of bludgeoning and several dozen others were injured before the ship was overtaken).

"and then come back to the Jewish version of these events:"

1) Ah, if Jews write a history of events in which they themselves have been involved, you suggest, then such a history cannot be trusted - cannot be "even-handed." The British government and Foreign Office took a similar line when news started filtering back about the enormity of the Holocaust and the gas chambers. The information, the Jew-haters in the British establishment suggested, came from hysterical Jews and thus could not be relied on for a minute.

If anything proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are an anti-Semite it is your statement above. Once again, I can well understand why your pay was docked by that Jewish school. God alone knows what those poor students must have gone through.

2) What I quoted was but a tiny piece in the enormous Middle East jigsaw puzzle (a puzzle in which the British sat at the centre, for all the world like an ugly poisonous spider shooting out its venom at the Jewish community) at that time. Nothing that was contained in that piece can be refuted: the British did forcibly send Holocaust survivors back to Germany, the British did engage in the most horrific acts against Holocaust survivors on the Exodus (and many places elsewhere), international observers were present and were deeply shocked at British actions (as indeed was the entire world). The most damning quote in the piece comes from Abba Eban who was Israel's most internationally distinguished and respected politicans for many decades. The quote is cited in a work by Martin Gilbert, an individual who was Winston Churchill's official biographer and is one of Britain's most renowned historians. Naturally you don't trust them because they are Jews.

I shall be posting more short pieces about the wickedness and duplicity of the British before and during the Holocaust and in pre and post-war Palestine. I hope you can manage to put aside your prejudices, at least in part, for a time and deal with the facts for a change.

"He said that if Israel pulled back to the 1967 borders, the Arab world might have to back off, under international scrutiny. This was the import of his talks with other Trade Ministers in the area. He then produced a novel solution – to trade goods rather than weaponry [including rockets, I put in]. Here is a man whose job is to deal with Muslim, Jew and Christian alike and I can’t help thinking how can he do it [in a Muslim country] and those of the Middle-East can’t."

Your employer (given he actually exists) displays an ignorance of history and reality that is truly breathtaking.