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PSNA Complaint About TVNZ Reporting Upheld By The Broadcasting Standards Authority
It was good to see this PSNA complaint against TVNZ reporting upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
TVNZ showed film which they claimed was of "anti-semitic violence" by Dutch football fans attacking Israeli football fans on the streets of Amsterdam last November. TVNZ described the scenes as disturbing.
The film actually showed the opposite - violent attacks on Dutch fans by Israeli hooligans who had engaged in racist "Death to Arabs" chants and attacks on Palestinians and Palestinian flags prior to the game.
We pointed out the error quickly but TVNZ refused to issue an apology and said it didn't really matter because the mayor of Amsterdam had said there were anti-semitic attacks so the TVNZ mistake was minor.
Imagine if the situation had been reversed. TVNZ would have bent over backwards to issue grovelling apologies to the pro-Israel lobby.
TVNZ's reporting over the past 18 months has been relentlessly pro-Israel. They have centred Israeli narratives, Israeli excuses, Israeli explanations, Israeli propaganda points and Israeli spokespeople. Palestinian voices have been sidelined and given rudimentary coverage if at all.
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