**They also stuck with unsubstantiated accusations that the Jews, collectively, killed Jesus.
**
Norwich, England, November 26 - The British Broadcasting Corporation continued to uphold the original reportage regarding the 1144 kidnapping and murder of a twelve-year-old boy, which in the immediate aftermath of the incident locals accused Jews of perpetrating, despite the lack of evidence at the time and despite the impossibility of the claim having become even more manifest in the many centuries since.
The first recorded blood libel against Jews in Europe, falsely accusing them of ritual murder, occurred in the middle of the twelfth century, sparking antisemitic riots and forming a template for untold numbers of similar episodes over the next nine hundred years. These include the modern phenomenon of widespread public acceptance of accusations that Israel kills Palestinians indiscriminately, when the cited incidents turn out not to have happened, or been perpetrated by Palestinians themselves, such as an Islamic Jihad rocket that hit the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza city in October but the BBC and other outlets ran with the immediate reports by Hamas that hundreds had died in an Israeli bombing of the facility. It later emerged that not only had the blast resulted from a Palestinian misfire, but that it had hit not the hospital itself but a parking lot, and the death toll numbered in the dozens at most. The BBC maintained its initial version long after the clear facts of the case had been publicized.
The BBC similarly still has on its website uncorrected headlines regarding the death of Jesus of Nazareth, whom the Roman authorities in Judea executed by crucifixion approximately two thousand years ago. The BBC initially ran with unsubstantiated accusations that the Jews, collectively, had killed the preacher, and have yet to amend the headline or issue a correction despite repeated demonstrations of its untenability.
The BBC has, however, issued a correction to a story it reported in November 1938. On the night of November 9th of that year, an organized pogrom across the Third Reich targeted Jews, Jewish enterprises, and Jewish community institutions; the mobs killed dozens, looted and destroyed businesses, deported hundreds to concentration camps, and burned down synagogues. The Nazis called the event, later dubbed Kristallnacht, a "spontaneous" reaction by the German people to the attempted assassination of a German official in Paris by a Jew whose parents were facing Nazi abuse. The BBC parroted that description of events even in the face of ample evidence of meticulous Nazi planning and recruitment for the violence, which took place on the anniversary of Hitler's failed coup attempt in 1925 that catapulted him to national prominence. The BBC's correction also noted that some dispute that the Holocaust occurred.
Please support our wok through Patreon.
Buy In The Biblical Sense: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B92QYWSL