{"id":372741,"date":"2018-08-09T20:22:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israeli-spokesman-uses-angry-twitter-diplomacy-to-directly-accuse-bbc-of-bias-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:22:05","slug":"israeli-spokesman-uses-angry-twitter-diplomacy-to-directly-accuse-bbc-of-bias-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israeli-spokesman-uses-angry-twitter-diplomacy-to-directly-accuse-bbc-of-bias-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli spokesman uses angry Twitter diplomacy to directly accuse BBC of bias \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman left diplomatic niceties aside, heading straight to Twitter to accuse the BBC of lying in a story headlined \u201cIsraeli airstrikes \u2018kill woman and baby.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Emmanuel Nahshon angrily tagged BBC World and informed them that his tweet constituted a \u201cformal complaint by the Israeli Foreign Ministry<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.@BBCWorld<\/a> this is a formal complaint by @IsraelMFA<\/a> .This title is a deliberate misrepresentation of reality ( that\u2019s the polite equivalent of \u201c this is a LIE\u201d, if you don\u2019t get it). Israelis were targeted by Hamas and IDF acts to protect them.Change it IMMEDIATELY!!! @IsraelMFA<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/pqjXuopXgO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) August 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Nahshon was angry at what he perceived to be a lack of context because, while the headline used was not strictly false, he was\u00a0upset that it didn\u2019t explain that Israel\u2019s airstrikes came in response to over 100 rockets being fired into southern Israel from the Gaza strip, injuring a number of civilians.<\/p>\n

The BBC caved in to Nahshon’s demand and changed the headline of the story.<\/p>\n

The Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman is on his way to becoming the scourge of nervous headline writers everywhere with his Twitter tirades. He used the same method to hit out at CNN late last month, again demanding that a headline be rewritten.<\/p>\n

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No @cnni<\/a> !!! You got it wrong and not for the first time – an Israeli soldier was killed by #Hamas<\/a> and #IDF<\/a> retaliated, protecting its country and citizens against murderous terrorists. By misrepresenting the facts you manipulate against #Israel<\/a>! @cnni<\/a>– STOP YOUR MANIPULATION !<\/p>\n

\u2014 Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Nahshon\u2019s main claim, often repeated, is that the Israeli Defense Force only ever strikes in retaliation and to suggest otherwise is a manipulation of the facts.<\/p>\n

He told Ynetnews in July<\/a> that: \u201cWe in the Foreign Ministry are on guard 24 hours a day. We would not let international media deliberately distort the events taking place in Israel and in our region. We will respond to every distorted headline and demand its immediate correction.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

When the United Nations overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning what it called Israel\u2019s \u201cuse of any excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force<\/em>\u201d against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in June, Nahshon was back on Twitter to label the resolution \u201cone-sided<\/em>\u201d and \u201canti-Israel<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n