It is disgusting to see the Left’s romanticisation of terror fanatics Hezbollah spread to the BBC
Soft on terror
IT is not a matter of opinion that Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation. It is a fact.
Not just because it is designated as such by Britain, America and others.
But because it has carried out multiple terrorist atrocities and is funded by the world’s biggest source of terrorism, Iran.
Hezbollah is sworn to the eradication of Israel, rains missiles down on Jewish homes and is violently anti-Semitic.
That seems fine with too many on the Left, themselves openly anti-Semitic or never more than one unguarded remark away from it.
But it is disgusting to see their romanticisation of these racist Islamist paramilitaries spread to the BBC.
Its journalists refuse, as with Hamas, to call Hezbollah the terrorists they are.
Describing them merely as an “armed Lebanese group” hands them a legitimacy which is especially undeserved given they are reviled across the Arab world and by many in Lebanon itself.
As Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick says: “It’s shameful our national broadcaster can’t report the facts accurately. Time we called a spade a spade.”
The corporation insists it routinely avoids using “terrorist” because it carries a “value judgement”.
Odd how this ruling only seems strictly applied to terrorists targeting Israelis.
Why is that?
Growth killer
NO Government focused on growth should even think about raising fuel duty.
Higher pump prices destroy growth and turbo-charge inflation.
They don’t just hit families’ budgets.
They hit businesses, which recoup their higher bills from customers.
All four Tory leadership candidates are backing The Sun’s 15-year Keep It Down campaign, and with good reason.
Comparatively low current forecourt prices cannot be an excuse to end the long freeze on duty.
Make no mistake, Chancellor . . . you have to keep it down.
In the soup
THREE cheers for the moral clarity of the judge who locked up Just Stop Oil hooligans Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland.
Like other brainwashed eco dolts, they have convinced themselves their belief in an imminent climate apocalypse trumps the law the rest of us live by.
So they chucked soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery. This strange, futile tantrum was meant to help prevent “countless millions of innocent people suffering and dying”.
Judge Christopher Hehir told them: “Beliefs aren’t the problem — it’s the crime that’s the problem. Your beliefs do not entitle you to commit actions not permitted to others.” Quite right.
Let’s see the three other JSO halfwits who repeated this stunt yesterday banged up too. No one is above the law.
They’ve volunteered to learn the hard way.