Impartiality?

The BBC's excuse for not showing the Disasters Emergency Committee's appeal is that to do so would 'damage impartiality'. But not to do so does - fatally - damage impartiality; makes it utterly clear that the BBC has no impartiality whatever when dealing with the crisis in Palestine.

This is, I understand, only the second time that the BBC has refused a request from the Disasters Emergency Committee. To what did the first such refusal apply? Lebanon. This is disgraceful and shameful.

It is not 'partisan' to give aid to every person in the area whose children have been burned with white phosphorus, whose homes and workplaces have been destroyed, whose family members have been called out of their homes to be shot in the street. It is not 'partisan' to aid everyone in the conflict zone - Israeli and Palestinian - who has no access to adequate food, no access to clean water, nowhere to bury their dead.

Every such person - Palestinian or Israeli - needs help. The BBC should be appealing for help for all such people.

That would be impartial. This is not.