The taxpayer funded national broadcaster has been accused of misleading the public in its coverage of Israel and Palestine tensions, with a Jewish group concerned it could be “malicious”.
A Jewish organisation has filed a complaint against the ABC for allegedly biased reporting over the Israel Palestine conflict, saying they fear the public broadcaster has demonstrated a pattern of “distorted reporting”.
The latest complaint about the publicly funded broadcaster followed a story at the weekend about a Palestinian terrorist who shot dead a Tel Aviv city patrol inspector, before being killed himself by second municipal worker.
The ABC’s headline on the story reads: “Palestinian man killed in Tel Aviv shooting that leaves another critically wounded.”
The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) filed an official complaint on Monday and says it has raised multiple similar complaints over the ABC’s coverage of Israel recently and wants to know what disciplinary action will be taken.
It alleges that by omitting the context of it being a terrorist attack the headline was misleading to the public.
News agency Reuters reported the same incident with the headline: “Palestinian attack leaves one Israeli dead in Tel Aviv, shooter killed.”
“The ABC has an extraordinary long and disgraceful record of anti-Israel bias,” AJA president Dr David Adler said.
“The ABC will go out of their way to omit the terrorism aspect of the story.
“We have a portfolio of incidents that goes back many years and runs to about 65 pages.
Read the article by Clarissa Bye in The Daily Telegraph.