Raffi Berg: In his own words
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Martin Asser, a senior broadcast journalist, spent eight years on the BBC’s Middle East online desk (2001-9) working with the man who is now BBC Digital Middle East editor, Raffi Berg. Berg is a proud, ardent Zionist. He is currently suing journalist Owen Jones over a piece Jones wrote for Drop Site News in December 2024 about an alleged lack of fairness and impartiality in Israel-Palestine coverage.
In the article posted below, Asser does not mince his words:
“As you will see, Raffi’s writing paraded a succession of omissions, inaccuracies, distortions and solipsisms on the BBC’s web pages. That he rose to a key editorial position adjudicating Israeli-Palestinian content despite this canon of work – or because of it, perhaps – tells you everything you need to know about the corporation’s supposed impartiality.”
Asser has produced a damning analysis of Berg’s work. He reveals a pervasive disdain within the BBC for any narrative other than one that favours Israel. It does not augur well for Berg’s case against Jones.
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This article was originally published by Jadaliyya on Thu 28 May 2026. Read the original here.
Raffi Berg: In his own words
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On the subject of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, this was indeed deliberate. However, the idea for the attack came from the Johnson White House. The fact that the ship was not sunk may be due to some Israeli servicemen who deliberately refused to torpedo it.
Those people probably, at the very least, ensured that Cairo did not get destroyed like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever their motives, we owe them a great deal.
Philip F. Nelson writes:
“The second sign of this most compelling point about Israel’s reluctance, or diffidence, was the failure of their torpedo boats to hit the ship with any of the four torpedoes they fired at it – how is that possible?”
The full article can be seen here:
https://lbjthemasterofdeceit.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/on-the-55th-anniversary-of-the-day-the-u-s-nearly-kick-started-a-nuclear-war-with-the-soviet-union-6-8-1967/