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* In March 2022:<ref>MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1509503848125288448 March 31, 2022]):<blockquote>
* In March 2022:<ref>MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1509503848125288448 March 31, 2022]):<blockquote>
British-Palestinian Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan Praises Hadera, Israel Shooters: I Am Truly Happy That Palestinians from Within Israel's 1948 Borders Took Up Arms and Killed Israeli Police Officers; This Spoiled the Negev Summit.</blockquote>https://t.co/L4dbkDEb4V</ref> Atwan praised the (03/22/2022) [[ISIS]] "Palestinian" terror killing in Hadera, Israel.
British-Palestinian Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan Praises Hadera, Israel Shooters: I Am Truly Happy That Palestinians from Within Israel's 1948 Borders Took Up Arms and Killed Israeli Police Officers; This Spoiled the Negev Summit.</blockquote>https://t.co/L4dbkDEb4V</ref> Atwan praised the (03/22/2022) [[ISIS]] "Palestinian" terror killing in Hadera, Israel.
* In November 2022, Atwan appears as expressing sympathy for Sir Salman’s assailant.<ref>
[https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/bbc's-defence-of-atwan-makes-its-hypocrisy-clear BBC’s defence of Atwan makes its hypocrisy clear], ''The JC'', 2 September, 2022.<blockquote>
Previously the BBC has behaved as if it doesn’t matter what Bari Atwan has said elswhere. This week the JC asked the BBC to respond to his expression of sympathy for Sir Salman’s assailant in the US last month on its own News Channel. Bari Atwan told viewers that the Satanic Verses "is blasphemy completely and it is offensive", that Rushdie "was very, very cruel" and that "to talk about the wives of the Pro-phet is really very, very dangerous...freedom of expression is practiced only to insult Muslims."
Such grotesque views are Bari Atwan’s stock in trade. Indeed, on the same day as as he attacked Sir Salman Rushdie on the BBC, he defended in an online piece Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to apologise for the mass murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The BBC’s response to its broadcasting these views was to describe Bari Awan’s appearance as "editorially justified".
It went on: "If extreme views are expressed on the BBC, we would always seek to challenge them."
Clearly the BBC considers describing Sir Salman Rushdie as a "very very dangerous" blasphemer is not extreme, since Bari Atwan was not challenged.</blockquote></ref>
At first, BBC has refused to back down after a former Governor of the corporation said<ref name=deech-letter-to-bbc-sep2022>Ruth Deech, [https://www.thejc.com/news/news/in-full-baroness-deechs-letter-to-the-bbc-6j1zBcuOEXaHxwbVDThCWj In full: Baroness Deech's letter to the BBC], Sep 2, 2022.</ref> its coverage of the Salman Rushdie attack "could amount to glorifying terrorism", the JC can reveal.<ref>Jonathan Sacerdoti, [https://www.thejc.com/news/news/peer-attacks-bbc-for-glorifying-terrorism Peer attacks BBC for 'glorifying terrorism'], ''The JC'', Sep 1, 2022.
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Abdel Bari Atwan appeared to express sympathy for the Rushdie assailant’s extremism on the BBC News Channel.</i></ref>