The Editorial Guidelines make clear impartiality is resistant to simple quantification and does not require precise equivalence in language.  In this case the fact an Israeli policeman was described as being “lightly wounded” whereas the extent of injuries sustained by Palestinian protesters was not similarly qualified, was not therefore evidence of bias.  In the ECU’s view listeners were given sufficient information to understand what had happened and who was involved, including that a group of Palestinians had barricaded themselves into the mosque and refused to leave, and had aimed fireworks and rocks at the police, who had responded with rubber bullets.

Not Upheld