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British Jews have harsh words for the BBC following its coverage of an antisemitic incident in LondonThe Board of Deputies of British Jews, the main body representing the interests of Jews in the UK, has accused the BBC of falsely alleging that victims of a recent antisemitic incident in London had provoked their attackers with an anti-Muslim slur.
The Boards president, Marie van der Zyl, published an op-ed Thursday in the Jewish Chronicle of London saying the BBC had made a colossal error in its coverage of the Nov. 29 incident. The public broadcaster had previously reported that several young men caught on video harassing a Chabad-affiliated bus of Jews publicly celebrating Hanukkah were reacting to an anti-Muslim slur from one of the Jews on the bus; the Boards own analysis of video from the scene determined that none of the Jews on the bus had said anything Islamophobic.
The supposed slur, which the BBC insists is there, is nothing but fiction, van der Zyl wrote in the Jewish Chronicle. This raises serious questions about deep-seated biases within the BBC towards Israelis, and towards Jews in general.
The Board has criticized the BBC occasionally in the past over its coverage of Israel, but van der Zyls op-ed marked its harshest critique yet of the broadcaster. It followed a Dec. 14 protest outside the BBC headquarters organized by an antisemitism watchdog group, at which attendees held signs reading, BBC News: Stop Blaming Jews!
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(Jewish Group) British Jews have harsh words for the BBC following its coverage of an antisemitic... (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Dec 2021
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madaboutharry
(41,411 posts)1. What a surprise, not.
Anti-Semitism in the U.K. is baked in.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,411 posts)2. Anti-Jewish attitudes in the wstern world is baked in
Look what happens everywhere.
Even in the Eastern world. Korea had a bar called Hitler. I saw them selling Hitler playing cards and wearing Hitler shirts in China. And if I have a stamp from Israel in my passport, Malaysia would never have let me in.