Raw Jew-bashing on the BBC

I might post regularly on anti-Israel bias on the BBC, but it's a rare thing to hear full on, open, unambiguous antisemitism. No bothering with referring to 'Zionists' as code for Jews; no challenge to the views; and no attempt to seem anything other than full of hate.

Rare it might be, but as this transcript from Adloyada shows, it was there yesterday on Radio Four's Political Animal:

I'm quite interested in the Middle East, I'm actually studying that Israeli Army martial arts.

And I know sixteen ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.

It's a difficult situation to understand. I've got an analogy which explains the whole thing quite well:

If you imagine that Palestine is a cake. Well, that cake is being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew.

This wasn't some unexpected outburst on a live show. It wasn't something which caught the producer unawares. It was on a pre-recorded programme, Political Animal, which is described on its site as:

...cutting-edge satire from an exciting mix of new and more established acts, Political Animal is an incisive, unpredictable, and richly entertaining show, offering political comedy which reaches far beyond the bounds of Westminster into the broader issues which shape the world today.

In other words, this was considered and approved by the producer, who would have had the chance to edit it if he or she had considered that it might be in some way toublesome or offensive.

We either pay our license fee for this, or get sent to prison.