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BBC debate on ‘whether anti-Zionism should be a protected characteristic’ is a gross insult, says Board

The discussion is planned for Radio 4

January 7, 2022 18:32
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London, UK - July 3, 2014: BBC head office and square in front of main entrance with walking people
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The BBC has come under fresh fire from the Board of Deputies for hosting a debate on whether anti-Zionism should be a protected characteristic.

 Board President Marie van der Zyl called the debate, planned for Radio 4’s Sunday programme, a “grotesque insult to an overwhelming majority of British Jews”.

 The programme risks further souring relations between the BBC and the Jewish community amid an ongoing row over its reporting of the antisemitic attack on Jewish teenagers in Oxford Street.

 Director General Tim Davie is due to meet with the Board this month as the BBC faces a barrage of criticism over its handling of the November 29 attack in which students out celebrating Chanukah were spat at, forcing them to take refuge in their hire bus from a gang of thugs who were filmed banging on the widows, shouting abuse and making Nazi salutes.

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