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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:
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:
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.
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