The problem with Laura Kuenssberg, and others at the BBC, is not that they discussed antisemitism after the Golders Green stabbings. It’s the way they did…
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The problem with Laura Kuenssberg, and others at the BBC, is not that they discussed antisemitism after the Golders Green stabbings.
It’s the way they did…
After two Jewish men were stabbed in the London suburb, here’s what Kuenssberg’s colleague Paddy O’Connell said:
(CLIP) O’Connell: “What lies at the heart of it is an argument over when people take their hatred for the actions of the Israeli state to a read across to behave against Jews. That’s the kind of starting point for the problems, because people who feel desperately angry at the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu are many and multiple and some of them live in Israel, some of them are Jewish people, so the big error, the big crime, is the read across to attack Jewish people in Britain assuming you know what they think, assuming you know their political views because they’re Jewish”
Kuenssberg didn’t bother challenging these shallow remarks, and instead doubled down.
(CLIP) Kuenssberg: “And it’s the oldest form of racism in the world it’s sometimes known as that, antisemitism, that has been given a grim new life by the realities of conflict in the Middle East”
Would BBC journalists ever dare respond to attacks on Muslims by saying people were just angry about the policies of any Muslim country?
Jews are NOT responsible for people hating Jews. And the BBC cannot keep pretending otherwise.
See also “The BBC is failing, just when it should be more vigilant,” by CAMERA’s Leah Benoz at JNS.