The BBC has really stuck their foot in it. According to multiple reports, Jewish staff were forbidden to attend today’s Antisemitism Awareness March.

BBC staff have accused the corporation of double standards after they were told not to attend a march against anti-Semitism this weekend. Staff working in current affairs and factual journalism who have sought permission to go to the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism march in London have been referred to impartiality rules.

You see, it’s a very problematic march. One that could have bad repercussions if BBC were known to attend. 

According to U.K. outlet The Times, the upcoming National Solidarity March Against Antisemitism was deemed too “controversial” for the network’s employees — even its Jewish ones — to attend.

BBC employees, including reporters and senior management, alleged that the network would not let them attend the upcoming rally. The march “is set to be the largest demonstration in support of British Jews since the 1936 Battle of Cable Street,” according to Campaign Against Antisemitism, the group organizing the event.

Supposedly, since this isn’t a commemorative march as in honoring those who’ve fallen in service to Britain, then they aren’t allowed to attend.

The rules stipulate that staff in those divisions should not participate in public demonstrations or gatherings about controversial issues.

Individuals who have asked to take part in previous pro-Palestinian marches are understood to have received similar instructions.

Staff who have suggested the rules should not apply to a protest against antisemitism have been told that the event cannot be categorised as “commemorative or celebratory”.

It has also been deemed as a “controversial march or demonstration”.

“Racism is racism and something we should all abhor — but not when it comes to anti-Jewish racism it seems,” a source told The Times.

Exactly. Racism is and should be abhorrent to everyone in the BBC newsroom as well as the executives. And guess what? Hatred of Jews is among the most virulent of racism there is on this planet. 

What’s telling is that BBC’s coverage of the October 7 attacks has been…well…skewed towards Palestine and Hamas in numerous ways. And none of it is pretty. It’s gross in fact.

Good god, this is blood libel from the BBC.

The IDF said it entered the hospital *with* its own medical teams and Arabic speakers, so it can help people.

BBC reports the IDF is *targeting* medical teams and Arabic speakers.

That’s not a coincidence.pic.twitter.com/m4PEcOtFRP

— Oliver Cooper (@OliverCooper) November 15, 2023

Furthermore, the BBC has had zero problem in the past with having staffers attend Pride events. Said events are definitely NOT comparative, but demonstrative. 

To the BBC’s credit, they at least pointed out that Hamas is funded by Iran. Yet then decided to pivot to …Golly gee, why is this “escalation different?” 

Let’s help the BBC out shall we? Hamas went around Israeli intelligence by going very VERY old school on how they plotted and planned this. As in off the grid, off social media. Furthermore, this wasn’t an “escalation” you asshats. It was an outright attack on innocent civilians. Families were slaughtered. Women were savagely raped multiple times and paraded through the streets. Children as young as TWO YEARS OLD were taken hostage. 

Yet the BBC defined the October 7 attacks by Hamas and Palestinians as an “escalation” as if this was just one new battle in the middle of the war. Last I knew, going after civilians is a mega huge NO NO according to all… unless you are a Jew living in Israel I guess. 

According to the BBC, it isn’t THEIR job to tell people who are and who aren’t the terrorists. And they refuse to label anyone as a terrorist. 

Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn – who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

We regularly point out that the British and other governments have condemned Hamas as a terrorist organisation, but that’s their business. We also run interviews with guests and quote contributors who describe Hamas as terrorists.

The key point is that we don’t say it in our voice. Our business is to present our audiences with the facts, and let them make up their own minds.

As it happens, of course, many of the people who’ve attacked us for not using the word terrorist have seen our pictures, heard our audio or read our stories, and made up their minds on the basis of our reporting, so it’s not as though we’re hiding the truth in any way – far from it.

Which explains why, in the video above, they don’t label Hamas as terrorists and just kinda gloss over the fact that Iran (who is a known funder of terrorism) is their backer. 

https://twitter.com/WelbornBeege/status/1728231730979516586

Given their current stance on ensuring no one, especially Jewish staffers are allowed to attend an antisemitism march today, one would have to presume the BBC will glowingly report on all the welcome home parties for the Hamas terrorists who are now partying it up in Gaza and the West Bank.

Today’s march is about pushing back against antisemitism – which is one of the more hateful forms of bigotry across this world. The BBC, evidently, doesn’t want staffers attending, even Jewish staffers. Yet Pride events were totally fine. 

The hypocrisy is quite telling here. 

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