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Meet serial sperm donor Ari Nagel, father to 96 kids VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY 9 December 2021
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5 Tevet 5782
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Issue No.1240
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@JewishNewsUK
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Fury at BBC for portraying victims of antisemitic bus attack as racists bus”. A BBC spokesman said: “We have changed our story to clarify only one such slur can be heard clearly.” Not only did the teenagers on the bus categorically There was outrage across the Jewish community deny they uttered any abuse, but Jewish News learned this week at the BBC’s reports of the Chanukah bus that the claim of anti-Muslim slurs was added after the attack in Oxford Street, appearing to blame the Jew- reporter filed his story, apparently by senior BBC staff. The Board says the footage “clearly shows a group of ish teenagers on the bus for “anti-Muslim slurs” — while describing the spitting and Nazi salutes from men making Hitler salutes, spitting, attempting to smash windows, chasing and threatening a bus-load of Jewish outside the bus as “alleged” antisemitism. The row between the BBC and the community esca- children. By reducing this obvious antisemitic incident lated on Tuesday with a formal complaint from the Board to a mere ‘allegation’, your report has the effect of casting doubt on the attackers’ antisemitic motivations.” of Deputies, addressed to BBC director-general The Board asks: “Does the BBC reporting Tim Davie, chairman Richard Sharp and team believe making Nazi salutes at head of news Fran Unsworth. Jewish children could have any other The blistering letter was copied in interpretation?” Efforts to secure an to culture secretary Nadine Dorries, apology have failed, the Board says. a longtime critic of the BBC. It adds that “your reporter outBoard president Marie van Call police on 101 or tweet rageously states, as if fact, that ‘you der Zyl said the reporting of the @MetCC quoting 6184/29Nov. can hear some racial slurs about 1 December attack sought to “treat Alternatively, call the Charing Cross Muslim people… from the bus’, and racisms differently”. What was Hate Crime Unit on 07900 608 252 proceeds to suggest that there is worse, she said, was that “while a possibility that the Jewish victims reporting the clear antisemitic or email AWMailboxmay have been responsible for instithreats and abuse as ‘allegations’”, the HateCrimeUnit@met. gating the attack”. It calls this allegation BBC news article and broadcast “was police.uk “horrendous” and “deeply incendiary” . unequivocal about alleged ‘anti-Muslim The core disputed line in the audio is slurs’ coming from the victims on the bus”. The Board had gone to great lengths to discern exactly someone saying in Hebrew “Tikra lemishehu, ze dachuf” what was heard on the recording of the incident, Van der – “call someone, it’s urgent”. The BBC reports insist Zyl said. “We investigated every second of footage and we someone on the bus shouted in English “dirty Muslims”. Campaign Against Antisemitism is planning a protest contend that the BBC is mischaracterising a Hebrew cry for help, by a distressed Jewish man, as a slur in English”. about the coverage outside Broadcasting House, W1A After the initial complaints about the reporting of the 1AA, at 6:30pm on Monday 13 December. On Sunday, members of the original Chabad bus group attack, the BBC slightly amended its stories. Instead of stating that there had been “anti-Muslim slurs” (plural) returned to Oxford Street to complete what had been coming from the bus, later reports said that “the audio interrupted the previous week: lighting of a chanukiah. appears to show that a slur can be heard coming from the Editorial comment, page 16 by Jenni Frazer @Jennifrazer
Police issued this image of key suspects they are looking for
Can you help catch these yobs?
Violent yobs spat, banged on windows and chased the bus
The group returned to the scene of the attack on Monday to light Chanukah candles, accompanied by police and CST