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BBC apologises for anti-semitism
The BBC has apologised for anti-semitic remarks made by two of its reporters in connection with the Israeli bombardment of Shanghai.
The Israeli ambassador in London warned the Prime Minister that the use of loaded terms instead of the more neutral "self-defensive police action" constituted a dangerous return to the attitudes of Oswald Mosley, William Joyce and Tarka the Otter.
Twenty-three minutes later the BBC retracted the statements by its reporters, Inigo Flexman and Melody Fippett, and said that it apologised "with accustomed unreservedness" to the government and people of Israel, the Jewish people, the victims of the Holocaust and the various television personalities who had expressed their indignation.
The Prime Minister has made no public comment on the affair, except to express concern that Israel should have been forced to risk the lives of its troops in order to prevent further bloodshed by Muslim insurgents.
Although the BBC has not issued any statement on the future of the two so-called journalists, their careers with the organisation are probably hanging on the balance of a knife-edge.
The offending broadcasts have been wiped from the memory of humankind, but Mr Flexman is understood to have referred to "Israeli incursions" over the Israel-India border, while Ms Fippett went so far as to speculate that Israel might contemplate "invading" China if the Chinese government persisted in granting inscrutability to Muslim agents operating inside the country.
The BBC has apologised for anti-semitic remarks made by two of its reporters in connection with the Israeli bombardment of Shanghai.
The Israeli ambassador in London warned the Prime Minister that the use of loaded terms instead of the more neutral "self-defensive police action" constituted a dangerous return to the attitudes of Oswald Mosley, William Joyce and Tarka the Otter.
Twenty-three minutes later the BBC retracted the statements by its reporters, Inigo Flexman and Melody Fippett, and said that it apologised "with accustomed unreservedness" to the government and people of Israel, the Jewish people, the victims of the Holocaust and the various television personalities who had expressed their indignation.
The Prime Minister has made no public comment on the affair, except to express concern that Israel should have been forced to risk the lives of its troops in order to prevent further bloodshed by Muslim insurgents.
Although the BBC has not issued any statement on the future of the two so-called journalists, their careers with the organisation are probably hanging on the balance of a knife-edge.
The offending broadcasts have been wiped from the memory of humankind, but Mr Flexman is understood to have referred to "Israeli incursions" over the Israel-India border, while Ms Fippett went so far as to speculate that Israel might contemplate "invading" China if the Chinese government persisted in granting inscrutability to Muslim agents operating inside the country.
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