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.
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