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Wed Jan 5, 2022, 02:48 PM Jan 2022

(Jewish Group) Jewish BBC broadcaster quits after 30 years due to antisemitism

A longtime Jewish BBC broadcaster handed in his resignation after over 30 years due to antisemitism.

The broadcaster, Rabbi YY Rubinstein, shared his resignation on Facebook and even wrote a column in the Jewish news outlet The Forward about his resignation.

"There is a well-documented culture of low-grade antisemitism that is present throughout the entire organization," Rubinstein noted in The Forward, something he said was usually hidden under the label of being merely anti-Zionist.

But the incident that was the final straw was the BBC's coverage of an antisemitic incident that occurred on Oxford Street during Hanukkah.

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Of course, one need only turn to the comment section to see Jews referred to as "oven dodgers". So, is it any wonder that anti-Semitism is enjoying a renaissance of sorts? Perhaps, when it moves to more deadly consequences, a few destroyed synagogues, several HUNDRED dead Jews, then, and maybe not even then, will people start to understand that anti-Semitism is a real problem.

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