The New Dark Age

26 December, 2009

It was a simple and terrible accusation. The co-Chair of the Zionist Federation, Jonathan Hoffman, had got up to ask a question at a Bricup meeting, and he was subject to a shout of ‘Jew’ and ‘Jewish’ as well as being heckled because he was Jewish (not because of his views of course!).

There was only one problem. None of it was true. Indeed the BBC, when it saw a video of what happened, realised it had made a terrible mistake (even according to its own slipshod standards). Try as I might, I just cannot make out such a chant. And more to the point, it took Hoffman over 2 weeks before he realised that he had been subject to vicious anti-Semitic taunting! And then only because a Tory student spokesman, Raheem Kassam, had got round to inventing it.

The result is that quite uniquely for this pro-Zionist and pro-imperialist organisation, the BBC has entirely replaced the original report from its site, apologised and reprimanded the reporter responsible.

A report of the unfolding of this little drama and how Zionism attempts to smear and libel supporters of the Palestinians as ‘anti-Semites’ is below:

http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2009/12/bbcs-humiliating-climbdown-after.html

Tony Greenstein