BBC training tells staff not to criticise Zionists
www.middleeasteye.net
The training, rolled out to BBC staff last week and seen by Middle East Eye, says people should criticise the Israeli government rather than Zionists

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/43556891

>> The [BBC’s new antisemitism] training, … says: "Antisemites frequently use the word ‘Zionist’ …, when they are in fact referring to Jews, whether in Israel or elsewhere.

>> “Those claiming to be ‘anti-Zionist, not antisemitic’, should do so in the knowledge that many Jewish people consider themselves to be Zionists.”

>> The course was made by the BBC Academy in conjunction with the Jewish Staff Network, the Antisemitism Policy Trust and the Community Security Trust (#CST).

>> The #BBC training also incorporates the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (#IHRA) definition of antisemitism …

  • SpaceCowboy
    110·
    4 days ago

    If after the events of today, you can’t understand why there might be a need for a country where Jews can be safe, then you’re probably a hatemonger that’s causing more people to think that way.

    You think by attacking people you’re going to make people think Israel shouldn’t exist? You’re kinda having the opposite effect.

    Maybe you should stop your performative hatred towards an amorphous group that are maybe a certain ethnicity and/or have different views from yours, and apply a small amount of critical thinking to what you’re doing. If you’re making certain people unwelcome in every country in the world except one, doesn’t that justify the continued existence of that one country where they can be safe?

    If you can’t understand that the BBC is actually helping your movement by sane-washing things a bit, then you’ve truly lost your minds. If you were only criticizing Israel, more people might agree with you. Your hatred against “zionists” is a really terrible look. If you hate certain people, whether it be because of their ethnicity or even because they hold a different political position from yours, you’re in a hate group.

    A group of people that are dedicated to hating another group of people is a hate group. You should thank the BBC for making you look a little bit less like a hate group. Though maybe they shouldn’t… just let people go off on longwinded rants about how the “zionists” are the secret puppet masters of the world or whatever and everyone will know what the “Free Palestine” movement is really all about. Is that what you want?