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Media Editor of the Guardian. Who refuses to report on the BBC paying out £400,000 to a Jewish producer after she was made redundant for making a complaint about antisemitism.
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4 days on. There must be a very good reason why the *most* Guardian-esque story you could possibly conceive (BBC sacking, racism, Israel, large payout) is not in fact being covered by.... the Guardian, literal house mag of the media industry 🤔
Likewise, the @guardian has forever been the go-to place for media industry news.
A story involving the BBC, a huge out-of-court settlement, Israel & antisemitism ticks every box for them.
But it’s nowhere to be seen.
Why the strange silence, @mediaguardian?
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Arab voters essentially holding the balance of power in this Israeli election was not on my bingo card. But damn, that’s real democratic power. For those calling Israel an apartheid state, good luck explaining that one.
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At the Macklemore concert in Dublin various artists performed in front of a carousel of pictures, including this shot of Masada - the scene of the greatest Jewish rebellion in history.
Would be funny if it wasn’t so ignorant.
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Likewise, the @guardian has forever been the go-to place for media industry news.
A story involving the BBC, a huge out-of-court settlement, Israel & antisemitism ticks every box for them.
But it’s nowhere to be seen.
Why the strange silence, @mediaguardian?
Such a shocking and disturbing case.
If any other major public body had paid £400k in an out-of-court settlement, @BBCNews would cover the story. But I can't see it on BBC news website. Why not?
BBC has never been shy of covering BBC scandals. Why isn't it covering this one?
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If Harry Kane had come second or third last night he would have definitely stood up to shake hands with the winner. #BallonDor
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These are the pro-Pals on the streets of London tonight causing chaos. Grotesque Ayatollah fans sporting flags of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The regime that MI5 foiled 20 terrorist plots on British soil. Our literal enemies roaming around freely. Grim.
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Such a shocking and disturbing case.
If any other major public body had paid £400k in an out-of-court settlement, @BBCNews would cover the story. But I can't see it on BBC news website. Why not?
BBC has never been shy of covering BBC scandals. Why isn't it covering this one?
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The BBC tried to memory-hole Oscar and Bafta-winning producer @imluciekon - failing to include her Emmy in a list of its awards and re-editing her Oscar-winning documentary to remove her name from the "end board" of credits.
Astounding behaviour from a public broadcaster
The BBC has agreed a £400,000 payout to a Jewish documentary-maker who says she was the victim of anti-Semitism and was bullied out of the broadcaster.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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The BBC has agreed to pay £400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7.
Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta.
Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as “evil”, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre.
When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was “too partial” to oversee it because she was Jewish.
She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it.
She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings.
The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as £400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism.
Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.
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A Jewish 17-year-old boy is about to be called up to @FCBarcelona’s senior team, and antisemites are flooding the comments with venom. They call him “a baby killer,” “a son of serial killers,” “a bloodthirsty monster,” etc.
Pure antisemitism, like that of the Middle Ages
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"Israel oppresses and disenfranchises Palestinians" = not necessarily antisemitic
"Israel invented the concept of oppressing and disenfranchising minorities and exports it all over the world" = absolutely, definitely, invariably antisemitic
This really isn't that hard to grasp. – at Cardiff, Wales
"We are Witnessing the Israelisation of Our Societies"
In this difficult and unflinching conversation, Palestine Deep Dive's Jehan Alfarra and Ahmed Alnaouq are joined by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, and Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture, to examine the destruction of Gaza, the silencing of Palestinian journalists, and the growing struggle to hold those responsible to account.
Francesca Albanese discusses her report A Truth Under the Rubble, exploring the targeting of Palestinian journalists, the suppression of information, and the role of international media in shaping narratives about Israel’s war on Gaza. She explains why the destruction of evidence, the killing of witnesses, and the removal of physical traces raise profound questions about accountability and the international community’s obligations.
Eyal Weizman, author of Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, examines how the transformation of Gaza’s landscape threatens not only physical evidence but also Palestinian memory, identity, and the possibility of return. Through the work of Forensic Architecture, he explores how satellite imagery, witness testimony, and the built environment can help reconstruct what has happened, even as the landscape itself is being erased.
The conversation also tackles the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), US sanctions against international justice officials, arms transfers, and the responsibilities of governments under international law and the Genocide Convention.
@FranceskAlbs | @weizman_eyal | @AlnaouqA | @j_alfarra
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“This is the first time a terrorist killed someone in France because of their religion.”
What the hell is Macron saying?
14 years ago Mohammed Merah broke into a Jewish school in the French town of Toulouse and executed a pair of 3 year old and 5 year old French Jewish boys.
He then chased an 8 year old Jewish girl named Myriam Monsonego.
Merah caught her by her hair and raised a gun to execute her. His gun jammed, so he changed weapons. He then shot the little girl in the head while filming the execution with his GoPro.
« Ce qui s’est passé aujourd’hui c’est un tournant. C’est la première fois qu’il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, a raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion qu’on leur donne » « Ne baissez pas la tête »
Emmanuel Macron à Trappes.
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La déclaration citée d'Emmanuel Macron n'est pas exacte. Des attentats terroristes planifiés ont déjà tué des enfants en France en raison de leur religion, comme celui de Mohammed Merah en 2012 à l'école juive Ozar Hatorah de Toulouse.
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