The BBC is under fire for allowing a Green Party activist who was accused of legitimising the October 7 massacre ‘free rein’ to lambast a Jewish journalist on its flagship politics show.
Ashok Kumar, a professor at Birkbeck, University of London, had been invited to appear on Politics Live to discuss the controversial ‘Zionism is racism’ motion adopted at the Greens’ conference this month.
During the debate with Rachel Cunliffe, of The New Statesman magazine, Baroness Chakrabarti and Lord Hannan, Dr Kumar claimed it was ‘anti–Semitic’ to connect Zionism – the belief in a state for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland
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