Sir David Bell's report exposed the abhorrent scale of antisemitism in our schools and colleges. The Government has rightly accepted all the recommendations, including treating antisemitism as a safeguarding issue. I asked the Education Secretary how the duty will work:

As they should be! Who do these supremacists think they are? Travelling to a nation 1000s of miles away to provoke trouble. Shameful behaviour. And what a waste of money - that could have instead been directed to help Palestinians - not pull a publicity stunt.

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The vile comments on this post offer a snapshot of what Jewish people face daily. I’m not Jewish, but I’ve had a torrent of abuse since calling out antisemitism in schools. It’s not acceptable and these people are gross.

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Oscar-winning producer says BBC gave her £400,000 payout after she raised antisemitism concerns bbc.in/4yN2ntf

You clearly don't know what an exclave is

Israel protects its borders, repels invaders, and defends its values, democracy and citizens - no matter the cost or what the world thinks of it. I just wish the UK and the rest of Europe would do the same.

The BBC has become a hostile environment against Jewish people. This shameful case raises serious questions for the Director General, who must explain how and why Jewish staff have been subjected to such appalling racism and what urgent action he will take to end this corrosive culture across the BBC. The BBC has ceased to be a bastion of high quality impartial news. Instead it has become synonymous with promoting anti semitism, refusing to report facts and shamefully censoring truth. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

Morning from Tel Aviv! Zionism is beautiful. Zionism created a country of refugees. Zionism created a home for an oppressed people running from antisemitism and murder (this guy is a poor imitation of the sheer hatred Jews face). Zionism created the only democracy in the Middle East and it’s very exciting to be here to see the vote in action.

It's a WAR you dickhead. Probably most of those were legitimate Hamas targets. If you'd been following closely you'd know that even the Gaza health authorities' own data strongly supports this. But you don't really care about the truth, do you..

Four. Hundred. Thousand. Fucking. Pounds. So our licence fee is paying for constructive dismissal costs because the BBC is - it seems impossible now to credibly deny - fundamentally and institutionally biased against Israel. Time to defund - you are no longer fit for purpose..

Mate she didn’t just say it - the systemically antisemitic @BBC ACTUALLY did pay her £400 000 after she sued them for discrimination. You know why the BEEB settled at such a high number? Because the directors were petrified that the full extent of the BBC’s systemic antisemitism would be revealed in court & it could not take that risk & the risk of the court awarding a much higher number.

'BBC pays former employee £400,000 after she provided evidence of numerous cases of anti-Semitism and anti Jewish racism in editorial decisions by BBC staff' might have been a more accurate headline

The BBC IS institutionally antisemitic. Has been for about 25 years.

Here's my @spectator column about the BBC's payout to @imluciekon, 'The BBC can no longer ignore its antisemitism problem' spectator.com/article/the-bb… I don’t think I’ve ever been more wrong than when I was booed in a synagogue around twenty years ago. The occasion was a panel on media bias against Israel. One of the audience had asked a question about the BBC’s ‘institutional antisemitism’ and I responded – I shudder now to think how wrong I was – that while it was obviously biased against Israel, that reflected the left-liberal mindset of the overwhelming majority of its newsroom rather than antisemitism as such. The years since the Hamas massacre on 7 October 2023 have been an object lesson in how wrong I was. The BBC’s reports have consistently repeated Hamas propaganda as fact, as with its international editor Jeremy Bowen’s coverage of the alleged bombing of a hospital in Gaza on 17 October that year. Hamas claimed an Israeli airstrike led to the blast, which it said killed at least 500 people. Bowen reported on BBC One’s News at Ten that: “The missile hit the hospital not long after dark. You can hear the impact. The explosion destroyed Al-Ahli hospital. It was already damaged from a smaller attack at the weekend. The building was flattened.” In fact, the blast was caused by a misfired rocket from Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the hospital was entirely untouched and the damage was to a nearby car park. Bowen later accepted that he was “wrong” but “doesn’t regret one thing” about his reporting. Danny Cohen, the former director of BBC television, has said that its repeated broadcasts of false reports mean that something deeper is at work than poor journalism: “Mistakes happen once, perhaps twice, but when they keep happening, you have to ask why. I think there are institutional biases.” But those of us who are forced to pay for the BBC’s bias through the licence fee only see one side of this institutional antisemitism: its reporting. We don’t see the inner workings of its newsroom, the comments behind the scenes or – given that we are talking about institutional antisemitism – the way its Jewish employees are treated. That changed today with the revelation that the BBC has paid out £400,000 to Lucie Kon. She is one of the most lauded documentary makers of her generation and an Emmy and Oscar winner – and also happens to be Jewish. Kon’s account of her time at the BBC after the 7 October massacre is a devastating indictment. After she suggested making a film about the massacre, she was told that "if you want to call Hamas terrorists then you have to call Israel terrorists, too" and that she should "think about what drove Hamas to do what they did". The proposed film should "contextualise" the terrorist attack and empathise with what had driven the perpetrators. Then she was told that she should not oversee it because, as a Jew, she was "too partial" – in relation to a film about the murder, rape and mutilation of Israelis. Colleagues told her that Zionists such as her are "evil". Kon says that after 7 October, "It was like having Jew stamped on my forehead". She says that a colleague told her it was "disgusting" that the then prime minister Rishi Sunak was visiting a Jewish school as prime minister to offer support and reassurance to the Jewish community. As she puts it: "I was open about being a Zionist. The BBC says, bring your authentic self to work. And I did. And I lost my job as a result." After making a formal complaint, Kon was ordered to stay at home for months and then made redundant. The BBC has now paid her £400,000, although it has not admitted liability, apologised or accepted that she was the victim of antisemitism. The problems with the BBC’s on-screen reporting do not come out of nowhere. Kon’s case is instructive because it is the first concrete example of what lies behind the bias in the BBC’s reporting: Jew hate. Much of the BBC’s output shows that its default position is that Israel is the real problem in the Middle East. It is hardly a surprise that behind the scenes, the view that Zionists are evil is considered uncontroversial. One of the characteristics of antisemites is that they believe they are privy to the reality of the world – that Jews are the key to everything that is wrong. So they think they are merely stating the obvious when they say that Zionists are evil or that a Jew should not oversee a programme about a massacre of Jews. Kon was a jewel in the BBC’s crown but was attacked by colleagues because she is a Jew. I have heard similar stories from other Jews who, for entirely understandable reasons, have decided to keep their head down, accept they work for an organisation in which open Jew hate flourishes, and get on with their job. But now that Lucie Kon has taken the courageous step of fighting the BBC’s institutional antisemitism, never again can it pretend the problem is not real – and raging.

That would be the icing on the cake for you, evidently.

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.

Too partial to oversee an October 7 film because she's Jewish. Try that sentence with any other minority.