A BBC radio phone-in programme by presenter Simon Lederman allowed a caller to stay on air for almost 13 minutes in a rant that castigated Jews and their �rule� over British society, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism watchdog group reported.

The group called the incident shocking �even for the BBC.�

According to The Jewish News, the man, introduced as �Andy from St Margaret�s�, began to say by saying: �They are trying to control us more and more and more. They want to put a chip up our backsides, a ring through our noses, and a vizor for our horizons� the elite� the Rothschilds�.

Lederman, who is Jewish, started the exchange by saying that it was a �phone-in amnesty� and that �within obvious limits�, the caller could say �whatever is on your mind�.

Immediately the caller began to complain of �Zionist Jews�, insisting, in a well-known antisemitic trope, that Jews did not come from Palestine but from �an empire called Khazaria.� He said: �Most of the Jews of the world come from eastern Europe, from a place called originally, an empire called Khazaria� The Rothschilds, the people who own the Bank of England, the people who own the Federal Reserve, they�re all Zionist Jews. The people who own corporate America, the media, you�ll find if you just do a little bit of research, they�re all Zionist Jews. We are ruled by Zionist Jews.�

The caller�s comments continued with a long and bad-tempered rant in which he complained of an obsession with the Holocaust and repeated: �We are dominated by the Jews� system, the financial Jewish system.�

�We keep going on about the Jews� mainstream media, they keep banging on about the Jews and the Holocaust� we keep going on about six million Jews.�

A BBC spokesperson said: �The aim of the programme is to discuss and debate issues raised by our listeners. This was a live phone in and the caller was challenged on his views through out the conversation. Following the interview reaction from other listeners was also broadcast. As of yet we�ve had no formal request from the police for the caller�s details.�

The BBC made the plea to hand over to the police details of the anti-Semitic phone caller.

Jonathan Sacerdoti, director of communication at the Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: �Even for the BBC this is shocking. In this broadcast the radio presenter simply allowed an ignorant racist to speak for nearly quarter of an hour while offering no counter-argument, correction or condemnation of his views that Jews control money, banks, commerce and the media. We expect the BBC to now hand the caller�s telephone number to the police.�

(Source: EJP)