Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein, a contributor to the British BBC news outlet for three decades, said he is cutting off his relationship with the media giant over its skewed and slanted reporting on a recent anti-Semitic incident.
In an open letter explaining his decision, Rabbi Rubinstein wrote that his move was in response to a report by BBC which claimed that victims of an anti-Semitic attack hurled anti-Muslim slurs during their encounter with their attackers – a claim that has been widely disputed.
The incident occurred on Chanukah, when a group of Muslims pounded on the doors of a bus transporting Jews to a Chanukah party, with the attackers hurling slurs at the Jewish occupants and yelling “Free Palestine!”
The BBC reported that several anti-Muslim slurs were heard inside the bus during the incident, an assertion that was debunked by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
“I simply don’t see how I or in fact any Jew who has any pride in that name can be associated with the Corporation anymore,” Rabbi Rubinstein wrote.
He noted that the incident was but the latest in a larger pattern of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel reporting by the network, as well as utter intolerance for dissenting views to its crafted narrative.
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10 Responses
Anti-Israel is not anti-Jewish.
Anti-Israel is not a reason to leave there. In fact, it’s probably a reason to stay, because anti-Israel, unless it calls for harm CH”V to any Jews, de facto means pro-Jewish.
Real Anti-Jewish, however, is a reason to leave there.
What did he ever have to do with the BBC other than the BBC calling him for comments, from time to time, for random stories?
Is this the first and only time BBC has showed its anti-semitic colors?
Did the good Rabbi just grow a brain or is there another factor at play.
Mr Kinsler- why be so nasty??? Eidelkeit works better…… in the eyes of Hashem too!
HaKatan, I don’t know where you live, but in the UK, anti-Israel really does equate to anti-Jewish. I suspect that is the case in most countries with most people. Very few goyim can differentiate between the two, and for the yidden who are anti-Israel – sadly that’s another story
@Hakatan, the only other camps in the world that claim “anti-israel is not anti Jewish” are Islamics and neo-Nazis. Clearly, you enjoy their company more than that of the rest of klal-Yisroel.
BBC= Blatantly Biased Conspirators.
RABBAIM: you have a point.
Although it DOES bother me if indeed he was ‘with’ BBC up till now, I do ask Mechilah from K’vod Torasoi
Hi. I usually don’t leave replies, and I’m usually not so polite.
Fact #1 Rabbi YY(the o.g.) is a major Talmid Chochom, and would not make a decision w/o Daas Torah. The fact he was with them for so long was also with DT.
Fact #2 These are more of opinions than actual facts.
Fact #3 This point “I simply don’t see how I or in fact any Jew who has any pride in that name can be associated with the Corporation anymore,” is the real take away from this story.
Happy posting!!!
Anti-Israel is definitely Anti-Jewish. Even the Satmar Rebbe z”l agreed that a goy must be a tziyoni, because goyim don’t care about the 6 shevu’os, which are in any case not their business, so the only reason a goy would oppose Israel is because he hates Jews.