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Chanukah bus attack
October 12, 2022, 5:42 pm
Met Police apologises to Jewish News over chief’s Chanukah bus claim
Sir Mark Rowley had suggested JN report on the decision to close the police investigation was 'inaccurate'
By Lee Harpin
October 7, 2022, 10:22 am
Met Police drop investigation into Oxford Street Chanukah bus attack
Exclusive: Police confirm they have closed probe into the November 2021 incident, in which men abused a bus carrying a group of young Jews, after they fail to identify the suspects
By Lee Harpin
January 19, 2022, 6:06 pm
Lord Mann in ‘crisis meeting’ with BBC director general over antisemitism coverage
EXCLUSIVE: Government's independent antisemitism adviser met Tim Davie for an hour at Broadcasting House, expressing 'major concerns' over reporting of the Chanukah bus attack
By Lee Harpin
BBC Radio studio
January 7, 2022, 1:36 pm
BBC debate on anti-Zionism becoming a ‘protected characteristic’ condemned by Board
President Marie van der Zyl hit out at the broadcaster for planning a discussion on its Radio 4 Sunday programme featuring JVL activist Diana Neslen
By Lee Harpin
A protest outside BBC New Broadcasting House (Photo: Campaign Against Antisemitism)
January 5, 2022, 2:26 pm
Board will go to Ofcom if BBC fails to apologise for antisemitic bus attack coverage
EXCLUSIVE: Board President Marie van der Zyl will meet corporation's director general later this month to demand an explanation for its failure to set the record straight.
By Lee Harpin
YY Rubenstein and his Facebook 'resignation'
January 4, 2022, 1:25 pm
Rabbi quits broadcasting on the BBC due to Chanukah antisemitism coverage
Broadcaster YY Rubenstein ends 30-year association with the corporation over its 'inexcusable attempts to turn the victims of antisemitism into perpetrators'
Police a searching for suspects in connection to the Chanukah bus attack on Oxford Street
December 30, 2021, 11:17 am
BBC’s anti-Muslim slur claim during Chanukah bus attack is FALSE, expert says
Linguistic expert says footage of the notorious incident contains no remark about Muslims in either Hebrew or English
By Jewish News Reporter
Tom Bateman's tweet about Muhammad Issa Abbas didn't include context according to critics such as actress Tracy-Ann Oberman
December 24, 2021, 12:55 pm
BBC defends reporter accused of ‘twisting’ story about death of Palestinian
Broadcaster said Tom Bateman's tweet 'clearly reflects' a statement put out by the IDF on the incident
By Lee Harpin
A protest outside BBC New Broadcasting House (Photo: Campaign Against Antisemitism)
December 21, 2021, 12:33 pm
BBC to meet Board president over Chanukah bus attack coverage
BBC director general Tim Davie will speak to Marie van der Zyl in the new year after the broadcaster received 'several hundred' complaints about its report last month.
By Lee Harpin
A protest outside BBC New Broadcasting House (Photo: Campaign Against Antisemitism)
December 14, 2021, 11:29 am
Community holds anti-BBC protest over Chanukah bus attack coverage
The demonstration was organised after the Corporation's claim that one attack victim used an anti-Muslim slur
By Jewish News Reporter
A Middle Eastern looking man in his 20s stands on a bench and makes insulting gestures towards the bus passengers.
December 13, 2021, 3:35 pm
BBC stands by bus attack report, insisting: ‘Anti-Muslim slur WAS spoken in English’
EXCLUSIVE: Broadcaster accuses Jewish News of "misrepresenting" its coverage, saying it “consulted Hebrew speakers" in determining an Islamophobic slur was uttered on the bus, as Chief Rabbi writes to director-general to express his concern.
By Richard Ferrer
Image issued by the Metropolitan Police of men wanted by the police after anti-Semitic abuse was directed towards a group of young Jewish people during an open-top party bus in Oxford Street. The group was spat at by a group of men in what was described as a "bigoted antisemitic attack". Issue date: Tuesday December 7, 2021.
December 13, 2021, 12:50 pm
Oxford St probe ‘ongoing’ as police deny dropping anti-Muslim slur investigation
Metropolitan Police tells Jewish News it is still looking into the antisemitic abuse directed at a Chabad bus during Chanukah
By Jewish News Reporter
Last year: The same busload of children were targeted by antisemitic yobs on Oxford Street in an attack that sickened the nation but led to no arrests
December 10, 2021, 5:54 pm
Former BBC chairman tells broadcaster: ‘Prove anti-Muslim slur claim or apologise’
Lord Michael Grade has called on the corporation to prove Jewish victims of an antisemitic attack on Oxford Street used an anti-Muslim slur or FINALLY apologise for its coverage.
By Richard Ferrer
Violent yobs spat, banged on windows and chased the bus
December 9, 2021, 2:50 pm
Voice of the Jewish News: BBC has a serious question to answer
In its passion striving for the very balance which once gave it respect, the BBC overstepped the mark in its reporting of the distressing Chanukah attack - turning victims of antisemitism into racists
By Jewish News
Image issued by the Metropolitan Police of men wanted by the police after anti-Semitic abuse was directed towards a group of young Jewish people during an open-top party bus in Oxford Street. The group was spat at by a group of men in what was described as a "bigoted antisemitic attack". Issue date: Tuesday December 7, 2021.
December 7, 2021, 11:07 am
Chanukah bus attack: ‘BBC added anti-Muslim slur claim AFTER journalist filed report’
Community’s ugly standoff with corporation over its coverage of last week’s violent racist attack on Jewish youngsters celebrating Chanukah takes another dramatic turn.
By Richard Ferrer
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