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Are Jews an ethnic minority?
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BBC journalist Jo Coburn, seen standing outside Parliament in London, suggested during the debate that Jews have succeeded in reaching high political office and therefore don t need to be seen as a group needing recognition in the same way as others.
(JTA) - The BBC has been accused of bias in its coverage of Israel for decades. Now the public broadcaster is taking flak from British Jews for coverage much closer to home.
What s causing their biggest dispute in years?
It s the broadcast of a debate over whether Jews should be considered an ethnic minority - a panel discussion featuring four non-Jewish panelists and a Jewish commenter as a guest.
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The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority
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The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority
The notion that Judaism is both religion and peoplehood feeds the paranoid suspicions of the anti-Semite that the Jews are slippery customers who change their shape at will and thus hide in plain sight.
(March 4, 2021 / JNS) A row over anti-Semitism that has erupted in Britain illuminates the problem that bedevils so many in the West over their understanding of what Judaism actually is.
The controversy started with a tweet by the Labour Party’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, congratulating the new head of the Scottish Labour Party, Anas Sarwar, on his appointment. Rayner described Sarwar, who is of Pakistani descent, as “the first-ever ethnic minority leader of a political party anywhere in the U.K.”
Mar. 3, 2021
The BBC has been accused of bias in its coverage of Israel for decades. Now the public broadcaster is taking flak from British Jews for coverage much closer to home.
What’s causing their biggest dispute in years?
It’s the broadcast of a debate over whether Jews should be considered an ethnic minority a panel discussion featuring four non-Jewish panelists and a Jewish commenter as a guest.
Monday’s discussion touched raw nerves in the organized community, where many Jews feel marginalized by allegedly hostile media treatment and the rise of anti-Semitism both from the far right and at the heart of the Labour Party.