Why does the UK suddenly hate women and Jews? Partly because the BBC under Tim Davie hates women and Jews. https://t.co/Wi52s9eETS
— Graham Linehan 🎗️ (@Glinner) July 6, 2025
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Here's the Telegraph article, from Angela Epstein, with an account of BBC execs confronted by an audience of 500 Jews in Manchester:
The audience was respectful but the questions were unflinching. Why won’t you call Hamas terrorists? What about the factual inaccuracies? Do you understand what your bias and prejudice does to us?
Having been asked to chair the event I watched the executives closely as they nodded, listened, and gave carefully worded answers to make their case. But when I asked for a show of hands from those who still didn’t trust the BBC, 500 arms spiked in the air.
After the event, three more intimate roundtable discussions followed, giving community members the chance to air further grievances with senior BBC figures. The process stretched out over a year. It ended last March. And still after listening to the Jewish people make their unsparing case, the BBC insisted it had found no evidence of institutional bias.
The experience surely lifts the bonnet on why accusations of anti-Israel bias – and, at times, naked antisemitism – continue to dog the BBC. Namely a culture of weakness that runs right to the top. A spineless, craven unwillingness to offer a concrete and consequential response in the face of first-hand testimony – whether from anguished Northern licence payers or, in the case of Glastonbury, unequivocal death chants.
Mick Hartley 
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