Mick Hartley

The JC on former BBC diversity manager Sue Caro:

The former senior diversity manager for the BBC has shared antisemitic conspiracy theories and Nazi terminology from her social media account.

Arts and politics magazine The Critic revealed that last month Caro had shared a post in which the words “Start wars then play victims. Rat ideology” were placed above a 1933 Express front page about the global Jewish response to the election of Adolf Hitler.

Caro also appeared to endorse conspiracy theories that Jews were responsible for 9/11 and that “Zionists have a thing for false flags and terrorism” in posts shared on 29 June.

Caro worked as senior diversity manager for the BBC between 2001 and 2011 but advised the corporation on inclusion as recently as 2018 in a freelance capacity.

The “diversity” expert reposted a message on X – written in response to a post by an anti-Israel activist – saying he “isn’t the first person to blame the Zionist Jews for 9/11. I’ve heard tons of people, mostly American, speak on who is responsible for 9/11. The ADL is targeting him because of his pro-Palestine stance and anti-genocide stances and nothing else.”

This doesn't come as a huge shock.

When contacted by the JC, Caro said, “I made an error. I was interested in the article, and didn't see the comment when I reposted it. I deleted it as soon as I did.

“Judaism is 3000+ years old, Zionism is approximately 150 years old, it was born in Europe and developed by an Atheist. It's a white supremacist, colonial rightwing political ideology, not a religion despite all the claims to the contrary. Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Calling Jews who oppose Zionism, who oppose the genocide, antisemites, is pathetic.”

That's maybe not quite the rebuttal she seems to think. No doubt calling Zionism "a white supremacist, colonial rightwing political ideology" will have met with nods of approval in the BBC boardrooms, but doesn't work so well for the rest of us. In fact it rather confirms the JC accusations….