J’Accuse

The reason was an ugly anti-Semitic incident and the BBC’s coverage of it. It occurred this past Chanukah in London’s busiest shopping center, Oxford Street (home to the world-famous Harrods department store), as a group of chareidi teenagers left their tour bus and danced on the sidewalk, when they were surrounded by a group of Muslim men who threatened them. The Muslims screamed and spat anti-Semitic abuse at them, giving Nazi salutes and forcing them to flee back to the bus, which they then began to attack.

By the time the BBC reported the story, they alleged that it was the Jewish kids who had in fact shouted anti-Muslim slurs at their attackers.

The BBC then modified the word “slurs” (plural) to “slur” (singular), but they continued to allege that someone could be heard shouting, “dirty Muslims.”

An independent forensic voice expert was commissioned by the UK’s Jewish community who listened to the recordings from people’s cell phones. He found the BBC claim was a complete untruth. The BBC refused (and still refuses) to back down.