‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ demands broadcaster give caller’s phone number to police following racist diatribe A BBC radio phone-in program in the early hours of December 22 allowed a caller to spend almost 13 minutes in a rant that castigated Jews and their “rule” over British society, a watchdog group said.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism called the incident shocking “even for the BBC.”
According to the UK Jewish News, “Andy from St. Margaret’s” started his attack on Radio London’s Simon Lederman radio program by stating that “they are trying to control us more and more and more. They want to put a chip up our backsides, a ring through our noses, and a vizor for our horizons… the elite… the Rothschilds.”
Andy referenced well-known anti-Semitic tropes, claiming that the Jews didn’t originate from Palestine but that most came from “an empire called Khazaria” in eastern Europe and that “the Rothschilds, the people who own the Bank of England, the people who own the Federal Reserve, they’re all Zionist Jews. The people who own corporate America, the media …. they’re all Zionist Jews. We are ruled by Zionist Jews.”
He continued by complaining about an obsession with the Holocaust and repeating the mantra that “we are dominated by the Jews’ system, the financial Jewish system.” He added that Jews are still “banging on about the Jews and the Holocaust … we keep going on about six million Jews.”
A BBC spokesperson defended the decision to allow the caller to go on speaking, saying that “the aim of the program is to discuss and debate issues raised by our listeners. This was a live phone in and the caller was challenged on his views throughout the conversation.” After the interview, the spokesperson added, “reaction from other listeners was also broadcast.”
Jonathan Sacerdoti, director of communication at the Campaign Against Antisemitism, said the incident was shocking “even for the BBC…. The radio presenter simply allowed an ignorant racist to speak for nearly [a] quarter of an hour while offering no counter-argument, correction or condemnation of his views that Jews control money, banks, commerce and the media.
We expect the BBC to now hand the caller’s telephone number to the police.”