BBC Made ‘Significant Editorial Failings’ in Coverage of Anti-Semitic Attack: UK Watchdog

BBC Made ‘Significant Editorial Failings’ in Coverage of Anti-Semitic Attack: UK Watchdog
People arrive and depart from Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in London, on July 2, 2015. Paul Hackett/File Photo/Reuters
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The BBC committed “significant editorial failings” in its coverage of an anti-Semitic attack on Jewish students in London, the UK’s media watchdog Ofcom has concluded.

On Nov. 29, 2021, while a group of Jewish students were travelling on a privately-hired Hanukkah party bus in London’s Oxford Street, they came under attack from a group of men who swore, made obscene gestures, and threw a shopping basket at them.