Labour Party expels councillor who said “Jewish leaders are worse than Nazis” after brief suspension
The Labour Party has expelled a councillor who said that “Jewish leaders are worse than Nazis” after suspending him last month. Andy Kay, who has also referenced “Zionists’ attempts to influence our political processes” and added for good measure that those supposed efforts were “racist”, had been serving as a cabinet member for finance and […]
TalkRADIO fined £75,000 over George Galloway’s lack of partiality in discussion of Labour antisemitism, days after the former MP spread false story of murder of Arab child
The radio channel, TalkRADIO, has been fined £75,000 for breaching rules on impartiality in three programmes hosted by the controversial former MP, George Galloway. Two of the programmes concerned antisemitism in the Labour Party. In assessing the breaches, Ofcom concluded that the programmes, one of which covered the poisoning of Yulia and Sergei Skripal, had […]
CAA to write to Oxford English Dictionary calling for edit to proposed definition of “Yiddo” to note controversy over its use and for review of other problematic terms
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has published its list of new words for inclusion in its definitive guide to the English language in a January update. Among the new entries are a disproportionate number of Yiddish words and phrases and others relating to Jews and Judaism, including: “anti-Semiticism”; “bagel”; “bochur”; “broigus”; “chicken soup”; “chrain”; “chutzpadik”; […]