CAA launches national newspaper ads calling for suspension of TV licence fee

Campaign Against Antisemitism has launched a full-page ad campaign in today’s Sunday newspapers calling for the suspension of the TV licence fee, pending an independent investigation into the BBC in relation to the Gaza film scandal and wider issues of bias against the Jewish state in its coverage.

The striking ads observe that a majority of the British public supports the launch of an independent investigation, according our polling.

The campaign comes following a protest, organised by Campaign Against Antisemitism, on Thursday at Broadcasting House where protesters told the BBC: “We refuse to fund terrorists with our licence fee!”

We are encouraging the public to sign our petition calling for the suspension of the licence fee, at suspendthelicencefee.com.

In addition, 200 figures from the entertainment industry have signed an open letter calling for an investigation into the BBC, including Ozzy and Sharon Osborne, Debra Messing and Mayim Bialik.

A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “It is unconscionable to force people to pay a licence fee that for years has funded biased reporting and has now been handed to the family of a Hamas terrorist. The BBC has offered to investigate itself, but the British public is having none of it and a clear majority now wants an independent investigation into this latest scandal and the underlying rot of BBC bias that enabled it to happen. The licence fee must be suspended pending an independent investigation.

“Thousands of people have already signed our petition at suspendthelicencefee.com, and now celebrities are adding their voices too. Everyone has had enough of BBC bias and handing licence fee money to a Hamas terrorist’s family has to be the final straw.”