Safeguarding course falsely claimed Jewish people practice female genital mutilation 

It has been reported that an online safeguarding course that was delivered nationwide falsely claimed that Jewish people practiced female genital mutilation. 

According to Israeli Maariv, the false information was flagged by a dental assistant, who was asked to take the course run by the healthcare group Bupa.

The assistant said: “As part of the course, we learned about signs of abuse, and it was written that Jews circumcise girls – a fact that is not true and even antisemitic.

“I was shocked and posted it on the Jewish Britain Facebook group.”

According to Bupa, the course “was prepared by a third party and was not reviewed by us.” 

“We have now instructed that this offensive content be taken down,” Bupa added. “We apologise to those who were harmed by this.”