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Three Labour colleagues quit party over anti-Semitism – BBC Newsnight
A group of 200 Jewish BBC staff, employees and suppliers have expressed frustration at what they say is the BBC's failure to launch a formal investigation into "systemic problems of antisemitism and prejudice" within the organisation.
Led by 9/11: Inside the President's War Room EP Neil Grant, the group sent a letter to BBC board members and chairman Samir Shah on 19 July, describing their "anxiety and disbelief that we fear we have now exhausted the process to raise our very serious concerns about anti-Jewish racism with BBC management.
The group also sent the board members what it described as a non-exhaustive list of social media breaches and “breach of impartiality in matters of public controversy relating to Israel and Gaza,” errors in broadcasting that “suggest bias” and an account from anonymous sources “about the anxiety and mental health toll on Jewish BBC staff, their feelings of isolation and alienation from their bosses, and experiences of prejudice and racism at work.”
