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.
On Dec. 2, 2021, the BBC reported the incident in an online news article and a television news bulletin. On the basis of video footage of part of the attack taken from inside the bus, both reports alleged that “racial slurs about Muslims” could be heard coming from inside the bus….