{"id":33136,"date":"2021-03-04T14:39:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=33136"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:39:57","slug":"backlash-after-bbc-politics-live-discuss-jewish-minority-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/04\/backlash-after-bbc-politics-live-discuss-jewish-minority-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlash after BBC Politics Live discuss Jewish minority status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BBC has come under fire for allowing four non-Jewish panel members to hold a debate titled, \u201cShould Jews count as an ethnic minority\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo Coburn, the presenter of BBC Politics Live, is Jewish herself, but has suggested that because Jewish people have succeeded in politics, they: \u201cdon\u2019t need to be seen as a group needing recognition in the same way as others\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally, a tweet from Labour\u2019s Deputy Leader Angela Rayner prompted the discussion, after she congratulated Anas Sarwar on becoming the new leader of Scottish Labour and the UK\u2019s first Muslim to lead a party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelaRayner\/status\/1365622984757686272\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelaRayner\/status\/1365622984757686272<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Deputy received criticism for calling Sarwar the: \u201cfirst ever ethnic minority leader\u201d when she was elected under Ed Miliband, a Jewish leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benjamin Cohen commented under her tweets and was invited to talk during the debate on the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benjamincohen\/status\/1365655216331325448\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/benjamincohen\/status\/1365655216331325448<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the idea was passed over to the non-Jewish panel, viewers took to Twitter to complain, including British journalist Hadley Freeman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HadleyFreeman\/status\/1366431056988172288\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/HadleyFreeman\/status\/1366431056988172288<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">21-year-old Lily Collins is a student and member of the Jewish Society at the University of Sheffield. She described the BBC\u2019s debate as \u2018irresponsible\u2019 saying: \u201cWith arguing against the existence of a Jewish minority, comes the implication that such a group is privileged with the status of a non-oppressed group, which simply isn\u2019t the case\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33211\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33211\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/03\/JSOC-image-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UoS 2019 Jewish Society committee at their Holocaust Memorial Day talk (Lily Collins is pictured in the skirt).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another issue unveiled by the debate is the use of \u2018Jew\u2019 during the broadcast. Miss Collins added: \u201cthe BBC should be tentative with the terminology as it is often aligned with pejorative implications. 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