Campaign Against Antisemitism
“Zionism: you shoved your mum into the washing machine and the spinning made her dizzy and that dizziness made her vomit and you point to that vomit and go ‘Aha, that’s antisemitism.’” This is appalling. @BBC6Music, earlier today you played a song containing these lyrics and as of right now, it is still up on @BBCSounds. Do you condone this message? The pernicious insinuation that Zionism – the belief that Jews have the same right to self-determination as everyone else – is used to cook up fake claims of antisemitism is harmful to Jews worldwide. Eight in ten British Jews consider themselves to be Zionists. This kind of rhetoric could be seen to imply that the majority of British Jews might be lying about antisemitism. How on earth was this song ever allowed to air? Why is it still there? Who is responsible? What consequences will they face?