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Faygie Holt

UK Regulator Takes BBC To Task For Coverage Of Oxford St Attack

A picture of the mobile BBC News App taken in Ealing, England on May 24th. 2020. The BBC have been criticized for their coverage of an antisemitic attack in Oxford. RICH SMITH/UNSPLASH

Nearly a year after a group of Jewish teens were accosted on a major London shopping street during Chanukah, a British regulatory commission has criticized the way the BBC covered the episode. During the Dec. 2, 2021 incident on Oxford Street, parts of which were captured on video, a group of Arab men yelled at the teens and banged on the doors and windows of the bus the teens were on, with at least one person throwing his shoe at them, a sign of severe contempt in Arab culture.

A BBC cameraman wearing a fluorescent jacket at work on January 14, 2022, in Cardiff, Wales. The BBC have been criticized for the way they reported an antisemitic attack in Oxford a year ago. MATTHEW HORWOOD/GETTY IMAGES
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