The BBC ignored Jewish victims when covering the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and has since apologised for its error. The taxpayer-funded broadcaster described Tuesday’s omission as “hurtful, disrespectful, and wrong.”
The BBC covered the annual day of remembrance for the murder of six million men, women and children in Nazi death camps during World War II, but at least four news presenters neglected to mention the murdered victims were Jewish and targeted for their faith.
The report on BBC Breakfast introduced by Jon Kay said the day was “for remembering the six million people murdered by the Nazi regime over 80 years ago” without specifying the deaths targeted Jewish victims.
The word “Jews” was also erased from the BBC Radio 4 report on
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