QT: Gaza 9/5/2024

yesterday evening (thursday 9th), 11.16pm, 11.18-11.20pm, and 11.26-11.42pm, on bbc 1 tv 

question time (presented by fiona bruce) includes …

“Diane Abbott … there’s been some kind of investigation going on into comments that she made which she has apologised for, for something like a year now, how can that still be going on, and she’s not admitted back into the Labour Party, when Natalie Elphick is admittted in, and then she apologised?”

“Israel is threatening a major invasion of the city of Rafah in Gaza. Is it time for our government to stop arms sales to Israel?”

including panellists …

• activist grace blakeley

• lisa nandy mp

• nigel huddleston mp

• humphrey cobbold, puregym

NC: Antisemitism 2023

last monday morning (24th april), 9.37-9.39am, 10.15-10.34am, and 10.38-10.56, on bbc radio 5 

nicky campbell (phone-in programme) includes …

“Nicky hears your experiences of antisemitism.”

• rabbi jonathan romain 

• sandra, manchester

• emily sinclair, oxford university 

• jake, north shields 

• journalist rachel shabi, author, we look like the enemy: the hidden story of israel’s jews from arab land

• gillian (jewish voice for labour?)

• chris, barrow in furness

• tim, barry (“third generation holocaust survivor” criticising israelis)

NQ/HIGNFY: Abbott suspended

yesterday evening (friday 28th), 6.43-6.46pm (repeated 12.43pm, and 10.43pm monday) on bbc radio 4, and 9.06-9.09pm on bbc 1 tv 

the news quiz (presented by andy saltzman) and have i got news for you (presented by richard ayoade) include …

“Which politician this week was criticised not for speaking without thinking first, but for writing having thought not once but at least twice about it, and then still writing it?”

including contributions from …

• ria lina 

“Everyone’s antisemitic in their first draft, aren’t they? The first draft of Jaws was actually called Jews!”

• scott bennett 

• ian hislop

• paul merton 

• political commentator marina purkiss

• phil wang 

TM: Starmer on Abbott

yesterday morning (tuesday 25th), 10.03-10.06am, on itv 1 

this morning (presented by philip schofield and holly willoughby) leads with …

“It’s a very important week, you’re launching a campaign outlining your commitment to tackling violence against women, and then over the weekend, you have a major distraction with Diane Abbott?”

including interview with …

• keir starmer mp 

(see also https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/keir-starmer-outlines-the-party-process-for-deciding-diane-abbotts-labour-future/ and https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-diane-abbott-saga-brings-the-bad-old-days-back-into-view/ and https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/rachel-reeves-labour-will-look-to-israels-economic-miracle-to-halt-uk-decline/)

Nn: Abbott suspended

this evening (monday 24th), 10.45-10.55pm, on bbc 2 tv 

newsnight (presented by kirsty wark) includes …

“Diane Abbott racism fallout”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter nicholas watt  

• activist and journalist ben smoke 

• actress tracy-ann oberman

PL: Abbott suspended

this afternoon (monday 24th), 12.36-12.42pm, on bbc 2 tv 

politics live (presented by jo coburn) includes …

“Should Diane Abbott be expelled from the Labour Party?”

including discussion with …

• thangam debbonaire mp

• journalist sonia sodha 

• professor matthew goodwin 

• laura farris mp

(see also https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/diane-abbott-suspended-as-labour-mp-over-claim-jews-dont-face-racism-all-their-lives/ and https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/growing-calls-for-diane-abbott-to-stand-down-ahead-of-next-election/)

W@1/PM/6ocn: Abbott suspended

this afternoon (monday 24th), 1.04-1.05pm, 5.41-5.45pm, and 6.19-6.20pm, on bbc radio 4 

world at one (presented by sarah montague), pm (presented by evan davis), and six o’clock news, include …

“The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has described as antisemitic comments about racism made by the MP Diane Abbott.

She was suspended from Labour’s parliamentary party yesterday after suggesting in an article that Jewish Irish and Traveller people suffered prejudice, not racism.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter ian watson 

• david lammy mp 

T: Oyneg Shabes 80

this morning (monday 24th), 8.22-8.29am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by justin webb and mishal husain) includes …

“On Radio 4 today, at 1.45, a new series begins which explores horror and humanity, the story of the extraordinary resilience of so many of the men women and children herded in the years after 1940 into the prison within a city known as the Warsaw Ghetto.

It is eighty years since the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the act of resistance that led to the mass slaughter by the Nazis of as many as thirteen thousand people.

All of it is a story that has escaped to the modern age in part at least becase of an organised effort to write accounts of what life was like.”

including interview with …

• actress tracy-ann oberman

T: Abbott suspended

this morning (monday 24th), 6.09am, 6.36-6.39am, and 7.13-7.18am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by justin webb) includes …

“The Labour MP Diane Abbott is no longer a Labour MP, suspended very swiftly by her party, after writing a letter to the Obesrver newspaper which seemed to suggest that anti-Jewish racism was on a par with discrimination against people with red hair.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter ione wells 

• pat mcfadden mp

6ocn/Nh: Abbott suspended

this evening (sunday 23rd), 6.04-6.06pm on bbc radio 4, and 9.36-9.41pm on bbc world service radio 

six o’clock news and newshour (presented by tim franks) include …

“The former shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Parliamentary Party for suggesting that Jewish Irish and Traveller people suffer prejudice but not racism.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter helen catt 

• journalist rachel shabi, author, we look like the enemy: the hidden story of israel’s jews from arab lands