HL: Gaza 26/3/2024

this morning (wednesday 26th), 12.25-1.10am, on bbc parliament tv 

house of lords 26/3/2024 includes …

“Gaza and Israel statement.”

speeches by baron or baroness … Ahmad (C) Smith (Lab) Newby (LD) Austin (XB) Deech (XB) Swire (C) Blower (Lab)

Gohir (XB) Grocott (Lab) Grade (XB) Craig (XB) Turnberg (Lab) Bishop of Leeds Helic (C) Walney (XB)

(transcript at https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-03-26/debates/587782BD-91FB-4B4D-B81F-8AF4C2C0F7D8/IsraelAndGaza)

(if you missed it, available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001xtbc/house-of-lords-israel-and-gaza-statement)

T: Gaza 14/2/2024

this morning (wednesday 14th), 6.01-6.02am, 6.08-6.09am, 6.10-6.13am, 6.42-6.51am, 7.00-7.02am, and 8.10-8.19am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by simon jack and justin webb) leads with

“Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing pressure over the culture within the Labour Party, after he suspended a second parliamentary candidate.”

“Talks over a possible temporary truce in Gaza have been taking place in Cairo between Israel and the US, with Egypt and Qatar also involved as intermediaries.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter harry farley 

• bbc reporter barbara plett usher

• jeremy purvis

• david cameron

• baroness angela smith 

• baroness arminka helic

• david pannick kc

• ian austin

• bbc reporter ed thomas

• mike katz, jewish labour movement

• john healey mp

(see also https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-02-13/debates/43E1465D-10FC-4BE4-A9B3-8AD9E1DB8AD1/ChildrenInGaza)

JV: Mirvis intervenes

BBC BIAS: BBC presenter Jeremy Vine interviews a spokesman from Jewish Voice for Labour (but not the Jewish Labour Movement) without mentioning that it is tiny, and is a single-issue group created solely to defend Jeremy Corbyn from criticisms of anti-semitism.

BBC BIAS: BBC presenter Jeremy Vine interviews (non-Jewish) former Labour MP Ian Austin and a spokesman for Jewish Voice for Labour instead of a responsible spokesman for the Labour Party.

tuesday 26th november, 12.02pm, 12.07-12.19pm, 12.23-12.28pm, and 12.32-12.38pm, on bbc radio 2 

jeremy vine leads with …

“Jeremy discusses the Chief Rabbi’s comments on anti-semitism in the Labour Party.”

including interviews with …

• ian austin

• jonathan rosenhead of jewish voice for labour 

and calls from …

• ann robinson, formerly of unison 

• adam morris 

• gareth hopkins, a stockport labour party member claiming to have been accused of antisemitism for having a palestinian flag tattoo on his arm in edgware 

(if you missed it, available from 0:02:24 to 0:02:45, 0:07:34 to  0:19:00, 0:23:04 to 0:28:15, and 0:32:28 to 0:37:50, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bmzs)

W@1: Corbyn’s history

this afternoon (sunday 24th), 1.36-1.43pm, on bbc radio 4 

world at one (presented by mark mardell) includes …

“Corbyn is perhaps driven by his anti-colonialism, whether the colonial powers are in South America, Vietnam, the Middle East, or Ireland. He’s never changed, but he’s now haunted by that history. Many Labour campaigners who knock on doors will tell you time and time again white working-class men in particular will raise his support for Hamas, and with great disgust the IRA. The former Labour MP Ian Austin agreed [sic] with him in the Commons: ‘The Leader of the Opposition the Shadow Chancellor, these are people who spent their entire time in politics working with, defending, all sorts of extremists and in some cases terrorists and anti-semites’.”

including contributions from …

• actress maureen lipman

• ian austin mp 

• journalist john crace 

• stephen pound mp 

• laura parker of momentum

QT: Austin on Corbyn

yesterday evening (thursday 7th), 10.46-11.07pm, on bbc 1 tv 

question time (chaired by fiona bruce) leads with …

“With Ian Austin telling Labour voters to vote Tory, and umpteen other inter-party fallouts, how can we trust you if you cannot trust each other?”

including panellists  …

• barry gardiner mp

• kirstene hair mp

• humza yousaf msp

• businessman iain anderson

• journalist and broadcaster angela haggerty

6ocn: Austin on Corbyn

this evening (thursday 7th), 6.08-6.10pm, on bbc radio 4 

six o’clock news includes …

“Two former Labour MPs, Ian Austin and John Woodcock, have urged people to vote for Boris Johnson rather than Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Austin, who left the party in February, said the Labour leader was completely unfit to lead his party and the country.”

including report from …

• bbc reporter ian watson

W@1: McDonnell on Corbyn

this afternoon (thursday 7th), 1.05-1.06pm and 1.09-1.13pm, on bbc radio 4

world at one (presented by sarah montague) includes …

“I don’t know if you’ve seen the Jewish Chronicle this morning, it’s given over its front page to a letter which they say is ‘To all our fellow British citizens’, and the first sentence of the article says ‘The vast majority of British Jews consider Jeremy Corbyn to be an anti-semite’, and it ends that ‘if he’s chosen to be our next prime minister, the message will be stark, that our dismay, our fears of what that will mean, where it will lead, are irrelevant’,”

including interview with …

• john mcdonnell mp

Today: Austin on Corbyn

this morning (thursday 7th), 6.43-6.44am, 7.09-7.18am, 7.43-7.44am, 8.03-8.05am, and 8.28-8.33am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and nick robinson) includes…

“I think he’s spent his entire time in politics working with and defending all sorts of people, extremists and in some cases antisemites and terrorists.”

“Most shamefully of all, for a party that’s got a proud record of fighting for equality and opposing racism, the Labour Party’s been poisoned with anti-Jewish racism under his leadership, and it is a complete and utter disgrace.”

“If you’re not going to do what’s right on a fundamental question like racism, what are you going to do it on?”

including contributions from …

• ian austin mp

• bbc reporter chris mason

• rebecca long-bailey mp

Newsnight: Ian Austin speaks

yesterday evening (friday 22nd), 10.34-10.39pm, on bbc 2 tv (partly repeated 12.06-12.08am on midnight news on bbc radio 4)
newsnight (presented by kirsty wark) includes …

“Former Labour MP Ian Austin on Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism.”

including interview with …
• ian austin mp

Ian Austin quits

this afternoon (friday 22nd), 1.04-1.05pm, and 1.07-1.24pm, on bbc radio 4
world at one (presented by mark mardell) leads with …

“A former minister has become the ninth MP to resign from the Labour Party this week. Ian Austin, who’s been a Labour member for 45 years, said he was appalled by its response to claims of anti-semitism. He warned that the hard left had become completely entrenched in the party under Jeremy Corbyn, who he said was not fit to be Prime Minister.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter jonathan blake
• ian austin mp
• ben bradshaw mp
• qadar zada, leader of dudley borough council