Reacting to Director-General Tim Davie’s speech on rebuilding trust in the BBC, Board of Deputies President Phil Rosenberg commented:
“Tim Davie is quite right to have the aspiration of making the BBC a world-leader on building trust.
“But it cannot possibly credibly do so until it puts its own house in order. The BBC still keeps on its payroll Gary Lineker, the taxpayer’s high-cost pundit who regularly baits the Jewish community and has, just this week, had to delete a post which used the classic antisemitic trope of a rat to describe Zionism.
“The Corporation continues also to show alarming bias in respect of its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including refusing to call Hamas a ‘terrorist’ organisation, despite its proscription under successive governments. Yes to building trust, but the BBC needs to start at home.”