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BBC journalist sets up anonymous Twitter account to bash Israel
Jerusalem Post ^ | September 3, 2020 | GABE FRIEDMAN

Posted on 09/03/2020 12:53:13 PM PDT by lowbridge

The Jewish Chronicle outed Nimesh Thaker, a longtime BBC World News journalist, as the man behind the now-private Not that bothered Twitter account.

Thaker’s account tweeted that Israel is “racist” and a “white supremacist state.” After Jewish BBC host Emma Barnett spoke out about the British rapper Wiley’s incendiary tweets about Jews, Thaker’s account retweeted a message saying that Barnett was using “the same old ‘antisemitism’ excuse whenever people criticise Israel.”

Wiley was banned from Facebook, Twitter and other platforms for his tweets.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; bbc; israel; mediabias; nimeshthaker; twitter

1 posted on 09/03/2020 12:53:13 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
British stealth anti-Semite. What a shocker. /s


2 posted on 09/03/2020 12:57:10 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: lowbridge

Years ago, the BBC was a respected organization.
Now, they are grouped with our low IQ, very low T media collection of assorted anal refuse. At least they still manage to turn out an occasional respectable television series. (Of course, when comparing to American TV, virtually anything else absolutely positively must be respectable.)


3 posted on 09/03/2020 1:00:23 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: lowbridge

When will the BBC fire this racist?
Will Boris Johnson demand that this hack be fired?
Time will tell.


4 posted on 09/03/2020 1:09:33 PM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: lowbridge
Speakung of the Beeb...

BBC sparks fury as pensioners fear cruel collection method of unpaid TV licence fees THE BBC's collection method for TV licence fees that have not been paid by pensioners has prompted outrage from campaigners who are accusing the firm involved of a "shock record".

Its way past time Brits had themselves a T(V) party...

5 posted on 09/03/2020 1:13:48 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mewzilla

The BBC coddled pedophile Jimmy Saville for years.


6 posted on 09/03/2020 1:14:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

Gay used to mean happy and carefree.

Journalist now means scum.


7 posted on 09/03/2020 1:26:25 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: dfwgator

Thanks for bringing this up.


8 posted on 09/03/2020 1:28:09 PM PDT by Ebony
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To: Ebony

Funny that the only person who had the courage to speak up about Saville all that time was Johnny Rotten.


9 posted on 09/03/2020 1:29:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

there sure are a lot of mentally sicko people around nowadays


10 posted on 09/03/2020 1:41:18 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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