(Jewish News) The broadcast watchdog Ofcom has ruled that a television channel serving the Shia Muslim community in the UK broadcast content that “amounted to antisemitic hate speech” and was “abusive and derogatory towards Jewish people.”
Investigating a complaint made by the Community Security Trust (CST), Ofcom announced that the Ahlebait channel had committed “serious” breaches with the airing of a discussion show and that they had put them “on notice that we will consider them for the imposition of a statutory sanction.”
The complaint related to a live discussion programme, broadcast in March 2021, on a show called 20th Hour, hosted by Mohsin Abbas and featuring Clive Menzies and David Musa Pidcock as guests.
