‘BBC’ orders training on antisemitism and anti

The BBC ’s outgoing director, Tim Davie, has lifted his longstanding objection to training staff on how to avoid antisemitism, and has ordered that they undergo a course on it and anti-Muslim prejudice within six months.

“The BBC Academy has spent the last few months developing new anti-discrimination training. We’re starting with e-learning modules on antisemitism and Islamophobia, which we expect staff across the BBC to complete,” he wrote to staff on Wednesday.

The move followed a long string of incidents featuring antisemitism involving BBC personnel, and a scandal tied to the BBC ’s coverage of Israel. That scandal, which led to the pulling offline of a documentary, was over the use of a Hamas-affiliated family to depict the suffering of Gazans presented as innocent civi