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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 585

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Screen capture of BBC Chair Samir Shah, right, and Director Tim Davie as they speak to the UK parliament's Culture, Media & Sport Committee, March 4, 2025. (YouTube: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 5, 2025, 4:45 pm
BBC chief: Gaza documentary scandal a ‘dagger to the heart’ of our impartiality
Chair Samir Shah tells lawmakers ‘proper independent review’ needed; teenage son of Hamas figure at center of controversy reportedly featured in another UK news broadcast last year
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Stephen Fry gives Channel 4's alternative Christmas message, December 25, 2023. (Channel 4 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 26, 2023, 11:04 am
Stephen Fry decries antisemitism in Christmas video, is pilloried online
British Jewish actor urges UK citizens to speak out against Jew hatred; wave of commentators accuse him of playing ‘victim’ while not caring about Palestinians in Gaza
By Michael Horovitz
Sarah Silverman (right) is one of several Jewish stars who feature in David Baddiel's documentary 'Jews Don't Count,' which discusses whether Jews lack allies in progressive spaces. (Channel 4 via JTA)
November 22, 2022, 4:57 pm
‘Jews Don’t Count’? UK comic David Baddiel brings a provocative book to primetime TV
Guardian hails ‘a doc so shocking it sounds like a siren’; exploring the normalization of antisemitism, it includes thoughts from Sarah Silverman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen Fry
By Jacob Judah
Screen capture from video of then-actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky in his TV comedy series 'Servant of the People.' (YouTube)
March 2, 2022, 10:44 pm
TV comedy series starring Zelensky as president gets boost in popularity
‘Servant of the People’ has been snapped up by UK’s Channel 4 as well as broadcasters in Bulgaria, Moldova, Estonia, France, Finland and Georgia
By HILARY FOX
Adolf Hitler (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons)
March 25, 2014, 10:44 pm
UK TV show buys ‘Hitler’s hair’ from Holocaust denier
Channel 4 pays David Irving £3,000 for a lock of the dictator’s hair for DNA testing, only to find that it’s fake
By Marissa Newman
March 7, 2013, 10:32 am
Greece to probe threats to turn immigrants ‘into soap’
Golden Dawn political party claims politician’s comments were a ‘joke’ filmed illegally
By Gavin Rabinowitz
In footage recorded by a hidden camera, the head of Britain's Union of Hebrew Congregations advises an alleged victim of sexual abuse not to go to the police. (Channel 4)
February 1, 2013, 12:29 am
London Haredim slam TV exposé on sexual abuse in community
Leadership claims Channel 4 documentary distorts rabbis’ response to allegations of misconduct against children
By Miriam Shaviv
A Channel 4 documentary scheduled to air Wednesday comes at a particularly sensitive time for London's Haredi community. (Illustrative photo: Flash90)
January 24, 2013, 10:46 pm
UK Haredi chief caught telling alleged victim not to tell police about abuse
Channel 4’s hidden camera records Rabbi Ephraim Padwa advising accuser not to seek help from the authorities
By Miriam Shaviv
Channel 4's "Dispatches" program shows how top Israeli thinkers imagine Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might act during a military confrontation. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Channel 4)
November 6, 2012, 12:35 am
British TV show airs Israeli think-tank’s upbeat simulation of attack on Iran
Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches’ screens footage of recent ‘war game,’ raises questions about whether Israel’s top strategists are overly optimistic about the outcome of a strike
By Miriam Shaviv
A Channel 4 documentary scheduled to air Wednesday comes at a particularly sensitive time for London's Haredi community. (Illustrative photo: Flash90)
October 31, 2012, 7:53 pm
Rumors of rabbi’s sexual misconduct raise tensions among UK Haredim
Long-simmering scandal threatens to divide those who want to involve secular authorities and those who want to deal with abuse internally
By Miriam Shaviv
"Strictly Kosher" star Bernette Clarke, who joked affectionately on TV about her sons' circumcisions, has earned mostly warm reviews from other British Jews, who see her as a positive representative of the community. (Photo credit: Courtesy of ITV)
October 25, 2012, 12:13 pm
Unexpected TV stardom has British Jews cringing, kvelling and just plain confused
Suddenly everywhere on the small screen, UK Jewry debates its portrayal in popular culture — and finds it hard to stop watching
By Miriam Shaviv
Free Syrian Army members fire at targets as they train on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, Thursday (photo credit: AP)
June 8, 2012, 11:45 pm
UK journalist: Syria rebels led me into death trap
Channel 4 News’s Alex Thomson says he was deliberately set up to be shot by military so rebels could score propaganda coup
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