The BBC was final night time beneath hearth for broadcasting episodes of The Apprentice starring a candidate accused of constructing ‘a stream of anti-Jewish’ feedback on social media.
Television executives refused to take the programme off-air after former NHS physician Asif Munaf continued to make ‘grotesquely antisemitic’ remarks after a BBC-organised variety and inclusion coaching course.
Dr Munaf – who now owns his personal wellness model – described Zionism as a ‘satanic cult’ within the aftermath of the October 7 terror assault.
He additionally wrote on social media that he was compiling a ‘checklist of sadistic medical doctors’ who have been ‘supporting the Zionist genocide’.
Dr Munaf had additionally stated that Zionists are ‘odiously ogour-like’ and labelled the ‘Zionist PR machine’ as ‘slimy’.
Asif Munaf described Zionism as a ‘satanic cult’ within the aftermath of the October 7 terror assault
Dr Munaf had additionally stated that Zionists are ‘odiously ogour-like’ and labelled the ‘Zionist PR machine’ as ‘slimy’
Dr Munaf was despatched on an equalities coaching course after the BBC was alerted to his tweets as soon as filming had concluded. The BBC stated had the posts been there earlier than filming, he wouldn’t have been included within the present. At the time a spokesman for The Apprentice stated: ‘After filming had taken place, we have been made conscious of issues over social media posts that Asif had made after he had left the method.
‘As quickly as we have been alerted, we took quick motion and spoke to Asif intimately on this.
‘Asif took half in specialised coaching to grasp why his posts could trigger offence.’
Dr Munaf insisted ‘it was not my intention to offend anybody’.
But since then he has continued to make controversial remarks in regards to the battle in Israel and Gaza.
Two weeks in the past he wrote that the ‘Zionist masks is falling’ and accused Israel of weaponizing the Holocaust to ‘push one other fascist ideology’.
Former director of BBC Television Danny Cohen stated: ‘Once once more, the Jewish neighborhood has been failed by the BBC’
Yesterday, Danny Cohen – former director of BBC Television – claimed the coaching ‘clearly didn’t work’ citing additional offensive remarks by Dr Munaf.
Writing in The Telegraph Mr Cohen stated: ‘The BBC’s inaction sends a message.
‘You could be racist in direction of Jews and there aren’t any penalties. You can take pleasure in fame on the BBC even in case you are the type of particular person whose views painfully remind Jewish viewers of Nazi propaganda.
‘Once once more, the Jewish neighborhood has been failed by the BBC.’
Last night time a spokesperson for Campaign in opposition to antisemitism stated: ‘How does the BBC suppose that Jewish folks react after they activate the tv and see somebody who has engaged in probably the most vicious rhetoric on their nationwide broadcaster?
‘Asif Munaf has reportedly spoken of ‘the Zionist antichrist’, the ‘slimy Zionist PR machine’, ‘odiously ogre-like Zionists’, ‘Zionist medical doctors’, ‘weaponising the Holocaust’ and extra.
‘These types of views ought to normally get you fired. At the BBC, they only put you on telly.’
Director of the Board of Deputies Marie Van der Zyl stated: ‘The BBC’s response has been extraordinarily poor. Our neighborhood feels as if viewing figures have been prioritised over combatting hideous prejudice.
‘The Corporation ought to publicly apologise for its mishandling of this example.’
Concerns about Dr Munaf have been first raised by the Jewish News after Dr Munaf appeared on BBC present Dragon’s Den.
The former medic turned entrepreneur has additionally made a collection of misogynistic movies on Instagram together with one titled ‘Have you ever met a ravishing feminist?’ and one other entitled ‘Don’t Trust What Women Say’.