The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) rejected a call from more than 200 Jewish staffers, contractors, suppliers, and contributors for a formal investigation into its alleged anti-Semitic reporting.
The call came in a July 19 letter whose signatories included Danny Cohen, the former director of BBC Television; “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” Executive Producer Neil Grant; Fulwell 73 managing partner and former “Cinderella” Executive Producer Leo Pearlman; Claudia Rosencrantz, former controller of entertainment for ITV; and Will Daws, managing director at Plum Pictures.
“We write to you today to request an urgent formal investigation by the BBC board into systemic problems of anti-Semitism and bias at the BBC, alongside senior management’s demonstrable failure to properly address the issue,” the letter stated, adding the signatories’ “anguish and…
