SWC accuses BBC of broadcasting “blood libels”

[Behind the Aegis]

LONDON (EJP)--- The UK branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has lodged a complaint with the British Broadcasting Corporation over a transmission which the SWC claim contained “antisemitic blood libel.”

Simon Wiesenthal Centre-UK Chairman, Graham Morris, said: "in my car yesterday afternoon I switched on to BBC Radio 4 and I found myself listening to a young voice with a slight
Iranian accent telling a story of a young girl lost in the bazaar of an Iranian city.

“I was staggered to hear the girl say that she suspected the man who looked after her and held her hand to be the child snatcher whom her nanny had warned her against, being ’the Jew who snatches and kills Muslim children and makes bread with their blood’".

In his complaint to the BBC Morris said: "I listened again to the story yesterday evening on your website and discovered that it was part of a series entitled Uncovering Iran and the story was Vakil Bazaar by Simin Daneshvar, an Iranian author.

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