Justin Webb admits he should have phrased antisemitism question to Ed Miliband better
What the absolute fuck is this line of questioning by Justin Webb? It’s worse than pure grandstanding; it’s querying Miliband’s faith.
EagleOwl166I listened in disbelief. It's impossible to get your head around the fact that Justin Webb believes Ed Miliband isn't Jewish enough because he doesn't attend synagogue.
piskyinpresbyland.bsky.social134Also: why does supporting international law make any British Jews, observant or otherwise feel less safe? Why are we accepting that framing? When did it become commonplace that the only way to feel safe is supporting ethnic cleansing?
Andy Econo102It's querying his ethnicity. Doubly horrific as Ed's father Ralph was fleeing the Nazis when he arrived in the UK.
Joanne Limburg57His ethnicity as Jewishness doesn’t depend in faith. Either way, it’s entirely unacceptable.
Steve Jary53Imagine Justin’s surprise when he visits Israel and discovers that a high proportion of Israeli jews aren’t remotely religious.
Captain Haddock43“You’re only a real Jew if you go to synagogue” is like saying ‘You’re only a black person if you listen to reggae”
madeline odent226This is insane and also I think we should start doing this very specifically to politicians who profess Christianity and use it to justify their policies
JL Kaufmann26Because a posh white Christian goy is EXACTLY who gets to tell a Jew if he's a proper Jew or not. For fuck's sake, Britain, what are we even doing here?
Keiron Pim9Webb is right that Jews who attend shul are at greater risk than secular ones but his logic is flawed in assuming that these entirely correct sanctions raise the threat level. And it’s odious to imply that secular Jews endanger our religious counterparts by holding Israeli extremists to account.
Jason9"I note, minister, that you sport a neat short back and sides, rather than Hasidic payots. Why should anyone listen to you - a proven bacon sandwich chomper - who probably thought Iran were treated shabbily at the World Cup? Can you, for example, quote me ten word-perfect Lenny Bruce routines..."
Rick8That thing they teach you when you first start interviewing people for jobs. Would you ask this question of a non-Jewish Foreign Secretary?
This is extremely clumsily done. Webb's point is that observant Jews have skin in the game in terms of being at risk of attacks which non-observant Jews don't. But he conflates observant Jewishness with support for Israel, while also ignoring that Miliband explicitly supports Israel.
Philip O'Connor8The BBC is now the Breitbart Broadcasting Corporation. A once-proud public broadcaster has been politicised into becoming a far-right propaganda machine, exactly as the Tories and their donors wanted.
Allie Morgan7On a complete side note it's kind of funny that Miliband is still best known for awkwardly eating a bacon sandwich and yet these idiots assume he's devout as fuck because they can't conceive of the concept of ethnicity.
Finn6This is gross and you can complain here www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎6This 👇 is Antisemitic by Webb. A man whose been called oy for racist Whistles about Muslims
Justin Webb is doing the ‘you’re not a *proper* Jew, are you?’ thing to Ed Miliband on the Today programme right now.
Metal Gear Solidarity98Since this announcement, these people aren't saying crazier things than usual, but they are saying them to and about different people...
Fatima O'Hara55I think getting a prominent BBC job like Today must be a bit like getting tenure at a university. Makes you essentially unsackable unless you're a woman, from a minority or the tabloids catch you out. Makes for a lot of smug sods who have no fear of consequences
Mic Wright51I’ve written more about this brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
Rootless Cosmopolitan50Never forget who this creep is.
Huw Marshall 🏴44Fuck me, just listened to it. WTAF is going on with BBC news?
Tom O'Connell39The same Justin Webb who did the *actual climatologist* vs Nigel Lawson debate interview that breached broadcasting standards? www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt727If you’re not Jewish you won’t understand how simultaneously hurtful and enraging this is I can only imagine how hard it must be for Ed Miliband, the son of literal Holocaust survivors - whatever you think of him, he does not deserve this
Patrick Andelic485I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.
Aliza Adi (she/her)335The transphobia to antisemitism pipeline at the BBC One of the BBC's most committed anti-trans activist presenters, live on air accusing a Jewish man of not being Jewish enough for his liking
Elaine Crory38Not for the first time and not for the last I imagine. Same thing with Polanski. Turns out these folk think there is one right way to be Jewish and that's to switch off your brain and mouth and do whatever conservative Christians tell you to do
Grace Robertson 🏳️⚧️34"the bbc doesn't have a conservative bias, it just has an incumbent party bias"
Naadir13It continues to be good that takfirism amongst Muslims is an indicator that you need a Prevent counterterrorism referral, but takfirism against Jews who don't 110% support Israel is just centrist common sense.
Cethan Leahy11Probably not great that the media feel emboldened to just say it now when in the past, it was all wink wink nudge nudge photos of bacon sandwiches.
⭐️Star⭐️9What’s lovely about Judaism is you’re ‘allowed’ to do the bits you want and not the others. The theory is, there’s no such thing as a perfect Jew, we can always be better. So there’s no such thing as a ‘proper’ Jew.
Paul McMc7Lol, who remembers when the media told us antisemitism was bad?
Patrick Samphire 🏴6This is the BBC, its flagship news programme.
because Justin Webb is openly and brazenly right wing he is untouchable at the "woke left wing" BBC
Chaminda Jayanetti128if you're openly right wing and you are at the BBC you have the best job security of anyone at the entire corporation, because they won't touch you because they fear the Telegraph headlines that would follow.
Adam Squires28Fwiw I will be going to synagogue for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. At one of the shuls targeted in the recent arson attacks. As it's my first time, for security, I had to register in advance and provide my previous shul for them to check. I think Mervis's comments were completely inappropriate.
Toby Morgan2He needs shipping off to GB News
The Duck of Mestwinster1Am I glad I'm an atheist. Nobody can argue with my faith.
The shit Justin Webb gets away with. Now he wants to decide who is Jewish enough. What a heel
Justin7Between this with Milliband and the shameful unwillingness to accurately describe what was happening this week in Portsmouth and Dover, the BBC seems to have some problematic white supremacy particles.
Sophie Collins5One of many reasons for dumping Today. The presenters are largely really awful journalists
Gareth Edwards5Noted that, like Zack Polanski, Ed Miliband has been relegated to 'of Jewish heritage'
Stuart Hemingway4Wonder how many Christian’s he has put this question to. Questioning how religious a person is just gives rise to their own prejudices.
Can we get Justin Webb round a table with other British Jews really to test his understanding on all this? Michael Rosen, Miriam Margolyes and Alexei Sayle, for example…? Excellent and expert enlightenment (especially from Rosen) here: bsky.app/profile/hava...
Ehijacked 📎4I wonder if he would ask Farage if the sinister, masked Christian nationalist blackshirts who terrorised two major UK ports at the weekend if THEY went to church on Sundays? I think we know the answer.
I listened in disbelief. It's impossible to get your head around the fact that Justin Webb believes Ed Miliband isn't Jewish enough because he doesn't attend synagogue.
Chris Nimmo61It’s part of the reason I no longer listen to the Today programme.
Antony Simon 🇬🇧🇿🇦6Plenty of Jewish people don't attend and eat pork. Webb seems to ascribe Jews as some sort of monolith?!
Polly Curley3The fact that he has the balls to sanction Israel must be really upsetting for Webb. As for linking sanctions to the security of British Jews. If the State of Israel wasn't engaged in Genocide in Gaza, and "Settlers" weren't in the West Bank, then the XRW would have no excuse for their racism.
PhilMoore3Justin Webb is a Murdoch plant, always has been, so Miliband should have told him to go give his head a wobble.
Tony Tagliatelle2The British establishment has always regarded disloyal Jews as untermensch.
Travellersuzy2If we recognise that @justinwebb is a Trump supporter,I guess it starts to make sense. He can't criticise Israel because... Trump therefore it must be the quality of Jewishness in Miliband. Bonkers
I'm not that familiar with Justin Webb, but a quick search is quite revealing. You do have to wonder what entitles somebody like him, who isn't trans, to think he should have any say in issues regarding trans people.
horror Ewacui12like this! he's been on one for years at this point, and he interviews like a child smashing trains together. no skill, no finesse, barrelling over their answers, just awful both in style AND content bsky.app/profile/chur...
God Made Me Trans3The BBC has a long history of employing and promoting paedophiles.
Justin Webb Is A Piece Of Shit Part 3972 #r4today bsky.app/profile/bend...
Gail Marie2Will he be asking leading muslims about going to Mosques considering that the hate & attacks on them them dwarves the attacks on Jewish places & Jews but it's only crimes committed by muslims that get reported not the crimes against them
Kunikos1Doesn’t the buffoon recall the bacon sandwich hoohah when the press piled on to Milliband?
Who the fuck appointed Justin Webb to be the arbiter of Jewishness? Because sure as shit my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail
Jenn de Jeune7Justin Webb is a self appointed arbiter, just as he is with Trans people’s rights & what a jolly nice fellow Trump is…
Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler)6WASPs get to decide, those are the rules.
Joan Hunter Dunn3I had to listen twice to make sure I'd heard it properly. So unusual to get a Today journo explaining to Jews/women/black people what they should do.
Von Hitchofen ™⍼☈♅ 🛩👹😬2Most Israeli Jews are hilonim, like Miliband, unlike the Chief Rabbi, who used to live on an illegal West Bank settlement.
hispanic! at the Dystopie1Right, who died and made him king of the Jews?!
Informed Takes1That's the hasbara device whereby Zionists proclaim themselves as Jew-Whisperers. None of us could possibly understand Jews unless it's through a Zionists translation. It's more convenient to pretend as if they are able to speak on behalf of Diaspora Jews who have already rejected their ideology.