Reply #29: well I agree. I don't think BBC was being anti-Semitic but they were engaging in sloppy reporting

[Douglas Carpenter]

by allowing this author who expressed views - unchallenged by the interviewer - that could reasonably be interpreted as anti-Semitic and could reasonably be thought to be the kind of claims that could encourage anti-Semitic notions.

If someone who claimed expert authority appeared on a highly respected media outlet - made claims that purported to be factual that could put it into peoples minds that their neighbor down the street or their corner shop keeper might either by a Mossad agent or an Islamist terrorist - I would hope responsible journalist would see the need to challenge such assertions.

That being said, over all I think the BBC is one of the finest news services in the world.