Video has emerged of Jeremy Corbyn telling Iranian TV that the BBC is biased ‘towards Israel having a right to exist’ – reigniting the anti-Semitism row after the Labour leader’s refused to apologise for abuse of Jewish people by his activists.
In the clip filmed during between 2004 and 2012, when Mr Corbyn was a backbench MP he says:
![Jeremy Corbyn said: 'I think there is a bias [in the BBC] towards saying that Israel has a democracy in the Middle East, that Israel has a right to exist, Israel has its security concerns.'](http://wardoon.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/corbyn-says-bbc-is-biased-towards-saying-israel-has-a-right-to-exist-1.jpg)
Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘I think there is a bias [in the BBC] towards saying that Israel has a democracy in the Middle East, that Israel has a right to exist, Israel has its security concerns.’
‘I think there is a bias [in the BBC] towards saying that Israel has a democracy in the Middle East, that Israel has a right to exist, Israel has its security concerns.’
He had talking about the BBC’s coverage of the Middle East TV to Press TV, a broadcaster headquartered in Tehran.
The clip also shows him saying: ‘[There is] pressure on the BBC from probably Mark Thompson, who seems to me to have an agenda in this respect.
There seems to be a great deal of pressure on the BBC from the Israeli government and the Israeli embassy and they are very assertive towards all journalists, they challenge every single thing. on reporting the whole time.
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