The BBC Covers International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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It turns out that the BBC, in covering the observances of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, failed to mention that the Nazis had killed Jews. But what did you expect? Of course, the BBC presenters wouldn’t want to specify exactly who was killed in the Holocaust. That might create greater sympathy for Jews, or worse still, for the Jewish state, that many who work for the BBC think should be regarded as the colonial-settler apartheid genocidal state of Israel, and that would never do. Better to just call the victims “people.” More on the latest lapsus by the intolerable BBC can be found here: “BBC Apologizes for Not Mentioning Jews During Holocaust Remembrance Day Coverage,” by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, January 28, 2026:

The BBC apologized on Tuesday night after at least four of its presenters failed to mention the murder of Jews in the Holocaust during the national broadcaster’s coverage of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“BBC Breakfast” presenter Jon Kay said on air Tuesday morning that Holocaust Remembrance Day was “for remembering the six million people murdered by the Nazi regime over 80 years ago.” Several BBC broadcasts by some of its most well-known presenters included similar comments that omitted the mention of Jewish victims when discussing the Holocaust.

In one broadcast, “BBC News” presenter Martine Croxall also said Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day “for remembering the six million people who were murdered by the Nazi regime over 80 years ago.”

BBC World News presenter Matthew Amroliwala introduced a bulletin on his show with the same scripted line.

On the BBC Radio 4 program “Today,” presenter Caroline Nicholls discussed plans to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and said in part: “Buildings across the UK will be illuminated this evening to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, which commemorates the six million people murdered by the Nazi regime more than 80 years ago.”

“Is the BBC trying to sever all ties with their Jewish listeners? Even on Holocaust Memorial Day, the BBC cannot bring itself to properly address antisemitism,” the Campaign Against Antisemitism posted on X. “This is absolutely disgraceful broadcasting. BBC, we demand an explanation for how this could have happened.”

The BBC addressed the mishap in a statement released late Tuesday.

“The ‘Today’ program featured interviews with relatives of Holocaust survivors, and a report from our religion editor. In both of these items we referenced the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust,” the statement read in part, as cited by GB News. “‘BBC Breakfast’ featured a project organized by the Holocaust Educational Trust in which a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust recorded her memories. In the news bulletins on ‘Today’ and in the introduction to the story on ‘BBC Breakfast’ there were references to Holocaust Memorial Day which were incorrectly worded, and for which we apologize. Both should have referred to ‘six million Jewish people’ and we will be issuing a correction on our website.”…

And then there are the BBC reporters who cover the Middle East and for years have been filling the minds of tens of millions of BBC viewers around the world with their own anti-Israel animus. Here is the Dishonor Roll: John Simpson, Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet, Orla Guerin, Barbara Plett Usher, Yolande Knell.

Remember how Ilhan Omar described the 9/11 terrorist attack as when “some people did something”? She was trying to avoid mentioning that the terrorists were Muslims. Now BBC presenters have described the Holocaust as a time when “six million people” — ethnicity unimportant, ethnicity need not be mentioned — were killed. What will it take to make the BBC reassign those reporters who cover Israel with such intolerable bias, or better still, terminate them for, as Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice would say, “they have delighted us long enough”?