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by Yair Rosenberg
January 12, 2015

Last month, BBC TV director Danny Cohen made headlines when he told a conference that he’d “never felt so uncomfortable being a Jew in the U.K. as I’ve felt in the last 12 months.” Yesterday, his own station offered a textbook illustration of the very anti-Semitic attitudes that are becoming more openly expressed in Europe, and leading its Jews to question their future there. While covering Sunday’s massive solidarity rally in Paris, BBC anchor Tim Willcox suggested that violence against French Jews might be understandable because they were collectively culpable for Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. READ MORE