Professor scolds BBC live on-air for refusing to label Hamas 'terrorists'
Author and professor Matt Goodwin scolded the BBC live, on the air over the network's decision not to label Hamas as "terrorists" Monday.
Goodwin was on the BBC's "Politics Live" when he became infuriated during a conversation about people who sympathize with Palestinians and the way British Jews have been treated since Hamas launched its deadly terror attacks on Israel.
"I can’t remember a time in my life when I felt more ashamed by our national debate, and our country, as I have over the last week. I’ve tried to imagine how I would feel if I was a British Jew. We have a national broadcaster, the BBC, unable to call a Nazi-inspired, ISIS-inspired terrorist group ‘terrorists,’" Goodwin said.
"We have the same broadcaster investigating BBC Arabic journalists for expressing sympathy for Hamas, we have the institutions of our national community, like Wembley Stadium, showing the rainbow flag to protest against Qatar, but not showing the colors of Israel in solidarity," he continued. "And we have the universities, where I work, a few years ago fall over themselves to express solidarity with George Floyd, and what happened centuries ago in America, but are unable to issue the same condemnation of what has happened in Israel."
Goodwin went on to say that anti-Israeli protesters and anyone who glorifies terrorism should be "treated the same way as supporters of ISIS."
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