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VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS A statue of George Orwell, cigarette in wing is not as bad as its military wing) have hand, stands proudly outside Broad- resigned, accused of fostering a culture of casting House. One wonders what groupthink so rigid that logic is stifled in the the great moralist would make of the name of inclusivity and impartiality. Our national broadcaster, which charges state the corporation finds itself in today – one that soft-pedals on us all £15 a month, has lost its grip on Islamism, refuses to call clarity and truth. Orwell had a word Hamas terrorists, refers for it: Newspeak. The manipulato women as “pregnant tion of language until reality itself becomes negotiable. people” and describes The rot that has spread for illegal migrants as years came sharply into view in “undocumented the weeks after 7 October 2023, people attempting to cross the Channel”. when the Board of Deputies met The broadcaster Orwell BBC director general Tim Davie worked for in the 1940s has and members of his senior team to drifted disturbingly close to express outrage at the corporation’s refusal to describe Hamas’s barbaric becoming the very Ministry of Tim Davie assault as terrorism and its apparent Truth he imagined in his masterpiece 1984 – a department devoted to revi- readiness to treat information peddled by the “militant group” as credible. Those present sion and official falsehood. After years of controversy, and with its recall that Davie was the only one in the room charter set to expire in two years, the corpo- who seemed to be genuinely listening. Two weeks ago, the Daily Telegraph pubration is at its lowest ebb. Its director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness lished a dossier by Michael Prescott, an Continued on page 2 (who instructed staff that Hamas’s political
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