Meanwhile, in South Africa:
A South African TV presenter has been dropped for challenging a guest who compared the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) announced on Friday it was taking broadcaster Juliet Newell off air following her "conduct" when interviewing Doctor Mamphela Ramphele, the chair of the Desmond Tutu Intellectual Property Trust trust.
When discussing the conflict in Gaza, Ramphele compared the situation to the Holocaust, saying "it's the same thing".
Newell pushed back, asking Ramphele how she could compare the two.
Bad mistake.
After the interview, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) hit out at the SABC saying that by allowing broadcasters to caveat words such as "genocide" with the word "alleged", it was "whitewashing" the situation.
Shortly after the interview was aired, the SABC released the statement: "The [SABC] is aware of the matter relating to the conduct of one of its news presenters in an interview conducted with Dr Mamphela Ramphele.
"As such, SABC News management took immediate action in line with the SABC’s internal processes, and the presenter in question is currently not scheduled.
"[SABC has] established policies to ensure the dissemination of diverse viewpoints aimed at building trust with the public and in ensuring that our content, in all its formats, continues to resonate with the prescripts of our public mandate."
Eh? In other words, our content must continue to resonate with the antisemites who run this country.
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