Thread by @jrschlosberg

John Ware has accused 'Corbynites' including @schneiderhome of omitting evidence.

Ironically, the controversial @bbcpanorama he presented last year did exactly that...

This is how an email authored by Seumas Milne was presented to viewers in a key sequence of the programme:

“…we need to review…

…muddling up political disputes with racism”

And this is what Milne actually said in the email:

"if we’re more than very occasionally using disciplinary action against Jewish members for antisemitism, something’s going wrong, and we’re muddling up political disputes with racism. Quite apart from this specific case, I think going forward we need to review"...

The specific case was that of Jewish activist Glyn Secker who had been suspended for antisemitism. Milne was responding in the email to a request by the governance team for his "view?"

Then head of disputes Sam Matthews had himself expressed doubts about the case in an email quoted in @UKlabour's pre-broadcast reply to Panorama. The reply added in emboldened text:

"We would consider a failure to include this as being a deliberate attempt to mislead viewers as to the facts in order to support a pre-determined narrative"...

But the programme did exclude it, along with any mention that Secker was Jewish or that Milne's email was expressing concern about Jewish members facing disciplinary action for antisemitism...

The BBC has since repeatedly insisted that Labour was given a "full right of reply", including in a recent submission to the High Court...

But it has ignored requests for comment on the above example and other new evidence suggesting the programme gravely misled viewers:

novaramedia.com/2020/07/22/bbc…