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BBC Records Then Cuts ‘You’re Fired’ Scenes Of ‘Apprentice’ Contestant Accused Of Antisemitic Posts Following Backlash


'You're Fired': BBC scenes cut of Apprentice's Dr Asif Munaf after antisemitic posts and backlash.

The BBC has bowed to a torrent of pressure from Jewish staffers and groups by cutting scenes of an Apprentice contestant from the You’re Fired companion show following antisemitic tweets. After Hamas’ October 7 attack, Moore was made the BBC Board’s antisemitism representative, and yet insiders feel she has been far too slow to get a lid on the Munaf debacle. Munaf was still appearing on the show in the week that Deadline revealed a senior BBC scheduler was facing disciplinary action for a string of antisemitic Facebook posts in which she referred to the “holohoax” and peddled extreme conspiracy theories.

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