{"id":120690,"date":"2023-10-29T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120690"},"modified":"2023-10-29T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T12:50:14","slug":"kemi-badenoch-hits-out-at-bbc-for-refusing-to-call-hamas-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/kemi-badenoch-hits-out-at-bbc-for-refusing-to-call-hamas-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch hits out at BBC for refusing to call Hamas terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has become the latest high-profile figure to criticise the BBC for refusing to call Hamas terrorists amid its conflict with Israel.<\/p>\n

It comes after a surprise attack by Hamas on October 7 has resulted in growing conflict in the region. Now, Badenoch has told the Daily Telegrapha \u201cfalse equivalence\u201d has been made by the Beeb in \u201can attempt to be impartial\u201d.<\/p>\n

Defending the UK continuing to deal with Qatar – which is rumoured to be housing Hamas members – she said: \u201cGiven all of the footage that we saw, we were in no doubt that what we were looking at was a terror attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you stop doing business with people, if you stop talking to them, then you have less influence and you\u2019re unable to help shape the outcome of events.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Badenoch, who is also the minister for women and equalities, backed up her assertion at the Conservative Party that the UK is \u201cthe best country in the world to be Black\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the G7 Trade Summit in Osaka, Japan, she said she believes the country is as good a place to be Black as it is white. The politician, who was born in London but spent part of her childhood in Nigeria, said: “I think so.<\/p>\n

“Being an ethnic minority, irrespective of what country you\u2019re in, is challenging and that is just human nature. Even in countries where everybody is Black, when you have ethnic minorities within them, as I saw within Nigeria, they often face very significant discrimination, more so than the sort of discrimination that I have seen myself in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cI\u2019m not saying that our country is perfect, but I\u2019m saying that our country is better than others in handling differences. The message I would say to many of those people who want to portray life in the UK as being so terrible is that if it was so, why is it that people keep coming here?\u201d<\/p>\n

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