Marie van der Zyl, then President of the Board of Deputies, as cited in President"BBC accused of insulting Jews for employing 'Corbyn cheerleader' on Rise of the Nazis documentary" The Telegraph (3 September 2019)
• In a tweet (September 2018), Sarkar had defended two individuals responsible for the vandalism of a surviving wall of the Warsaw Ghetto as "not antisemitic. They’re anti-racist". On the wall, they had spray painted "free Gaza and Palestine, liberate all ghettos". Sarkar's participation in a BBC documentary series Rise of the Nazis was contentious.
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We would ask the BBC to explain why someone who defended the desecration of a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has been invited to speak on a programme about the rise of the Nazis. Given the outrage her comments have caused, the invitation by the programme makers seems both insensitive and provocative.

— Marie van der Zyl

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We would ask the BBC to explain why someone who defended the desecration of a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has been invited to speak on a programme about the rise of the Nazis. Given the outrage her comments have caused, the invitation by the programme makers seems both insensitive and provocative." in the context of "Marie van der Zyl, then President of the Board of Deputies, as cited in President"BBC accused of insulting Jews for employing 'Corbyn cheerleader' on Rise of the Nazis documentary" The Telegraph (3 September 2019)
• In a tweet (September 2018), Sarkar had defended two individuals responsible for the vandalism of a surviving wall of the Warsaw Ghetto as "not antisemitic. They’re anti-racist". On the wall, they had spray painted "free Gaza and Palestine, liberate all ghettos". Sarkar's participation in a BBC documentary series Rise of the Nazis was contentious." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Ash Sarkar

About Ash Sarkar

Ashna Sarkar (born 1992) is a British journalist and self-described libertarian communist political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Sarkar is a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent.