Nigel Farage "off his head" over anti-semitism and the BBC
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Reform's Deputy Leader, Richard Tice, popped up on the BBC today and appeared to dismiss the antisemitism claims of Jewish men who’d been at school with Nigel Farage as “politically motivated…made up twaddle“. Hours later, Farage exploded at a BBC reporter during a press conference, demanding an apology for what he said was "despicable" coverage of the antisemitism row by the BBC.
Farage has previously admitted to the slurs but excused them as school boy banter. So, where does all this leave a party that claims to “take antisemitism very seriously"? Well, rather well off - some would observe. The party received a massive 9 million pound donation today, making UK history. Don’t donors mind? Or is the party impervious to cancellation?
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| 0:10.1 | Do you think saying to a Jewish person, Hitler was right, is direct racial abuse? |
| 0:16.6 | Yes, I do. And I'm quite sure that I can't believe anybody would have said that. |
| 0:23.0 | Including your leader? |
| 0:24.6 | Yes, this is all made up twaddled by people who don't want Nigel to be Prime Minister of the country. |
| 0:29.6 | Funny how they didn't remember this three years ago, six years ago, ten years ago, ten years ago. |
| 0:33.2 | He told Michael Crick some years ago of this. He's a BAFTA and Emmy winning director of producer whose grandparents came here from Nazi Germany. |
| 0:41.9 | He has never forgotten it. |
| 0:43.4 | Because let me tell you, if you are racially abused, which you won't have been Richard Tice, I suspect. |
| 0:48.6 | You don't tend to forget it. |
| 0:50.3 | It gets etched in your memory. |
| 0:52.1 | So do you think saying to a Jewish person, gas chambers with a |
| 0:55.5 | hiss is banter? Let's go to the other part of his statement from last week. This is made up |
| 1:00.4 | nonsense by someone who has got a politically biased motive. That is Richard Tice speaking on the BBC |
| 1:06.9 | this morning about what Nigel Farage did or didn't say as a schoolboy and he dismisses |
| 1:15.1 | the whole thing even though there are multiple accusations as twaddle. Labour has called that |
| 1:21.9 | deplorable but reform has just been granted a nine million pound donation. |
| 1:30.4 | Is Farage untouchable? |
| 1:32.9 | Will accusations of anti-Semitism hurt him? |
| 1:36.5 | Or is reform the place where no one gets cancelled? |
| 1:40.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
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