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Huffington Post // Entertainment

ITV's Robert Peston In Passionate Plea To End Anti-Semitism And 'Love Our Neighbours'

Tuesday 7th October 2025, 1:41PM


Robert Peston delivers his powerful monologue.ITV’s Robert Peston has delivered an impassioned plea for politicians to tackle rising anti-semitism in the wake of last week’s terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester.The veteran broadcaster said “hatred of Jews is proliferating, not just here but all over the world” and more must be done to confront it.His comments, in a powerful monologue at the start of his current affairs programme on Monday, came after two Jews were killed and three others were seriously injured in a knife attack carried out by Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent.Looking straight at the camera, Peston said: “I have a question for you. Do you hold Jews responsible for the mass killing, starvation and destruction in Gaza? And if you say no, are you nonetheless suppressing anger against Jews who don’t speak out against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government?“If so, you are an anti-semite. Unless that is, which I doubt, you also hold Russians in Britain responsible for Putin’s murder of Ukrainian civilians or you hate British Iranians for the actions of the Tehran government. In which case, you’re dangerously nuts.”He added: “Some of you may not be able to suppress the thought that the kill

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