For months, I’d been working on an investigation on Muslim news platform 5Pillars for Jewish News. Regulator Impress has now found it guilty of breaching discrimination rules for a second time in 2024, and the story could be published.
Muslim media organisation 5Pillars has again been found guilty by the regulator Impress of breaching the discrimination clause of its Standards Code following a complaint from the Community Security Trust.
The verdict relates to an episode of the organisation’s Blood Brothers podcast and is the second guilty verdict Impress has handed down against 5Pillars this year.
The CST told Jewish News it “welcomes the ruling and the confirmation that 5Pillars had given an unchallenged platform to air their antisemitism”.
The latest ruling relates to an interview with former deputy leader of the far-right organisation Britain First, Jayda Fransen, by host Dilly Hussain in an episode entitled ‘Britain First, Christian nationalism and the Zionist agenda’.
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