Campaigners have criticised a Good Morning Britain host for failing to mention Jews as victims of the Holocaust.
Ranvir Singh has apologised for making the ‘baffling’ mistake during the ITV show’s coverage of the 80th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day yesterday.
The event commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the biggest Nazi death camp, by the Soviet Red Army in 1945.
During a segment reporting on King Charles’ visit to the camp, Ms Singh listed several groups who were murdered at the camp, but did not include Jews – who suffered the largest number of deaths.
The presenter, 47, said: ‘Six million people were killed in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as millions of others because they were Polish, disabled, gay or belonged to another ethnic group.’
Ranvir Singh apologised for making the ‘baffling’ mistake during the ITV show’s coverage of the 80th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day yesterday
During a segment reporting on King Charles’ visit to the camp, Ms Singh listed several groups who were murdered at the camp, but did not include Jews – who suffered the largest number of deaths
The Campaign Against Antisemitism shared the footage on X and accused Ms Singh of ‘dire reporting’.
‘Jews. The word you’re looking for is ”Jews”, not ”people”. This truly beggars belief,’ the group said.
‘This dire reporting is not only factually incorrect but erases Jews from a genocide in which six million Jewish men, women and children were slaughtered specifically because they were Jews.
‘How is it possible, therefore, that on Holocaust Memorial Day of all days, @GMB manages to acknowledge several other groups but not Jews?’
The CAA said that during the whole two-minute segment on Holocaust Memorial Day, which included a piece to camera from GMB correspondent Nick Dixon live from Auschwitz, there was only one mention of Jews.
They accepted that the segment mentioned history students taking a tour of the Jewish quarter of Kraków but said it failed to mention the word ‘antisemitism’.
Issuing an apology today, Ms Singh said: ‘In yesterday’s news, when we reported on the memorial events in Auschwitz, we said six million people were killed in the Holocaust but crucially failed to say they were Jewish.
‘That was our mistake, which we apologise for.’
More than a million people were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Most of them were Jews, while others were Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and members of other persecuted groups.
ITV has been contacted for comment.
