‘One of the Great Journalistic Crimes of Our Age’: BBC Resignations, Trump’s Billion-Dollar Threat, and the Maccabi Fan Scandal
NOV 13, 202540 MIN
‘One of the Great Journalistic Crimes of Our Age’: BBC Resignations, Trump’s Billion-Dollar Threat, and the Maccabi Fan Scandal
NOV 13, 202540 MIN
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://zeteo.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7">zeteo.com</a><br/><br/><p>This past week, Trump took his crusade against the free press all the way across the pond, threatening the BBC with a <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-bbc-legal-threat-litigation-lawsuit-a12558769faa1063e8c7e0dfd6d8c333">$1 billion lawsuit</a> over an edit of his Jan. 6 speech. </p><p><strong>“Not only are they [the Trump administration] reshaping the media landscape in the US in their image – they’re now boasting of taking down a foreign news broadcasters’ leadership. A broadcast, of course, with global reach,” </strong>Owen says to Mehdi.</p><p>In this episode of ‘Two Outspoken,’ <strong>Mehdi </strong>and <strong>Owen </strong>meet in London to explain why the BBC is only helping Trump by <strong>“rolling over” </strong>and having their executives <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/uk/bbc-leaders-resign-amid-scandal-over-trump-speech-latam-intl">resign</a> over the scandal. They also debunk claims of the BBC’s leftist and pro-Palestine bias – revealing that it’s actually the other way around.</p><p>The two dive deep into the Labour government’s dishonest portrayal of the Maccabi fan ban in Birmingham – which police have now <a target="_blank" href="https://news.sky.com/story/significant-hooliganism-within-maccabi-tel-aviv-fan-base-is-reason-for-aston-villa-match-ban-13465257">confirmed</a> was put in place due to “significant levels of hooliganism” from the fan base, rather than antisemitic threats from inside the UK.</p><p><strong>“Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy, the British government, as well as the British media, decided to throw Birmingham under a bus…to protect racist football hooligans from a state committing genocide,” </strong>Owen says to Mehdi.</p><p>Mehdi and Owen also expose just how pro-Palestine some in Keir Starmer’s cabinet used to be, with Mehdi telling Owen that they, <strong>“threw their own views under the bus for power.”</strong></p><p>Paid subscribers can watch the full interview. Free subscribers can watch a 3-minute preview. Consider <a target="_blank" href="https://zeteo.com/subscribe">becoming a paid subscriber</a> today to skip the paywall every time!</p><p><strong><em>Check out more from Zeteo:</em></strong></p>
![<description>This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://zeteo.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">zeteo.com</a><br/><br/><p>This past week, Trump took his crusade against the free press all the way across the pond, threatening the BBC with a <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-bbc-legal-threat-litigation-lawsuit-a12558769faa1063e8c7e0dfd6d8c333">$1 billion lawsuit</a> over an edit of his Jan. 6 speech. </p><p><strong>“Not only are they [the Trump administration] reshaping the media landscape in the US in their image – they’re now boasting of taking down a foreign news broadcasters’ leadership. A broadcast, of course, with global reach,” </strong>Owen says to Mehdi.</p><p>In this episode of ‘Two Outspoken,’ <strong>Mehdi </strong>and <strong>Owen </strong>meet in London to explain why the BBC is only helping Trump by <strong>“rolling over” </strong>and having their executives <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/uk/bbc-leaders-resign-amid-scandal-over-trump-speech-latam-intl">resign</a> over the scandal. They also debunk claims of the BBC’s leftist and pro-Palestine bias – revealing that it’s actually the other way around.</p><p>The two dive deep into the Labour government’s dishonest portrayal of the Maccabi fan ban in Birmingham – which police have now <a target="_blank" href="https://news.sky.com/story/significant-hooliganism-within-maccabi-tel-aviv-fan-base-is-reason-for-aston-villa-match-ban-13465257">confirmed</a> was put in place due to “significant levels of hooliganism” from the fan base, rather than antisemitic threats from inside the UK.</p><p><strong>“Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy, the British government, as well as the British media, decided to throw Birmingham under a bus…to protect racist football hooligans from a state committing genocide,” </strong>Owen says to Mehdi.</p><p>Mehdi and Owen also expose just how pro-Palestine some in Keir Starmer’s cabinet used to be, with Mehdi telling Owen that they, <strong>“threw their own views under the bus for power.”</strong></p><p>Paid subscribers can watch the full interview. Free subscribers can watch a 3-minute preview. Consider <a target="_blank" href="https://zeteo.com/subscribe">becoming a paid subscriber</a> today to skip the paywall every time!</p><p><strong><em>Check out more from Zeteo:</em></strong></p></description>](https://us-central1-podcastguru-217d6.cloudfunctions.net/gcf_get_image?image_url=https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts221/v4/83/d2/6d/83d26de9-e938-0f29-9553-7f378a38917c/mza_14931949176729577468.jpg/600x600bb.jpg&width=300&height=300&api_key=xqFmUFX5BHLBTA)
