Tom Gross, the assiduous monitor of press coverage of Israel and the Jews, points out a simply astounding entry on the BBC’s website for children. Under the heading ‘Guides: the Holocaust', it says the following:

‘What was it? The Holocaust was a mass murder of millions of people leading up to and during the Second World War.

The killings took place in Europe between 1933 and 1945. They were organised by the German Nazi party which was lead [sic] by Adolf Hitler.

Most of the victims died because they belonged to certain racial or religious groups which the Nazis wanted to wipe out, even though they were German citizens’.

This kind of killing is called genocide’.

As Gross notes, this (a) neglects to mention Jews (b) falsely states most victims were German citizens, and (c) encourages the myth that other groups were persecuted by the Nazis in anything like the way Jews were. Despite the fact that Gross says he brought this to the attention of the BBC, as of Sunday evening at 5pm it was still unamended.* Since this page was posted by the BBC as a side issue to the story about Prince Harry’s swastika armband, and since the point of that episode was the appalling apparent ignorance of what the Holocaust actually was and what it represented, the BBC’s own ignorance — indeed, worse than that, its absorbtion of Holocaust revisionism which downplays the centrality to that event of the extermination of the Jews — is appalling indeed. And while it is true that other BBC pages on the Holocaust do not repeat these omissions and distortions, the point about this particular page is that it is designed specifically for children, who are less likely to know much about it.

*Update, 19 January: The page has now been amended.