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Ash Sarkar is a British journalist and left-wing political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at Anglia Ruskin University and the Sandberg Institute.

Sarkar is a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent and is a regular commentator on politics and society in UK broadcast and online media, appearing on shows including Question Time, Good Morning Britain, Sky News, Channel 4, Daily Politics, and Newsnight.

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Ash Sarkar is a British journalist and political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute and Anglia Ruskin University Sarkar is a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent and is a regular commentator on politics and society in UK broadcast and online media.

Ash Sarkar is 27 years old as of 2019. She was born on 17 April 1992, in London, United Kingdom

Ash Sarkar Early life and Education|Where did Ash Sarkar go to school?

Sarkar grew up in North London and was raised by her mother. She attended a comprehensive school before moving to a selective grammar school for sixth form education. She gained undergraduate and masters degrees in English Literature from University College London.

BBC draws outrage over anti-Israel activist in new ‘Rise of the Nazis’ documentary

Ash Sarkar expressed “solidarity” with those who spray-painted “Free Gaza and Palestine, liberate all ghettos” on one of the last remaining parts of the Warsaw Ghetto wall.

(September 3, 2019,/ JNS) BBC Two has come under fire for featuring in a new documentary an activist who defended the anti-Semitic spray-painting of a Warsaw Ghetto wall.

Novara Media senior editor Ash Sarkar is included in the three-part program “Rise of the Nazis,” which premiered on Monday.

In September 2018, the self-proclaimed Communist and BDS supporter expressed “solidarity” with those who spray-painted “Free Gaza and Palestine, liberate all ghettos” on one of the last remaining parts of the Warsaw Ghetto wall. She denied the defacement was anti-Semitic.

Jewish historian and professor Sir Simon Schama called Sarkar’s inclusion in the documentary “really appalling.”British-Jewish actress Tracy Ann Oberman told Patrick Holland, BBC Two’s channel editor,

“as someone who lost family [sic] during The Rise of The Nazis I am deeply disturbed that of all knowledgable [sic] experts/historians, you use Ash Sakar a woman who endorsed the spray painting of the remaining WatsawGhetto [sic] wall-an open grave for our families. Why?”

She labeled Sarkar “a momentum propagandist” and told BBC to “rethink your ‘experts’ please. Too much insensitivity and lack of diligence on this. I’m sure @BBCTwo didn’t mean to cause offense with this Sakar booking but it has and it makes a mockery of the subject matter.”

Board of Deputies’ president Marie van der Zyl blasted the “insensitive and provocative” inclusion of Sakar in the program. British-Jewish television presenter Rachel Riley called it “upsetting and downright insulting.”

Sarkar said on Tuesday that she rejects “wholeheartedly claims of anti-Semitism,” noting that she has received racist abuse for her program appearance.

BBC accused of insulting Jews for employing ‘Corbyn cheerleader’ on Rising of the Nazis documentary

The BBC was accused of being “downright insulting” to Jews by selecting a Corbynista who endorsed anti-Israel graffiti in the Warsaw ghetto as an expert in a documentary on the Nazis.

Leading figures in British Jewry lined up to condemn the choice of Ash Sarkar to participate in BBC2’s flagship, three-part series Rise of the Nazis. Sir Simon Schama, the historian, and broadcaster, said it was “really appalling” that Ms. Sarkar appears in the documentary.

Marie van der Zyl, Board of Deputies’ President, said: “We would ask the BBC to explain why someone who defended the desecration of a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has been invited to speak on a program about the rise of the Nazis. …

Anger at BBC decision to include commentator in new Rise of the Nazis documentary who defended Warsaw Ghetto wall graffiti

Ash Sarkar, the senior editor at the Novara Media, notoriously sent her ‘solidarity’ to a woman who sprayed anti-Israel graffiti

Historian Prof Sir Simon Schama has called it “really appalling” that a BBC program about the Nazis includes an activist who defended the defacement of a Warsaw Ghetto wall site with anti-Israel graffiti.

Sir Simon, who is Jewish, criticized the corporation’s inclusion of Ash Sarkar, a senior editor of the Novara Media, on its three-part documentary, Rise of the Nazis.

In September 2018, Ms. Sarkar defended two people who sprayed “Free Gaza and Palestine, liberate all ghettos” on one of the last remaining pieces of the Warsaw Ghetto wall.

Ms. Sarkar described the words as “not antisemitic. They’re anti-racist” and sent her “solidarity” to the pair.

Despite criticism, she doubled down, saying: “I’ve done anti-racist politics all my life…why am I any more or less a legitimate voice to offer an opinion?”

Sir Simon tweeted that he was “horrified” by the BBC’s decision and that “someone should have had an editorial second thought! Really appalling.”

The Board of Deputies called it “insensitive and provocative”.

Board President Marie van der Zyl said: “We would ask the BBC to explain why someone who defended the desecration of a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has been invited to speak on a program about the rise of the Nazis.

“Given the outrage, her comments have caused, the invitation by the program-makers seems both insensitive and provocative.”

Jewish historian Simon Sebag Montefiore called it “a pretty unfortunate choice of ‘expert’” that “undermined an otherwise admirable history program”.Other Jewish figures condemned the inclusion of Ms. Sarkar, who describes herself as a Communist and is a frequent commentator on TV defending Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.

Countdown presenter Rachel Riley said including Ms. Sarkar on the program was “upsetting and downright insulting”, while actress Tracy Ann Oberman tweeted “as someone who lost family during The Rise of The Nazis” to ask Patrick Holland, BBC Two’s channel editor, why Ms. Sarkar had been used as part of the documentary.

“I am deeply disturbed that of all knowledgeable experts/historians, you use…a woman who endorsed the spray painting of the remaining Warsaw Ghetto wall – an open grave for our families”, she wrote.Ms. Oberman went on to say she was “sure BBC Two didn’t mean to cause offense…but it has and it makes a mockery of the subject matter.”

A number of British Jews confirmed that they had already complained to the BBC.

Responding on Tuesday morning to the outrage, Ms. Sarkar tweeted: “Apparently a lot of the usual suspects are very angry with BBC 2 for asking me to talk on their Rise of the Nazis series”, saying she had been asked to talk about German Communists and Stalinism.

“I don’t see why my support for Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank should disqualify me from talking about the Communist Party of Germany”, she said.

She added she “obviously reject(s) wholeheartedly claims of antisemitism” and said she had received racist abuse over appearing on the program.

The BBC defended featuring Ms. Sarkar. A spokesperson said: “As well as featuring interviews with some of the world’s leading experts on pre-war Germany,

this series asks recognized contemporary figures from different professional fields, amongst them historians and journalists, to examine in detail the motives and experiences of individual historical figures from this period.

“Ash Sarkar is one of a number of current public figures who feature, alongside representatives from military and legal backgrounds.

“She appears in this film in her role as a self-declared communist and lecturer in political theory and her contribution to the series is solely to illuminate the context and perspective of Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933, who died in a concentration camp in 1944.”

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Sarkar’s great-great-aunt, Pritilata Waddedar, was a Bengali nationalist who participated in the armed struggle against the British Empire in 1930s Bengal.

Her grandmother is a hospital carer. Her mother is a social worker who was an anti-racist and trade union activist in the 1970s and 1980s, helping to organize marches after the racially motivated murder of Altab Ali. Sarkar says that, as a child, her mother briefly met Mao Zedong while in Beijing.

Career

Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute and on Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University.

She is a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent and is a regular commentator on politics and society in UK broadcast and online media, appearing on shows including Have I Got News For You, Question Time, Good Morning Britain, Sky News, Channel 4, Daily Politics, and Newsnight.

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Sarkar lives in North London and is a Tottenham Hotspur supporter. She is a Muslim. Herr pieces of information about net worth are not yet revealed but stay ready for the update soon

Political views and reception

In her writings and commentary, Sarkar has expressed anti-imperialist, feminist and anti-fascist views. She has taken part in anti-racist, anti-fascist and anti-Trump protests (the subject of her interview with Morgan) and joined a hunger strike to protest against the detention of asylum seekers at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal center.

She supported the Stansted 15’s actions against deportation flights. After a clip of her telling Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain that she was “literally a communist!” went viral, Sarkar clarified her views as a libertarian communist, a “long term” who supports Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-austerity policies.

Sarkar’s writing and broadcasting make liberal use of humor and London slang, and she has written that politics “should be joyful and exuberant.”

Although she is not a Labour Party member, Sarkar (and Novara Media more generally) has become closely associated in media commentary with Jeremy Corbyn’s democratic socialist project: The Times has described her as “Britain’s loudest Corbynista”, and Dazed magazine said she is one of “the voices resetting the political agenda in the UK”.

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Ash Sarkar just No Platformed a pro-Brexit trade unionist

The middle-class left gets more ridiculous by the day. Today, Novara Media’s Ash Sarkar announced she has pulled out of speaking at an upcoming People’s Assembly demo, apparently because she couldn’t bear to share a platform with pro-Brexit trade unionist Eddie Dempsey.

Dempsey’s inclusion on the line-up has angered left Remainers, largely because of his support for No Deal, and they have called on Sarkar and others to pull out in protest.

Others have re-aired MP Clive Lewis’s ludicrous claim that Dempsey is a racist – purely because Dempsey once suggested in a speech that the liberal left had driven some people to support the far right.

But most of the backlash is clearly about Brexit: Owen Jones has now also pulled out, saying he wants to save his energy for the mad Remoaner ‘Stop the Coup’ demonstrations, of which he has quickly become a key part: So there we have it.

Bourgeois ‘leftists’ have No Platformed a working-class trade unionist. All because he supports Brexit. There could be no better example of how detached these people are from real radical politics and working-class interests.

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Meet the Bold Communist who called Morgan Piers an “Idiot”

The young journalist was discussing why she is marching against President Donald Trump at Westminster. On 13 July 2018, the discussion session in the “Good Morning Britain” went terribly wrong when angry communist called Piers Morgan an “Idiot”. The four people were present in the show and were debating about President Trump visit to the UK.

Furthermore, Morgan suddenly started bashing Ash for not knowing the exact figure of numbers. He also called her “pro-Obama” during the show. The conversation started heating up about Trump and Obama.

When Morgan said, “I’ve checked out some basic facts about your hero Obama” to which Ash immediately responded “He’s not my hero! I’m a communist, you idiot!”