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BBC edits out “Free Palestine” at BAFTAs, leaves in racial slur from man with Tourette Syndrome

Rob Beschizza
Feb 23, 2026
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A Bafta gong

The BBC did people with Tourette Syndrome no favors by broadcasting a racial slur at the BAFTA awards. That they could have spared audiences was evident from the two-hour tape delay and the editing out of Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr’s cry of “Free Palestine!”

The man was John Davidson, the subject of the British indie film “I Swear,”…

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