One Howard Jacobson has published a novel and in a book review published in The UK Independent, I found this quotation:

As far as Kalooki Nights was concerned, it was written in anger about the whole business of being Jewish... The English, as far as I can see, are interested in any kind of ethnic minority, Asians, Africans, anybody but the bloody Jews...

Somehow, I think this is a good enough explanation of the problems Israel has with the BBC as any.