Ranvir Singh during a news segment on “Good Morning Britain” on Jan. 27, 2025. Photo: Screenshot

“Good Morning Britain” host Ranvir Singh issued an apology Tuesday on air after failing to mention Jewish victims of the Holocaust during her coverage of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“In yesterday’s news, when we reported on the memorial events in Auschwitz, we said six million people were killed in the Holocaust but crucially failed to say they were Jewish. That was our mistake, which we apologize for,” said Singh, 47.

During a news segment on the ITV show on Monday morning, Singh discussed the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, and reported on how King Charles was set to become the first British monarch to visit the site of the former Nazi death camp later that day for a special ceremony in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Singh talked briefly about the history of the Holocaust but when listing its victims, she failed to include Jews, who the Nazis sought to eliminate through genocide during World War II.

“Six million people were killed in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as millions of others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belonged to another ethnic group,” Singh said on air.

The British organization Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) criticized Singh in a post on social media for her failure to mention Holocaust victims who were Jewish.

“Jews. The word you’re looking for is ‘Jews,’ not ‘people.’ This truly beggars belief,” CAA said. “This dire reporting is not only factually incorrect but erases Jews from a genocide in which six million Jewish men, women, and children were slaughtered specifically because they were Jews.” It additionally noted that there was no mention of the word “antisemitism” in the news segment.

“To make matters worse, there is no reference to Jewish people at all for over two minutes into this segment, and when there finally is one, it is only done once and in regard to former history students taking a tour of the Jewish quarter of Kraków,” CAA observed. “If this is intended to pay respect to the victims of Holocaust Memorial Day, it has failed abysmally and ignores the true nature of this horrific event.”

Michael Dickson — the executive director of StandWithUs in Israel, a nonprofit that combats antisemitism — said “deleting Jews” when discussing the history of the Holocaust and “the attempt to annihilate them” is “a slap in the face to Holocaust survivors and victims’ families.” He also said Singh’s acknowledgement of the “mistake” is “the opposite of a full-hearted apology.”

After Singh’s apology on air, ITV released a statement about the incident.

“In our studio introduction to the report on the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz we failed to acknowledge the Jewish community which we have since apologized for live on air in today’s program,” ITV noted, according to the British publication The Sun. “This failure was done in error, however clear reference to Jewish people in the correspondent news report from Auschwitz immediately followed, as well as a further extended program report referencing the six million Jewish victims.”

“Yesterday’s program also included a live studio interview with a survivor of Auschwitz, Rachel Levy, alongside Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Trust, both of whom talked candidly about their own experiences as Jewish people,” the statement continued.

However, CAA said that even after ITV’s apology for the “scandalous blunder,” it would still like to know “how did such an obvious mistake happen in the first place?”

“The irony of this sort of ‘forgetfulness’ on a day of remembrance is not lost on us,” CAA added. “Holocaust Memorial Day is first and foremost a day to memorialize the six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered by gas and bullet by the Nazis and their collaborators. Its principal lesson is the need to bravely combat antisemitism whenever it arises, including in our own time. Given that Britain is currently experiencing the worst antisemitism in living memory, that lesson is more important than ever. Why, then, does our society keep failing to learn it?”

King Charles, 76, appeared to shed a tear as he listened to testimonies from survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp during Monday’s ceremony at the site. He was joined by other world leaders including King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of The Netherlands, Spain‘s King Felipe and Queen Letizia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Belgium‘s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, Norway‘s Crown Prince Haakon, and Sweden‘s Crown Princess Victoria.

King Charles also visited the Jewish Community Center in Krakow on Monday. During a speech, he said the “evil” that took place during the Holocaust should ensure the world will never again “be a bystander in the face of violence and hate.”

“As the number of Holocaust survivors regrettably diminishes with the passage of time, the responsibility of remembrance rests far heavier on our shoulders, and on those of generations yet unborn,” he added. “The act of remembering the evils of the past remains a vital task and in so doing, we inform our present and shape our future.”

The United Kingdom holds the presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) — an intergovernmental organization comprising dozens of countries — from March 1, 2024, until Feb. 28 2025.