BBC reporter comes under fire for tweet saying 'Hitler was right'
BBC News correspondent Tala Halawa has recently come under fire for a series of antisemitic tweets that have been unearthed by pro-Israel Twitter user Gnasherjew, according to Honest Reporting.
Halawa is a BBC digital journalist who specializes in
Palestinian affairs and covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In one of the tweets from July 2014, Halawa wrote that
“#Israel is more #Nazi than #Hitler! Oh, #Hitlerwasright #IDF go to hell.”
In another post on Facebook, she shared an image with the
slogan “Solution for Israel Palestinian conflict – relocate Israel into United
States,” which she captioned to be an “easy and simple world solution! To
enlightening the ‘dark radical’ middle east."
This same image was also shared by UK Labour Party
politician Naz Shah, leading to her suspension in 2016.
Almost three years after she published these posts, Halawa
was hired by the BBC.
In a comment to The Spectator, a BBC spokesperson said,
“These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC but we are nevertheless
taking this very seriously and are investigating.”
In its article Honest Reporting stated, “these are not the
tweets of an objective reporter. Quite simply, not only does Halawa fail to
meet BBC’s own stated requirements, she represents the polar opposite of what
is expected of any professional journalist.”
Comments
Post a Comment