LONDON (JTA) – A journalist for the BBC based in Ramallah in 2014 tweeted “#HitlerWasRight” about Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
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Honest Reporting, an Israeli organization whose mission statement is “promoting fairness and accuracy in media coverage of Israel,” offered a screen capture on Sunday of a tweet by Tala Halawa, whose account on the LinkedIn social network lists her as a “Digital Journalist at BBC Monitoring,” a position she began in 2017.
Last week, Halawa was credited on the BBC website for participating in the writing of an article titled “Israel-Gaza violence: The children who have died in the conflict” between Hamas and Israel, which reached a ceasefire on Friday following 11 days of fighting.
In 2014, she was working for 24FM, a Palestinian radio station.
Reacting to earlier hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, she wrote on Twitter: “#Israel is more #Nazi than #Hitler! Oh, #HitlerWasRight #IDF go to hell. #prayForGaza.”
“These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC, but we are nevertheless taking this very seriously and are investigating,” a BBC spokesperson said Sunday in response to a query by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Halawa had worked for six months as a researcher for The New Yorker, according to her LinkedIn account, before taking up a position with the BBC.
“These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC, but we are nevertheless taking this very seriously and are investigating (a way to bury this story)” a BBC spokesperson said Sunday
BBC & AP so far cuaght with their pants down. They are both fake news and the enemy of the people.
“These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC”
Why did they hire her in the first place? Why did she think BBC would be a good fit for her?
What does it matter where this jew hater works?
I have come to realize, these jew haters are not afraid to hate and use their real names. This is a sign of how powerful the evil has become. While the good is afraid to be doxxed and mobbed at their own homes with police doing nothing to protect them, and homeowners running a risk of being charged for brandishing a gun