A journalist, who appears to have been featured frequently on the BBC’s Arabic channel, praised Hamas terrorists and reportedly called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did.”
Samer Elzaenen, 33, a regular contributor reporting from the BBC Arabic Gaza Strip has found that there is a long history of anti-Semitism posts online. According to In Telecommunications.
In a 2011 post, Erzenen wrote on Facebook: “My message to the Zionist Jews: We are going to reclaim the land. We love death for Allah, just as you love life. We will burn you like Hitler, but this time you will not leave.”
Recently, in 2022 he is said to have written:
Broadsheet said on his various social media platforms, BBC contributors praised more than 30 terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and branded terrorists as “heroes” and “martisans” ascending into “heaven” while welcoming the death of innocent Jews.
Following the October 7 terrorist attacks, which killed more than 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds more hostages, Erzenen is said to have praised Hamas Muslims, including those who attacked young people at the Nova Music Festival as “resistance fighters.”
BBC Arabic frequently faces accusations of supporting anti-Semitism voices, including when it branded the October 7 attack as an example of “initiative” and welcomed footage as a “proud scene” of Israeli hostages.
But the anti-Semitism scandal on British public broadcasters is not just from BBC Arabic. Last year, top BBC3 staff members were fired after being told on social media that “Isrealis is a “colonial species of white invaders on the subcontinent,” a colonial species with zero indigenous peoples/bloods,” and that Jews are “parasites of Nazi apartheid.”
Last month, the BBC faced a call for an anti-terrorist investigation after it was revealed that it had paid the families of high-rank Hamas officials to appear in the documentary. Gaza: How to survive a war zone.
The BBC has approved payment Abdullah al-Yazouri, the 14-year-old son of Hamas Agriculture Minister Dr. Ayman Al-Yazouri, was portrayed as the average civilian despite having family ties to one of the founders of the Islamic terrorist group.
In response to the latest scandal, the BBC noted that contributors are not considered staff members.
The spokesman said: “We hear from the scope of eyewitness testimony from the Strip, as international journalists, including the BBC, are not permitted to access Gaza.
“These are not BBC members on staff, nor are they part of the BBC reporting team. We weren’t aware of individual social media activities before we heard from them. It’s clear that there is no anti-Semitism place in our services.”
