24 May 2021
A ‘Palestinian Specialist’ for the BBC has been revealed to have said that “Hitler was right” and compared the Jewish state of Israel to Nazi Germany.
The BBC has launched an investigation after one of its digital journalists, Tala Halawa, was reported to have posted on her social media in 2014 that “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler! Oh, #HitlerWasRight – IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) go to hell #PrayForGaza.”
The post was uncovered by Honest Reporting, an NGO which claimes to seek to counteract media bias against Israel.
The report also revealed that Halawa also said that “Zionists can’t get enough of our blood” following violence between Israel and Palestine in 2014.
LONDON: Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen has criticized Twitter and its CEO, Jack Dorsey, over the platform’s failure to take action over antisemitic posts.
In a message posted on Saturday, Cohen wrote: “The surge in antisemitism on the streets is fueled by antisemitism on social media. @Jack @Twitter Why do you allow #HitlerWasRight?! Those who celebrate the Holocaust aim to perpetuate another. #StopHateForProfit.”
The award-winning actor also provided a link to a report published last week by the Anti-Defamation League that found more than 17,000 tweets “used variations of the phrase ‘Hitler was right’” between May 7 and May 14.
Meanwhile the BBC has announced that it is investigating one of its journalists, Tala Halawi, after media-monitoring website Honest Reporting on Sunday highlighted a Tweet she posted several years ago that included the hashtag “HitlerWasRight”.
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A BBC journalist who tweeted #HitlerWasRight seven years ago has sparked an investigation after the post was unearthed.
Tala Halawa had claimed Israel is more Nazi than Hitler and told the Israeli Defence Force to go to hell in an online post dated July 20, 2014, before she was a digital reporter at the BBC.
Halawa, whose Twitter biography identifies her as located in Ramallah, Palestine, had used the hashtag #PrayForGaza , along with #HitlerWasRight in the tweet.
A screenshot of the historic post was today uploaded online by the Honest Reporting Twitter account, which describes itself as promoting fairness and accuracy in media coverage of Israel .