BBC Contributor Called for Jews to Be Burned ‘Like Hitler Did’, Praised Hamas as ‘Resistance Fighters: Report.
Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesA supposed journalist often featured on the BBC’s Arabic channel reportedly praised Hamas terrorists and called for Jewish people to be burned “like Hitler did”.
Samer Elzaenen, 33, a regular contributor who reports from the Gaza Strip for BBC Arabic, has been found to have a long history of anti-semitic posts online, according to The Telegraph.
In a post from 2011, Elzaenen reportedly wrote on Facebook: “My message to the Zionist Jews: We are going to take our land back, we love death for Allah’s sake, the same way you love life. We shall burn you as Hitler did, but this time we won’t have a single one of you left.”
More recently, in 2022, he is said to have written: “When things go awry for us, shoot the Jews, it fixes everything.”
The broadsheet said that across his various social media platforms, the BBC contributor praised over 30 terror attacks on Israeli civilians, and branded the terrorists as “heroes” and “martyrs” who would ascend to “heaven”, while revelling in the deaths of innocent Jews.
Following the October 7th terror attacks, which left over 1,200 Israelis dead and hundreds more taken as hostages, Elzaenen allegedly praised Hamas Islamists, including those who attacked young people at the Nova music festival, as “resistance fighters”.
BBC Arabic has frequently faced accusations of propping up anti-semitic voices, including when another contributor branded the October 7th attacks as an example of “taking an initiative” and hailed footage of Israeli hostages as a “proud scene”.
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