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Toyota designer called BBC employee ‘vile Jew’ and ‘little rat’

Raffi Berg, the corporation’s online Middle East editor, was also accused of being an ‘Israel fanboy'

June 18, 2025 15:10
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The social media comments were made by an alleged employee of Woven by Toyota, the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. (Getty Images)
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A Jewish employee at the BBC has been called a “vile Zionist Jew” and a “little rat” on social media by a senior employee at Toyota, the JC can reveal.

The comments directed at Raffi Berg, the BBC’s online Middle East editor, were just some of a catalogue of anti-Israel and antisemitic remarks posted by an X account which the JC understands to belong to Piotr Klarowski, who has worked for the automotive manufacturer for three years.

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According to his public LinkedIn profile, Klarowski is a senior product experience designer at Woven by Toyota – a subsidiary of the Toyota Motor Corporation, responsible for developing future technology.

Based in Tokyo, Japan, Klarowski’s bio on X reads: “From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free. Israel, a settler-colonial, genocidal, Jewish, apartheid state has to be destroyed. BDS isn’t enough.”

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