Toyota designer called BBC employee ‘vile Jew’ and ‘little rat’ - The Jewish Chronicle

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.”

In one tweet from March 27, 2025, in a response to a BBC article about Palestinians protesting in Gaza against Hamas, Klarowski allegedly wrote: “The little rat and Israel fanboy Raffi Berg, the Middle East editor at BBC, was definitely happy to publish this one.”

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In another, from April 10, in response to a BBC article reporting on the violent treatment of some Palestinians in Israeli prisons, he said: “Is Raffi Berg, the vile Zionist Jew, supporter of Israel’s genocide and war crimes and the Middle East editor at BBC on his annual leave?”

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Then, on May 31, the account posted a tweet asking if Berg, “the filthy Zionist Jew” was “finally sacked”.

And on April 8, the account described Berg as a “supporter of the genocide of Palestinians and other war crimes committed by the Israeli Zionist Jews,” and accused the BBC of having a “pro-Israel bias going way back”.

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In January, the JC reported that Berg was intending to sue Owen Jones after an article by the columnist and activist led to a torrent of antisemitic abuse, including death threats.

Raffi Berg, the BBC’s online Middle East editor. (Photo: X/@raffiberg)[Missing Credit]

In a pro-Palestine protest outside the BBC Broadcasting House in London that month, Berg was accused by the crowd of “killing babies”.

In another post from Klarowski’s suspected X account from April 8, he wrote: “Who run the world? Jews (Jews).”

And on May 26, the account called Israeli Zionist Jews the “sickest, most disgusting supremacist, genocidal and subhuman creatures on Earth”.

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The post went on: “Absolute filth. Calling them rats or pigs would only be offensive to these animals and wouldn’t come close to capturing how f*cked up and irredeemable this society is.”

The Toyota Code of Conduct asks employees to “ensure that our communication online is not obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, discriminatory or hateful to another person or entity”.

Klarowski studied at a bachelor’s degree in visual communication and graphic design at Edinburgh College of Art, according to his LinkedIn.

Photo: X/@klarowski[Missing Credit]

Woven by Toyota says it is investigating after receiving a complaint about the alleged antisemitism of a senior employee against a Jewish editor at the BBC, the JC understands.

A spokesperson from the BBC told the JC: "We condemn these antisemitic attacks on a member of staff. Such abuse is always unacceptable."

The JC has contacted Toyota for comment but was unable to reach Piotr Klarowski.

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