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BBC bans journalist who called Jews ‘devils’

BBC Arabic reporter Ahmed Alagha has been barred from the channel after antisemitic comments were discovered on his social media

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

Ahmed Alagha appeared on BBC Arabic earlier in May. (Photo: BBC Arabic)

Iranian protesters hold placards outside the Omani embassy hosting a fifth round of nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, in Rome on May 23, 2025. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

Trump could be about to cut a bad nuclear deal just as a weak Iran closes in on the bomb

3 min read

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 18: Alan Yentob Broadcaster and Television Executive after being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on December 18, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

‘Towering figure in British broadcasting’ Alan Yentob dies aged 78

2 min read

A UN official's claim that 14,000 Palestinian children are at risk of starvation in the next two days has been debunked, with the figure actually projected across the next year (Image: Getty)

UN forced to correct claim 14,000 Gazan children could die in 48 hours after it was debunked

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Gary Lineker has come under fire for sharing an anti-Zionist lecture on Instagram

Gary Lineker leaves BBC and will not present next year’s World Cup coverage after antisemitism row

2 min read

Gary Lineker launches 'Walkers Spell & Go' at Marble Arch on April 15, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

Malcolm Green

By Malcolm Green

I made Lineker Walkers Crisps icon – but his ideas are the real junk food

4 min read

Gary Lineker has come under fire for sharing an anti-Zionist lecture on Instagram

Gary Lineker ‘apologises unreservedly’ for sharing post about Zionism that included picture of a rat

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

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Lineker’s criticism of Israel is ‘grotesque’, says Brendan O’Neill

The Spiked journalist delivered a scathing critique of the BBC pundit for his anti-Israeli activism

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

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May 14, 2025 14:08

Lineker’s criticism of Israel is ‘grotesque’, says Brendan O’Neill

Gary Lineker shares anti-Zionist lecture from account that claimed Israel ‘controls the US government’

A copy of the video has since been flagged in relation to X’s ‘hateful conduct’ regulations

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May 13, 2025 12:01

Gary Lineker has come under fire for sharing an anti-Zionist lecture on Instagram

BBC journalist who praised Holocaust revisionist announced winner of British Council award

Layla Bashar Al-Kloub previously described the suspected killer of an Israeli rabbi as a ‘Palestinian martyr’

By Imogen Garfinkel

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May 12, 2025 09:38

BBC Arabic journalist Layla Bashar Al-Kloub, who won a British Council award, has previously condemned the 'Zionist entity'. (LinkedIn)

BBC’s Nova documentary We Will Dance Again honoured by Emmy Awards

Film about October 7 honoured with top award and two nominations at International Emmys

By Jane Prinsley

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May 5, 2025 10:26

A DJ plays while rockets fall at the Nova music festival, October 7 2023. A film about the atrocities has been honoured by the Emmy Awards (Photo: Avi Medina/BBC/Sipur/Bitachon365/MGM)

Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Another day, another antisemite on BBC Arabic

So used are we now to the Corporation employing rabid Jew haters that no one even bats an eye anymore when it emerges that one of its regular contributors is a Hitler fanboy

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April 29, 2025 15:12

Samer Elzaenen has repeatedly featured on BBC Arabic, but the Telegraph reported that he took to social media to call for Jews to be burnt 'like Hitler did'

Jake Wallis Simons

By Jake Wallis Simons

To demonstrate ‘impartiality’, the BBC shows the worst Jews they can find

Theroux’s settler documentary doesn’t illuminate – it rehearses the same old narrative

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April 29, 2025 11:43

Louis Theroux's documentary on the settlers on BBC 2 (BBC)

Who is Daniella Weiss? The ‘Godmother’ of Israel’s settler movement now calling for a return to Gaza

Weiss was recently featured in Louis Theroux’s documentary about the Israeli settler movement

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April 28, 2025 11:08

Portrait of Daniella Weiss in her home in the Israeli settlement of Kedumim (Credit: Flash90)

BBC Arabic contributor posted ‘We are all Hamas’ and ‘shoot the Jews’

Freelance Gaza reporter called for Jews to be burned ‘as Hitler did’ and praised terror attacks against Israelis

By Jane Prinsley

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April 27, 2025 12:29

Samer Elzaenen has repeatedly featured on BBC Arabic, but the Telegraph reported that he took to social media to call for Jews to be burnt 'like Hitler did'

Jonathan Dimbleby claims Jewish leaders boost antisemitism by failing to criticise Netanyahu

The BBC presenter reveals he had wanted to make that point during a talk at Bergen-Belsen death camp

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April 25, 2025 12:54

Jonathan Dimbleby gives a reading during the Service of Thanksgiving for Forces' (Photo by Yui Mok/Getty Images)

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