Mick Hartley

This is who Hamas calls ‘Press.’

This is who the @BBCNews uses to present ‘facts.’

It’s one thing to be played, it’s another to be paying for it. pic.twitter.com/D84mdJ4iC1

— Josh Howie (@joshxhowie) April 26, 2025

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From the Telegraph:

A journalist who appears prominently on the BBC’s Arabic channel to report from Gaza called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did”, it can be revealed.

Samer Elzaenen has appeared on BBC Arabic more than a dozen times since the conflict erupted following the October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel….

In a Facebook post in July 2022, he stated: “When things go awry for us, shoot the Jews, it fixes everything.”

Elzaenen has also appeared to call for a repeat of the Holocaust, stating on Facebook in May 2011: “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.”

He's not the only one.

Ahmed Qannan, another regular BBC Arabic freelance contributor, appears to have expressed his hope that Israelis wounded in a shooting near a Jerusalem synagogue, which claimed the lives of seven civilians on Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2023, would also die.

Writing on Facebook in response to a friend who stated “We want to see some throats cut”, Qannan replied: “Don’t give up on your ambition”. Qannan also described a 26-year-old Palestinian who killed four civilians and a police officer in a series of shootings in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak in March 2022, as a “hero”.

As the article goes on to state, these people aren't direct employees of BBC Arabic: they're freelance, which means the Beeb can continue to use them while denying direct responsibility. The wider point though, which the BBC refuses to acknowledge, is that any reporter operating inside Gaza must be Hamas-approved – otherwise they wouldn't be reporting and would most likely be shot. These two just happened to be a bit careless with their social media.