Mick Hartley

Nothing to see here – just another reporter used by the BBC who turns out to be a rabid antisemite:

Gaza reporter Ahmed Alagha has reportedly been banned from appearing on the BBC’s Arabic service after describing Jews as “devils” and Israelis as “not human beings”.

Alagha, a regular contributor to BBC Arabic’s coverage of the war in Gaza, was barred from the channel after The Telegraph uncovered derogatory and antisemitic comments apparently made by the journalist on social media.

In one post, following Israeli strikes in Gaza, Alagha reportedly wrote that the Israeli occupation "is the embodiment of filth, the unrivalled swamp of wickedness,” adding: “As for the Jews, they are the devils of hypocrites.”

The following day he reportedly said: “The ‘Israelis’ are not human beings to begin with, rather they are not even beasts. Perhaps they belong to a race for which no description can capture the extent of their lust and sadism.”

Alagha, described on air as a Palestinian journalist, has appeared on BBC Arabic reporting from Gaza numerous times since January last year.

And fitted right in.

“BBC Arabic’s editors specifically seem to be trapped inside an echo chamber,” a spokesperson for Camera UK said.

“This precedent would be unimaginable were Alagha to target any other minority group in the UK, let alone a group involved in the same conflict he purports to cover.”