The BBC has launched a probe into one of its reporters who wrote “Hitler was right” on Twitter.
Tala Halawa, a Ramallah-based digital reporter who wrote for BBC as recently as last week, wrote the tweet in 2014 when she was working for a Palestinian radio station, JTA reported.
“#Israel is more #Nazi than #Hitler! Oh, #Hitler was right #IDF go to hell. #PrayForGaza,” the tweet stated.
A screenshot of the tweet was published on Sunday by Honest Reporting, an Israeli organization that “promotes fairness and accuracy in media coverage of Israel.”
Tala Halawa is a "digital journalist" for the @BBC.
Halawa directly influences and creates news content watched by many millions around the world.
In what world can someone like this work for a professional news outlet? pic.twitter.com/r2LIHmZfF2
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 23, 2021
“These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC, but we are nevertheless taking this very seriously and are investigating,” a BBC spokesperson told JTA on Sunday.
Halawa has been working for BBC since 2017 and prior to that, she worked for six months as a researcher for The New Yorker.
Halawa deleted her Twitter account since the screenshot was published.
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She wouldn’t be the first Arab nazi to hide behind “pro palestine” activism, or a “journalist”. This chain of tweet was revealed after Halawa put up a clip for BBC where by she justified Mohamed Hadid’s daughter vitriol (which she also used the apartheid slur), she also misstated about the ‘throwing the Jews into the sea’ within a “palestinian” slogan. Worth mentioning that Hitler-lady deleted those tweets only after being exposed of course. How did the BBC “missed” that?
I’m confused, how is Israel worse. Did they take the gas chamber and crematorium plans and upgrade them to make them more efficient?
Someone once said, “Any idiot can tell the truth but it takes a genius to lie well.”
It is likely that Tala Halawa believes that the Holocaust did not exist. But if the Holocaust did not exist, then the Nazis must have been nice guys like the British and the Americans.
Hitler was right if he ever argued that 2 + 5 =7, or if he asserted blue mixed with yellow yields green, Neville Chamberlain was an empty suit, and the Grand Mufti, Haj Amin El-Husseini (Arafat’s uncle), would be a valuable ally to fight and massacre the Jews in Palestine.
I suspect that Tala Halawa is one of those hate-saturated Arabs who would have supported the efforts of Hitler and El-Husseini.
Oh, by the way, the IDF will go to Hell if Hamas hides there in one of those deep tunnels