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May 27, 2021

The Blindspot That Led the BBC to Hire a Hitler-Praising Journalist to Cover the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

The case of Tala Halawa.

Playing a leading role in the BBC’s coverage of recent events in Israel has been the “Palestine specialist” Tala Halawa, who, it turns out, has made such statements on social media as “ur media is controlled by ur zionist government,” “Zionists can’t get enough of our blood,” and—lest we mistake her anti-Semitism for mere hostility toward Israel—“Hitler was right.” Stephen Daisley observes:

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