Co-conspirators will no doubt remember Tala Halawa, the then-BBC Palestinian specialist who in May was unearthed as having tweeted “#HitlerWasRight”. At the time she deleted her account…
She’s now come back online to slam the BBC over her subsequent dismissal at the “whim of a pro-Israel mob” – no longer bothering to hide her rampant prejudice – and attacking “right-wing media outlets determined to eliminate Palestinians from public life.” Tala is still in denial about the real reason she was fired…
Tala accuses the BBC of a “trial with social media, amplifying troll voices and capitulating to pressure from external pro-Israel interest groups.” Reflecting on the statement Guido can’t imagine the BBC will have any regrets about letting this activist go…
Read Tala’s statement in full below:
Usually our series of articles highlighting “expert activists“ exposes interview guests posing as neutral experts whilst hiding their partisan political agenda. In the case of Tala Halawa, we’re focusing on a BBC journalist who for three years has been reporting on Palestine. She previously stated that she saw her mission as highlighting the “Palestinian case”. Presumably that is why she was hired by the impartial BBC.
The BBC may be regretting hiring her after old tweets were discovered that give an inkling of her thinking. The BBC are keen to emphasise they are taking this “extremely seriously”, weakly pointing out she was not a BBC journalist in 2014 when she tweeted this particular post. She has now deleted her account…
