BBC Arabic Channel journalists ‘taken off air’

Jewish News understands that journalists working for the BBC Arabic service have been ‘taken off air’ pending an investigation.

As reported by Jewish News, six reporters and a freelancer – including a senior broadcast journalist – are accused of anti-Israel bias, backing Hamas over attacks on Israel with one describing them as “a morning of hope”.

The claims centre on messages posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, including the liking of a video of bodies and kidnapped people loaded onto a Jeep captioned as a “proud moment” and another saying Zionists “will live as a thief and a usurper”.

A BBC spokesman said: “We are urgently investigating this matter. We take allegations of breaches of our editorial and social media guidelines with the utmost seriousness, and if and when we find breaches we will act, including taking disciplinary action.”