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BBC journalist who tweeted ‘Hitler was right’ loses her job
An investigation was launched into Tala Halawa, a Palestine Specialist for BBC Monitoring, over 2014 messages including one which suggested “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler”
The BBC journalist who tweeted “Hitler was right” has left her job at the corporation.
An investigation was launched into Tala Halawa, a Palestine Specialist for BBC Monitoring, over messages posted in 2014 including one which suggested “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler”.
The watchdog group Honest Reporting uncovered the tweets posted by Halawa prior to her starting work at the BBC.
She is based in the West Bank city of Ramallah and was part of the reporting team which covered the recent fighting between Israel and Hamas and the reactions to the conflict.
But following an investigation a senior corporation source said:”“This individual no longer works for the BBC.”
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