Senior BBC employee calls Jews ‘parasites’ on social media
Dawn Queva, who has worked in children's programming, promotes antisemitic and anti-Israel tropes and calls Jews genocidal parasites and thieves
A senior BBC employee is using her social media platforms to promote unhinged antisemitism.
Dawn Queva, a content producer for BBC3, who uses the name ‘Dawn Las Quevas-Allen’ on Facebook, makes bizarre references to the “subcontinental melanin recessive European CaucAsian invader so called “Jew” and displays a “Facebook Jail Veteran” badge in reference to the number of times she has been restricted by the platform for hate speech, bullying and harassment.
Despite recent reports in trade publication Deadline that Queva was facing disciplinary action, as recently as this morning she continued her hateful posts, writing: “Come at me by all means, my shoulders are broad”, above another vicious post featuring a video claiming “Jews are a nasty people.”
She also refers to “Zionist Japhetic AshkeNazi squatters” and in another particularly abhorrent rant, posts about “That boiling hot vat of green excrement that the invader coloniser eastern subcontinent CaucAsian synagogue of Satan cabal calling themselves Jewish….”
She writes that: “It’s not the land of the AshkeNazi, that is the German Rhineland. It is the land that belongs to the Palestinians” and says Jews are “Genocidal parasites and thieves!”.
She reposts a video claiming that Jeffrey Epstein’s client list is “nothing new” and that Israel has always been “a professional at the military use of sex and lust.”
Queva has previously worked for A+E Networks, UKTV and Walt Disney across genres including children’s and adult programming.
A spokesperson from the BBC refused to directly address Queva’s postings, telling Jewish News: “We don’t comment on individual members of staff and we have well-established and robust processes in place to handle such issues, we do not tolerate antisemitism, Islamophobia, or any form of abuse and we take any such allegations seriously and take appropriate disciplinary action wherever necessary.”
A CST spokesperson told Jewish News: “These comments are appallingly antisemitic with no ambiguity and the BBC need to urgently investigate and act.”
Jewish News has approached Dawn Queva and her BBC line manager for comment.
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