In a damning expose, two Gaza-based contributors to BBC Arabic have been revealed as open supporters of terrorism and violent antisemitism — even as they continued to appear on one of the world’s most prominent news platforms. The Telegraph reported that Samer Elzaenen, a 33-year-old journalist who has appeared repeatedly on BBC Arabic since the Israel-Hamas war began, has for years flooded social media with grotesque calls for Jewish blood. In one post, he vowed, “We’ll burn Jews like Hitler did.” In another, he instructed followers, “When things go awry for us, shoot the Jews, it fixes everything.” His posts are not isolated incidents. They represent over a decade of documented hatred, during which Elzaenen has praised more than 30 terror attacks targeting Israeli civilians as “blessed” acts and hailed the murderers as “heroes” and “martyrs.” After a horrific car-ramming attack in Jerusalem last year that killed two young children and a 20-year-old avreich, Elzaenen chillingly wrote that the innocent victims “will soon go to hell.” Following Hamas’s barbaric massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7, he saluted the terrorists as “resistance fighters.” And he is not alone. Ahmed Qannan — another regular BBC Arabic voice — similarly celebrated attacks on Jews. After a 2023 mass shooting at a shul in Yerushalayim that left seven civilians dead, Qannan said he hoped the wounded would die. When a friend fantasized about “cutting throats,” Qannan encouraged him: “Don’t give up on your ambition.” Qannan also praised a terrorist who murdered four civilians and a police officer in Bnei Brak, calling him a “hero.” This scandal follows a string of previous incidents involving BBC Arabic, including the exposure last year of BBC correspondent Ahmed Alagha, who publicly described Jews as “devils” and Israelis as “less than human.” Despite the BBC’s insistence that these figures are “only freelancers” and not formal staff members, watchdogs and critics are demanding accountability, accusing the BBC of laundering hate-filled propaganda under the guise of journalism. “The BBC knowingly turns a blind eye,” charged a spokesperson for CAMERA UK. “It hides behind the fig leaf of ‘freelance contributors’ so it doesn’t have to answer for the open Jew-hatred it platformed. This is not journalism — it is complicity.” The revelations have ignited a firestorm in Britain. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, citing a report detailing systemic bias and antisemitism at BBC Arabic, called for “wholesale reform” of the broadcaster’s Arabic-language service. In a searing letter to BBC Director-General Tim Davie, Badenoch wrote: “It appears that the BBC World Service may be fomenting extremism and misleading audiences — all funded by taxpayers and license fees. This is simply unacceptable and must stop.” The BBC, while insisting it was “unaware” of the social media activity at the time the contributors were aired, has refused to commit to sweeping changes. In a limp statement, the network reiterated that “there is no place for antisemitism” on its platforms — even as the evidence mounts that its Arabic division has been riddled with exactly that. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)