- Dawn Queva, 55, described the Holocaust as a ‘holohoax’ in anti-semitic posts
A senior BBC worker has been fired after sharing ‘horrific’ anti-Semitic social media posts.
It comes as staff say it’s a ‘grim’ and ‘scary’ time to be Jewish on the BBC.
Dawn Queva, a BBC scheduler, shared a string of hateful messages on Facebook.
She described the Holocaust as a ‘holohoax’, prompting requires the BBC to take motion.
The Daily Mail understands she was sacked on Friday.
Dawn Queva, a BBC scheduler, has been fired after sharing ‘horrific’ anti-Semitic social media posts
Ms Queva, 55, described the Holocaust as a ‘holohoax’, prompting requires the BBC to take motion
Ms Queva posted below the identify Dawn Las Quevas-Allen. She beforehand labored in scheduling for A+E Networks, UKTV and Disney
One put up by Dawn Queva claimed that ‘being JewISH has zero to do with ethnicity’ and advised Jews had been from the ‘Synagogue of Satan’
In the messages, she refers to ‘AshkeNazis’, a slur that could be a play on ‘Ashkenazi’ – Jews who descend from those that lived in central or japanese Europe.
One message claims the Ashkenazi Jews are ‘a bunch of subcontinental European melanin recessive CaucAsian japhetic AshkeNazi who haven’t any None zero zilch blood connection to the land of Palestine or Israel traditionally’.
Another manufacturers Jewish individuals an ‘invader coloniser species’. Ms Queva additionally allegedly described white individuals as ‘barbaric’ and ‘bloodthirsty’. In different posts, she referred to the UK because the ‘UKKK’ – a reference to the Ku Klux Klan.
Ms Queva, 55, a senior scheduler and playout planner for BBC Three, posted below the identify Dawn Las Quevas-Allen. She beforehand labored in scheduling for A+E Networks, UKTV and Disney.
She doubled down on her remarks after they got here to gentle, difficult her critics to ‘come at me… my shoulders are broad’. Last night time, BBC employees informed the Daily Mail the company wanted to take a stand.
A Jewish employee stated: ‘Jewish colleagues are discovering it actually robust seeing everybody however our bosses condemning what we now have seen.’
They added: ‘If the BBC is severe about standing as much as anti-Semitism then it must practise what it retains preaching and stand as much as the hate crimes dedicated by certainly one of its personal employees.’
Broadcaster, Mail columnist and former BBC presenter Andrew Neil stated ex-colleagues had informed him it was ‘grim’ and ‘scary’ to be Jewish on the BBC in the meanwhile
Several Jewish members of BBC employees defied a ban on attending a march towards anti-Semitism
Another put up featured University of Chicago political scientist Prof John Mearsheimer suggesting Hamas’s terror assaults on Israel final October 7 included some deaths brought on by the IDF
Dawn Queva continued sharing anti-Israel movies together with one evaluating the nation’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion with Adolf Hitler
The BBC Three govt additionally shared a video suggesting Israel needed a mosque to ‘collapse’
A second Jewish employee added: ‘The BBC must take a lead on this and make it clear that racism is racism and it will not be tolerated.’
Broadcaster, Mail columnist and former BBC presenter Andrew Neil stated ex-colleagues had informed him it was ‘grim’ and ‘scary’ to be Jewish on the BBC in the meanwhile. He wrote on X: ‘Where’s the director normal and his military of BBC executives paid massive salaries to get a grip of issues like this?’
A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism stated: ‘These posts are completely horrific. Racist conspiracy theories and Holocaust-denial haven’t any place at our public broadcaster, however what’s turning into more and more tiresome is us having to level this out. Barely per week goes by now with out some determine on the BBC publishing some inflammatory comment regarding Jews.
‘Something is very rotten on the BBC.
‘We are submitting complaints with the BBC about this particular person and reporting the posts to the police, however the time has come for the BBC step up and confront anti-Semitism in its organisation as soon as and for all.’
Ms Queva, who lives in south-east London, declined to remark final night time.
A BBC spokesman stated: ‘The particular person involved is not employed by the BBC.’