Reports say, a senior BBC employee has been relieved of her job after sharing ‘horrific’ anti-Semitic social media messages online.
It was learnt that, Dawn Queva, a BBC scheduler, shared a string of hateful messages on Facebook.
According to media sources, the BBC scheduler who also described the Holocaust as a ‘holohoax’, stirring calls for the BBC to take action, was fired from her job on Friday 2 February 2024.
It was gathered that in the messages, she referred to ‘AshkeNazis’, a slur that is a play on ‘Ashkenazi’ – Jews who descend from those who lived in central or Eastern Europe.
Another message claimed that the Ashkenazi Jews are ‘a bunch of subcontinental European melanin recessive CaucAsian japhetic AshkeNazi who have no None zero zilch blood connection to the land of Palestine or history of Israel.
Meanwhile, in another post tagged Jewish people an ‘invader colonizer species’, Ms Queva also allegedly described white people as ‘barbaric’ and ‘bloodthirsty’. In other posts, she referred to the UK as the ‘UKKK’ – a cryptic insinuation said to have been referring to the Ku Klux Klan.
The 55-year-old senior scheduler and playout planner for BBC Three, who has just been sacked, had previously worked in scheduling for A+E Networks, UKTV, and Disney.
She doubled down on her remarks after they came to light, daring her critics to, ‘come at me… my shoulders are broad’.
Sources say that the corporation needed to take a stand.
Speaking separately, Jewish workers told the media; “Jewish colleagues are finding it really tough seeing everyone but our bosses condemning what we have seen.
“If the BBC is serious about standing up to anti-Semitism then it needs to practice what it keeps preaching and stand up to the hate crimes committed by one of its own staff.
“The BBC needs to take a lead on this and make it clear that racism is racism and it won’t be tolerated.
