Tala Halawa

Tala Halawa is a Palestinian journalist based in Ramallah and a former BBC News reporter. She was dismissed from the organization after a series of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments.
Career
Tala Halawa began her work at BBC News and BBC Monitoring as a digital journalist and Palestinian affairs specialist in 2017. She published several reports about the Israel-Palestine conflicts during her times in BBC.
Controversy
In May 2021, Tala Halawa was found that she had posted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic tweets in the midst of the 2014 Gaza war. In one tweet from July 2014, Halawa wrote: "#Israel is more #Nazi than #Hitler! Oh, #HitlerWasRight #IDF go to hell. #PrayForGaza." and in another tweet, shared by pro-Israel media HonestReporting, Halawa wrote: "Zionists can't get enough of our blood." As Halawa was reporting on the 2021 Israeli-Palestinian Crisis, doubts about her credibility as a neutral and objective reporter were raised. The BBC then launched an investigation into her social media activity. A BBC spokesperson stated that these tweets were "very seriously”.
Her statement, blaming her dismissal on "pro-Israel groups," has been seen by many as a deflection and excuse, rather than an apology. Media analyst Emanuel Miller responded to Halawa that she downplayed her own antisemitism and portraying herself as the victim instead.

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