BBC contributor calls for Gazans to burn Jews ‘like Hitler did’

Gaza-based BBC contributor, who has been featured over a dozen times on the media outlet since October 7th, 2023, called for massacres of Jews in past social media posts, urging Arabs to emulate Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

By World Israel News Staff

A Gaza-based BBC Arabic contributor called for mass violence against Jews and appeared to laud German dictator Adolf Hitler in a series of social media posts which resurfaced over the weekend.

Samer Elzaenen, 33, has appeared on BBC Arabic over a dozen times since October 7th, 2023, according to a report published Saturday by The Telegraph, reporting from the scene of major events during the war including the daring IDF raid on Hamas safehouses in Nuseirat last June which led to the rescue of four Israeli hostages.

Saturday’s report revealed that Elzaenen has publicly endorsed violence against Jews for over a decade, using his social media presence to endorse mass killings and the emulation of the Nazi genocide of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.

In May 2011, Elzaenen vowed on Facebook that Palestinian Arabs would engage in a Nazi-like mass murder of Jews.

“My message to the Zionist Jews: We are going to take our land back, we love death for Allah’s sake the same way you love life. We shall burn you as Hitler did, but this time we won’t have a single one of you left.”

“When things go awry for us, shoot the Jews, it fixes everything,” Elzaenen wrote in July 2022 on his Facebook account.

Saturday’s report also documented Elzaenen’s use of the pro-Hamas hashtag “#We Are All Hamas You Son of a Jewess.”

From the 2010s to the 2020s, Elzaenen explicitly endorsed or lauded over 30 terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, calling the attacks “heroic” and praising the terrorists who committed them.

For example, after a February 2023 ramming attack in which an Arab terrorist killed two small children and a man in northern Jerusalem, Elzaenen said the terror victims “will soon go to hell.”

After the invasion of Israel on October 7th, 2023, and the subsequent massacres, Elzaenen lauded the invading terrorists as “resistance fighters.”

The report also found similar comments by a second BBC Arabic contributor, Ahmed Qannan, who expressed hope that Israelis wounded in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in 2023 would succumb to their wounds.

The BBC responded to Saturday’s report by distancing itself from the two contributors, emphasizing that neither were staff members of the outlet.

“International journalists including the BBC are not allowed access into Gaza so we hear from a range of eyewitness accounts from the strip,” the BBC said in a statement.

“These are not BBC members of staff or part of the BBC’s reporting team. We were not aware of the individuals’ social media activity prior to hearing from them on air. We are absolutely clear that there is no place for anti-Semitism on our services.”

Earlier this month, The Telegraph revealed that another BBC Arabic contributor from the Gaza Strip, Ahmed Alagha, had lauded the October 7th massacres of Israelis and called Jews “devils.”

“And as we know, the ‘Israelis’ are not human beings to begin with, rather they are not even beasts. Perhaps they belong to a race for which no description can capture the extent of their lust and sadism,” Alagha wrote elsewhere.

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