Antisemitic posts by Gazan reporter appearing on BBC Arabic emerge: ‘We shall burn you as Hitler did’

Antisemitic social media posts of a Gazan reporter who has consistently appeared on BBC Arabic have been uncovered, The Telegraph reports.

Samer Elzaenen, 33, has made several antisemitic comments, including a 2011 Facebook post reading: “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.”

In July 2022, he wrote: “When things go awry for us, shoot the Jews, it fixes everything.”

According to The Telegraph, Elzaenen has praised over 30 separate terror attacks against Israeli civilians, including a February 2023 car-ramming attack that killed two boys and a 20-year-old man in Jerusalem, saying the victims “will soon go to hell.”

He has described the October 7, 2023, massacre perpetrators as “resistance fighters.”

A BBC spokesperson tells The Telegraph that the news service uses “a range of eyewitness accounts from the Strip” since its journalists are not allowed to enter.

“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 antisemitism on our services.”

A journalist prominently featured by BBC Arabic has openly called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did.”

His name: Samer Elzaenen.

Here’s the horrifying reality the BBC doesn’t want to talk about…???? pic.twitter.com/hbN9by8Bnj

— Jonathan Sacerdoti (@jonsac) April 26, 2025