A BBC Arabic news anchor shared an article on his Twitter account defending David Miller, the controversial Bristol University professor who claims that Jewish students are “directed by the State of Israel” to pursue a “campaign of censorship”.
The article shared by BBC Arabic presenter Nour Eddine Zorgui was from the website Electronic Intifada. The presenter added the text: “Who are the Israel lobbyists that want David Miller fired?” to his tweet. The article claims that Miller has been the victim of a campaign led by the “usual-suspect anti-Palestinian activists and Israel lobbyists”.
In response to the JC, a BBC spokesperson said: “The tweets have been removed and our journalist reminded of the BBC social media guidelines”
The same presenter is alleged to have broken BBC guidelines twice previously. In 2019 he shared photos on Facebook showing himself working for the BBC in Western Jerusalem, captioned as being “in Palestine”. The BBC Academy’s guidance on Israel and the Palestinians says, “there is no independent state of Palestine today” so staff “should not affix the name ‘Palestine’ to Gaza or the West Bank”.
