BBC Probes Reporter Who Compared Israel to Nazi Germany

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the UK’s national broadcaster, said it has launched an investigation over controversial statements made on social media by one of its reporters, who in a since-deleted tweet compared Israel to Nazi Germany and wrote, “Hitler was right.”

Digital journalist Tala Halawa, who works as a Palestine Specialist for the BBC Monitoring service, reportedly posted the comments on Twitter on July 20, 2014.