Senior BBC worker who called Jews an ‘invader species’ is finally sacked

Feb 5, 2024 by Jill

By Claire Duffin, Nicole Lampert And Meike Leonard For The Daily Mail:

Workers say it is a ‘grim’ and ‘frightening’ time to be Jewish at the corporation.

A senior BBC employee has been fired after sharing ‘horrific’ anti-Semitic social media posts.

It comes as workers say it is a ‘grim’ and ‘frightening’ time to be Jewish at the BBC.

Dawn Queva, a BBC scheduler, shared a string of hateful messages on Facebook.

She described the Holocaust as a ‘holohoax’, prompting calls for the BBC to take action.

The Daily Mail understands she was sacked on Friday.

In the messages, she refers to ‘AshkeNazis’, a slur that is a play on ‘Ashkenazi’ – Jews who descend from those who lived in central or eastern Europe.

One message claims the Ashkenazi Jews are ‘a bunch of subcontinental European melanin recessive CaucAsian japhetic AshkeNazi who have no None zero zilch blood connection to the land of Palestine or Israel historically’.

Another brands Jewish people an ‘invader coloniser species’. Ms Queva also allegedly described white people as ‘barbaric’ and ‘bloodthirsty’. In other posts, she referred to the UK as the ‘UKKK’ – a reference to the Ku Klux Klan.

Ms Queva, 55, a senior scheduler and playout planner for BBC Three, posted under the name Dawn Las Quevas-Allen. She previously worked in scheduling for A+E Networks, UKTV and Disney.

She doubled down on her remarks after they came to light, challenging her critics to ‘come at me… my shoulders are broad’. Last night, BBC staff told the Daily Mail the corporation needed to take a stand.

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