Sunday, May 22, 2016

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For anyone who read yesterday's post about the Muslim selfie-taker at the 'far-right' rally in Belgium - and 'freelance' reporter Anisa Subedar's part in writing it for BBC Trending - you might be interested (and pleased) to learn that BBC Trending has now posted something about the claims of anti-Semitic social media comments from the Muslim selfie-taker. 

And the BBC Trending headline is pretty explicit too (no ifs, no buts):
Anti-Semitic statements of 'joy and peace' selfie star
"It's a story with a not so pleasant postscript", says the anonymous BBC Trending writer. (Anisa? Not Anisa? - Update: I see she's tweeted about it, so it may very well be her own piece.) 

The article mentions that BBC Trending reported the 'positive' take on the story and then says:
However, since then a series of deeply disturbing anti-Semitic statements made by Ms Belkhiri on social media have come to light.
And...
Trending has approached Ms Belkhiri again for comment but at time of writing has yet to receive a response. 
All credit to them for that. 

And all credit too to all the sites and tweeters who raised concerns about this and achieved this result.

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