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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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Here's an exchange from an earlier comments thread:

That's spot-on. 

Anisa Subedar's BBC Trending article was headlined Muslim woman's cheeky selfie with anti-Islam group goes viral and reported the "friendly" social media response to "hijab-wearing Zakia Belkhiri" and her "cheeky selfies" in front of a "far-right anti-Islam group protesting outside an Islamic lifestyle event she was attending in Belgium". And, yes, Anisa's Twitter feed does indeed express the views described: 

And, yes, she is a 'freelance journalist' who seems (from her Twitter feed) to exercise her 'freelance journalism' entirely at the BBC:

...and yet who BBC Trending doesn't choose to describe as 'freelance', thus leading BBC Trending readers to assume that she's a 100% BBC reporter.

And now, according to Raheem Kassam at Breitbart London, it is claimed that cheeky "hijab-wearing Zakia Belkhiri" posted an anti-Semitic tweet in 2012 (now deleted) saying: 

Other allegations of anti-Semitic social media comments are also posted at Breitbart (though to add caution on top of caution, even RK is being unusually cautious about the claims).

Hopefully Anisa will be investigating/updating for BBC Trending. Is her heroine anti-Semitic or not?

...though it's not looking as if she's very keen to do so, unfortunately: