A BBC journalist has been reported by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) to the BBC’s management regarding her social media.

Soha Ibrahim is a Senior journalist for BBC Digital Daily Output, according to her LinkedIn profile. We understand that Ms Ibrahim has worked for the BBC for 12 years.

UKLFI has written to Tim Davie, Director General of the BBC, to complain about Ms Ibrahim’s apparent support for the actions of Hamas and her anti-Israel messages.

As David Collier has pointed out in his investigative blog, Ms Ibrahim contributed to a BBC news story which made serious allegations against the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). There was no acknowledgment in the BBC reporting of this story of the problematic social media of this contributor.

On 7 October 2023 Ms Ibrahim “liked” videos of people in Lebanon and Tunisia chanting, dancing and waving Palestinian flags in the streets in apparent celebration of the atrocities committed by Hamas.  On the same day she liked another post which celebrated “the first of the martyrs of the operation”. The post featured a picture of an Egyptian man who was killed after he murdered three Israeli soldiers in June 2023.  She also praised “Miracles” and “God’s mercy” on 7 October, again apparently in celebration of the Hamas atrocities.

In May 2023 she “liked” the graduation speech of Fatima Mohammed at CUNY which called to “fight against… Zionism around the world”.

In 2021 in response to Mike Pence’s tweet in support of Israel, Ms Ibrahim liked a post stating “Well give them a piece of your land, then? Oh I forgot, that land – is not yours either”.

In the same year, when someone termed Israel as the “only democracy in the Middle East” she liked a post calling Israelis “criminals and psychopaths”.

According to the BBC’s social media guidelines, “Everyone who works for the BBC should ensure their activity on social media platforms does not compromise the perception of or undermine the impartiality and reputation of the BBC, nor their own professional impartiality or reputation and/or otherwise undermine trust in the BBC.”

It appears that Ms Ibrahim has compromised the perception of impartiality and the reputation of the BBC.  We have requested that the BBC investigate this journalist.