A senior BBC employee who wrote extreme antisemitic posts on a Facebook page was confirmed to have left BBC employment.

This comes after UKLFI drew the BBC’s attention in a letter last Thursday to extreme antisemitic posts on a Facebook page which appeared to be that of Dawn Queva, a senior scheduling co-ordinator and playout planner at BBC Three.

The Facebook page was run under the name of  Dawn Las Quevas-Allen, a similar name to the BBC’s then employee, Dawn Queva.

According to Dawn Queva’s LinkedIn profile, she had been in the BBC role since January 2023.  She   previously worked for A+E Networks, UKTV and Walt Disney across genres including children’s and adult programming.

After the news about her antisemitic posts was publicised, her LinkedIn page was removed and nearly all the content of the Facebook page was removed.

The same photograph that appeared in Dawn Queva’s LinkedIn profile had also appeared as one of the photos on the Dawn Las Quevas-Allen Facebook page.

The Facebook page called Jews “Nazi apartheid parasites”, “thieves”, and “satanists” and continually denied Ashkenazi Jews had any blood link to the land of Israel.

The posts made bizarre claims – calling the UK the UKKK and America AmeriKKKa.  White people were referred to as having subcontinental European melanin recessive CaucAsian [sic] skintone.  Jews were accused of wanting world domination.

A post on 16 January 2024, above a video of an Israeli Knesset member advocating for measures to enable the Israeli hostages to be released, stated: “That boiling hot vat of green excrement that the invader coloniser eastern subcontinental CaucAsian synagogue of Satan cabal calling themselves “JeWISH” has reserved for everyone else is the same vat of boiling excrement they will find themselves swimming in.”

The BBC responded to UKLFI the same day, 1 February 2022, saying:

“Thank you for sharing the information and I will ensure that this is passed onto the appropriate teams in the BBC. To reiterate, we don’t comment on individual members of staff and we have well-established and robust processes in place to handle such issues.”

Classic antisemitic tropes were deployed in the Facebook posts, which were grossly offensive and designed to stir up racial hatred.

Caroline Turner from UKLFI commented: “Racist conspiracy theories and crude antisemitic rants have no place within a broadcasting organisation.”

UKLFI has previously criticised the BBC for its biassed and inaccurate handling of its coverage of the Middle East and its failure to name Hamas as a terrorist organisation.