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BBC 'pays £400,000' to Oscar-winning Jewish filmmaker who says anti-Semitic colleagues bullied her out of the broadcaster

Lucie Kon, who worked on Panorama and BBC Breakfast, has reportedly received a £400,000 BBC settlement after claiming colleagues branded Zionists like her "evil" following the October 7 Hamas attacks.
Lucie Kon, who worked on Panorama and BBC Breakfast, has reportedly received a £400,000 BBC settlement after claiming colleagues branded Zionists like her "evil" following the October 7 Hamas attacks.

Lucie Kon, 57, says that after the October 7 attacks, BBC colleagues branded Zionists like her 'evil' and urged her to consider 'what drove Hamas'. When she complained, she says she was sent home for months, sidelined and finally made redundant. The reportedly £400,000 licence-fee-backed settlement came after she launched unfair dismissal proceedings. The BBC admitted no liability, and an internal inquiry rejected her complaints.

Kon says the hostility after October 7 felt 'like having Jew stamped on my forehead'.

She says she was barred from overseeing an October 7 documentary as 'too partial'.

She lost her job just 19 days after attending the Oscars for an Academy Award-winning documentary.

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