An Oscar-winning enforcement shaper claims she received a £400,000 payout from the BBC aft alleging she faced antisemitic remarks from colleagues astatine the corporation.
Lucie Kon, who worked arsenic a commissioning exertion overseeing respective documentaries, including Mr Nobody Against Putin, told The Telegraph, external that BBC colleagues said Zionists similar her were "evil" pursuing the 7 October attacks.
Kon's station was made redundant arsenic portion of a BBC restructure. She says the outgo she received was for redundancy backmost wage and colony for idiosyncratic wounded caused by the process.
The BBC says it did not uphold immoderate of the allegations of antisemitism but accepted determination were "shortcomings" successful however it treated Kon, which had a "personal impact" connected her.
The corp did not specify what the shortcomings were.
Kon says she raised a fig of concerns astir however she was treated pursuing the Hamas-led 7 October attacks.
"I became a problem," she told BBC News.
"I truly did consciousness similar I had Jew stamped connected my forehead. I became a problem. And anytime I tried to notation anything, it was like, 'Oh God, determination she goes again.'
"I became a due pain. They didn't cognize what other to bash with me."
Kon besides claimed she was told by a workfellow that "if you privation to telephone Hamas terrorists past you person to telephone Israel terrorists, too".
She helped pb a radical representing Jewish unit successful the corp and raised issues with the then-director general, Tim Davie.
Kon told The Telegraph that her religion had not been an contented during her galore years moving for the BBC until the October 7 attacks.
She aboriginal told LBC that the BBC was "not institutionally antisemitic".
The BBC said it was grateful that Kon acknowledged the BBC is not institutionally antisemitic, adding that she was a "valued subordinate of unit with galore years of dedicated service" to the corporation.
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