
Oscar-winning producer says BBC gave her £400,000 payout after she raised antisemitism concerns
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An Oscar-winning executive producer claims she received a £400,000 payout from the BBC after alleging she faced antisemitic remarks from colleagues at the corporation.
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Lucie Kon, who worked as a commissioning editor overseeing several documentaries, including Mr Nobody Against Putin, told The Telegraph, external that BBC colleagues said Zionists like her were "evil" following the 7 October attacks.
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Kon's post was made redundant as part of a BBC restructure. She says the payment she received was for redundancy back pay and settlement for personal injury caused by the process.
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The BBC says it did not uphold any of the allegations of antisemitism but accepted there were "shortcomings" in how it treated Kon, which had a "personal impact" on her.
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The corporation did not specify what the shortcomings were.
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Kon says she raised a number of concerns about how she was treated following the Hamas-led 7 October attacks.
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"I became a problem," she told BBC News.
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"I really did feel like I had Jew stamped on my forehead. I became a problem. And anytime I tried to mention anything, it was like, 'Oh God, there she goes again.' "I became a proper pain.
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They didn't know what else to do with me." Kon also claimed she was told by a colleague that "if you want to call Hamas terrorists then you have to call Israel terrorists, too".
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She helped lead a group representing Jewish staff in the corporation and raised issues with the then-director general, Tim Davie.
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Kon told The Telegraph that her religion had not been an issue during her many years working for the BBC until the October 7 attacks.
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She later told LBC that the BBC was "not institutionally antisemitic".
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The BBC said it was grateful that Kon acknowledged the BBC is not institutionally antisemitic, adding that she was a "valued member of staff with many years of dedicated service" to the corporation.
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