The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the UK’s national broadcaster, said it has launched an investigation over controversial statements made on social media by one of its reporters, who in a since-deleted tweet compared Israel to Nazi Germany and wrote, “Hitler was right.” Digital journalist Tala Halawa, who works as a Palestine Specialist for the BBC Monitoring service, reportedly posted the comments on Twitter on July 20, 2014. “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler! Oh, #HitlerWasRight – IDF go to hell #PrayForGaza,” Halawa wrote, according to the Honest Reporting Twitter media monitoring group. Halawa’s post came about three years prior to her joining the BBC in 2017. In a statement to British news outlet The Telegraph, the BBC said: “These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC but we are nevertheless taking this very seriously and are investigating.” The Epoch Times was unable to reach Halawa for comment, while her …