Toyota has completed its internal investigation into a senior employee accused of directing antisemitic abuse at a BBC journalist – but has refused to say whether the complaint was upheld, Jewish News can reveal.
The mobility subsidiary Woven by Toyota, where senior designer Piotr Klarowski was employed, informed BBC Middle East Editor Raffi Berg this week that the company’s internal review had “been conducted” – more than three weeks after he formally raised concerns about a string of abusive social media posts.
However, Woven declined to share the findings or confirm whether any action was taken.
Raffi Berg, BBC’s Middle East Editor. Photo Credit: Jewish Book Council
In a statement to Jewish News, Berg said: “It is disappointing that Woven have been unwilling to let me know whether the complaint that a senior employee has engaged in antisemitic abuse against me has been upheld or not. I have been left in the dark.”
Berg had submitted evidence showing at least 11 separate tweets targeting him by name from Klarowski’s account. The posts – now deleted – referred to him as a “vile Zionist Jew”, a “little rat”, and a “filthy Jew”, while accusing him of supporting genocide and dragging the BBC into “state propaganda”.
In one post, Klarowski allegedly asked whether Berg had been “finally sacked”. Others described Israeli Jews as “subhuman creatures” and claimed that calling them rats or pigs would be “offensive to those animals”.
As previously reported by Jewish News, Klarowski’s accounts were linked to a now-deleted LinkedIn profile identifying him as a senior product experience designer at Woven by Toyota, a Tokyo-based subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Public records show he previously held design roles at ITV and Samsung.
Screenshots show he maintained multiple X accounts, some of which promoted anti-Israeli and antisemitic rhetoric and called for Israel’s destruction.
A Toyota spokesperson previously told The Telegraph that an internal investigation had been carried out and “appropriate action was taken” but did not clarify what that entailed. Toyota said it could not comment on individual cases due to privacy restrictions.
Jewish News has again contacted Toyota for further comment. Klarowski could not be reached.
