Quarterly Review magazine editor Dr. Leslie Jones is under fire for a reported antisemitic comment he made to a journalist. Photo: Quarterly Review website.

A BBC journalist mistakenly identified as a Jew was told at a recent high-end London event to “get back in the oven,” the Daily Mail reported over the weekend.

According to the report, journalist Henrietta Foster became the target of an antisemitic tirade by Dr. Leslie Jones, the editor of the Quarterly Review magazine. Jones was said to be upset by Foster’s appearance in a documentary about the children of Nazi war criminals.

Foster told the Daily Mail of the unpleasant encounter with Jones:

We had fallen out at a previous reception over Brexit — I told him to **** off because he had voted out. Then he came over to me last Thursday and said, “You were in that film, weren’t you?” and told me I was cruel in my filmed question to the son of a Nazi officer.

Then he just said: “Get back in the oven. Do you understand me? Just get back in the oven.”

The comments were overheard by Martin Bright, a former Observer journalist and adviser to ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Daily Mail report said Bright and another guest at the event reproached Jones over the comments, in response to which he claimed he had been joking.

In a statement published on the Quarterly Review website on Sunday, Jones said, “I will refute in detail the politically motivated accusations made against me in the Mail…on my return.”

Bright told the Daily Mail, “Something has happened over the past months in this country to give a license to the open expression of antisemitic views.”

Recently, as reported by The Algemeiner, Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth was assigned police protection, following an antisemitic death threat made against her on a social-media platform.

At the time, Smeeth told the UK’s Sun newspaper she held Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn “personally responsible” for the threats she had received. Earlier this summer, as reported in The Algemeiner, Smeeth said she was “verbally attacked” by an activist linked to the left-wing organization Momentum — which supports Corbyn — during the conference revealing the results of Labour’s investigation into antisemitism allegations within the party.