Palestinian journalists issued an open letter urging their American colleagues to boycott the White House Correspondents’ Annual Gala

Live now - Guests are welcomed by shouts of “shame, shame on you” as they arrive to the dinner

#Gaza #StopGazaGenocide

Palestinian journalists are urging a boycott of the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner next week as an “act of solidarity” in response to the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

🚨 We've sent a crucial email to Committee to Protect Journalists, urging them to stand with Palestinian journalists by boycotting tomorrow's The White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Read the full statement and join in solidarity with Gaza journalists: pjs.ps/?p=2987
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USA 🇺🇸 The IFJ supports the call of the نقابة الصحفيين Palestinian Journalists Syndicate to boycott the White House Correspondents’ Dinner tonight. More than 100 journalists and media workers have been killed in the past six months of Israel’s war on Gaza, backed by the United States government.
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National Writers' Union (National Writers Union) joining forces with the نقابة الصحفيين Palestinian Journalists Syndicate to call for a boycott of the annual The White House Correspondents' Dinner, given US support of Israel, which is killing journalists in Gaza with impunity. IFJ #CeasefireNOW nwu.org/pjs-boycott/

Join the NUJ (online) on Friday 3 May, 13.00-14.00 to celebrate World Press Freedom Day 2024 🗞️

Speakers: Michelle Stanistreet NUJ general secretary, Nasser Abu Baker نقابة الصحفيين Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW, Behrang Tajdin. Book now: nuj.org.uk/learn/ems-even… #WorldPressFreedomDay

Israel today assassinated the eldest daughter of our Professor Refaat Al-Areer (Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸), Al-Shaimaa, along with her husband and newborn baby. I am out of words, tears, and ways to comprehend this endless loss, this pain, this criminal annihilation of our people.

🚨 We've sent a crucial email to Committee to Protect Journalists, urging them to stand with Palestinian journalists by boycotting tomorrow's The White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Read the full statement and join in solidarity with Gaza journalists: pjs.ps/?p=2987
Eng below AR

This validates the analysis that journalists and scholars were often targeted at home with families.
It speaks volumes on Israeli army's ruthless tactics; failure to recognize enabled the strategy to silence and control information.

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CPJ is extremely concerned about the disinformation and incitement campaigns targeting Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi. Israeli authorities remain responsible for ensuring the safety of Younis Tirawi and his family.

The targeted killing of journalists, if committed deliberately or recklessly, is a war crime.

CPJ has documented 95 journalists killed during the Israel-Gaza war, as of April 3.

CPJ has been calling for an investigation into the killing of Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah by…

6. Selected recommendations:
- Arms embargo on Israel & sanctions;
-Support South Africa's resort to UNSC under UN Charter art 94(2);
- investigation & prosecution;
- establishment of register of damage;
- reconstitute UN Spec Cttee agst Apartheid;
- protective presence in oPt.

4. “Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure.”

That's nearly 3x the humanitarian death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year. Until this last bombing, all of the killed aid workers were national Palestinians.

I have seen western peers discredit coverage from Gaza as biased. What a privileged stance.

Journos in #Gaza are not just reporting 'the story.' They are 'the story.' They have lost family, colleagues and their homes. They're live-streaming their survival and death in real time

The stark contrast in mainstream media coverage/framing compared to the killings of hundreds of aid workers over the last 6 months in Gaza by Israel tells its own story. Putting aside the biases still present in coverage of this incident, of course.
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The army's swift release of info on this incident?
No, it's not solely because of their nationalities – they'd still be alive if it were.
The Israeli army faces zero consequences for providing false information or failing to respond to Qs about incidents involving Palestinians.

#Palestine 🇵🇸: Israel airstrike on Al-Aqsa hospital in #Gaza injured six journalists, نقابة الصحفيين Palestinian Journalists Syndicate reported. We condemn Israeli authorities' refusal to allow journalists to leave Gaza for medical treatment abroad. Journalists should not be a target! bbc.com/news/world-mid…

There is no doubt in my mind that if western media covered Palestinians with the humanity afforded to Ukrainians, tens of thousands of lives would have been saved.

Palestine 🇵🇸 The IFJ joins its affiliate نقابة الصحفيين Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate) in strongly condemning the Israeli bombardment of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza yesterday, which has caused many victims. Seven journalists were injured and received support from نقابة الصحفيين Palestinian Journalists Syndicate