Zahraa Al-Akhrass delivered the NB Media Co-op’s 15th annual keynote address
A Palestinian-Canadian journalist is speaking up about how the Canadian news media has failed in its coverage of Israel’s genocide in Palestine.
Zahraa Al-Akhrass was fired from Global News on Oct. 17, 2023, after three years on the job. She says her social media posts on Palestine caused her termination.
Al-Akhrass shared the story of her firing at the NB Media Co-op’s 15th annual keynote address on September 26...
Al-Akhrass started her talk by sharing footage of her family’s ancestral village in historical Palestine.
During her talk, held virtually via Zoom, she said her ancestors were “forced to leave their homeland” during the Nakba in 1948. That’s when the Palestinian village of Umm Al-Shaqaf, once home to 800 people, was completely destroyed.
Now located in Israeli territory near Haifa, Umm Al-Shaqaf is little more than a pile of rubble, a historical landmark, and a tourist attraction.
Al-Akhrass expressed shock about how her family was violently uprooted. She scrolled through images on Google Maps showing tourists posing for photos in the ruins.
“This was probably a house of somebody, a relative of mine, maybe my own family, my own grandfather,” she said. (more...)
‘If I’m staying silent, I’m being complicit,’ says fired Palestinian-Canadian journalist
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