Thursday, October 24, 2024

Journalists Urged To Report Threats Received After Pro-Israel Campaigns

 

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“I don’t call it ‘HonestReporting.’ I call it dishonest reporting.”

Canadian journalists who have received online threats after being targeted by a pro-Israel group are being encouraged to report any such threats to a press freedom monitoring project.

The Canada Press Freedom Project (CPFP), which is run by the publication J-Source, regularly gathers and publishes data about incidents of online threats and other press freedom violations experienced by media workers. 

Last week, J-Source published a call on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) explicitly encouraging journalists who have received online threats after being targeted by HonestReporting Canada (HRC), a pro-Israel group that brands itself as a “grass-roots” media watchdog, to get in touch via CPFP’s online form.

An article published by La Converse this week shared several accounts from journalists who have been targeted by HRC, often via mass email campaigns that contain what one reporter described as “unfounded” requests for edits to stories.

One reporter, Imam Kassam, told La Converse that after she was targeted by HRC in 2021, she received several weeks of what she considers to be “online harassment” — but was offered no support from her employer.  (more...)

Journalists Urged To Report Threats Received After Pro-Israel Campaigns


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