Israel’s claims about its attacks on journalists have been debunked or disputed by international experts.
The pro-Israel group “HonestReporting Canada” (HRC) is regularly pressuring Canadian journalists to regurgitate Israel’s excuses for killing their Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
Over the past year, HRC has repeatedly quoted the Israeli military’s claims that it does not deliberately target journalists, and has suggested that “certain journalists” in Gaza are working as “terror operatives.”
In “alerts” published by HRC between November 2023 and October 2024, the pro-Israel group has quoted the Israeli military stating that it will “never deliberately target journalists,” and has dismissed arguments to the contrary as “simply false.”
“That journalists have been killed in Gaza covering the war between Hamas and Israel is not in dispute; what is in dispute is the contention that Israel is purposely targeting them, an accusation that Israel strenuously denies,” a HRC alert stated in December 2023.
In a March 4 alert targeting a Hill Times columnist, HRC conceded that “every innocent casualty is a tragedy,” before repeating claims that some journalists in Gaza “have ties to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations.” This claim, HRC said, means it is dishonest to portray such individuals as “uninvolved journalists or civilians.”
HRC also stated that “some of the ‘journalists’ in question are actually official Hamas propagandists, rather than objective reporters trying to nobly share the facts with the world.” (more...)
Pro-Israel Group Wants Media To Excuse Israel’s Killing Of Journalists
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