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    While it is technically true that you can criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic, that's seeming to be more and more like arguing for the general right to abortion because of rape/incest pregnancies exist in very rare cases.

    Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-journalist-twitter-israel-nazi-b1852684.html

    BBC investigating journalist who tweeted ‘Hitler was right’

    The BBC has launched an investigation into the social media activity of one of its journalists, who was found to have compared Israel to Nazi Germany.

    The public broadcaster said it was looking into tweets posted by Palestinian affairs specialist Tala Halawa before she began working for the corporation.

    One of Ms Halawa’s tweets from 2014, unearthed by the Honest Reporting media monitoring group, said “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler” – before adding: “Hitler was right.”

    The Honest Reporting group highlighted a series of tweets from the journalist during the 2014 Gaza conflict, including posts which stated: “Zionists can’t get enough of our blood” and “stupid Zionists”.

    Ms Halawa also responded to an Israel-based Twitter user, who had disputed Palestinian casualty figures, by saying: “ur media is produced by ur zionist government in order 2 produce ignorant people.”

    The journalist is now working as a Palestinian affairs specialist for BBC Monitoring – part of the BBC’s World Service output – and has been covering the recent conflict in Gaza.

    A BBC spokesperson said: “These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC, but we are nevertheless taking this very seriously and are investigating.”

    It follows the recent sacking of a reporter by the Associated Press for violating the company’s social media policy over Palestine-related tweets.

    Emily Wilder, 22, claimed her termination was part of a broader pattern of censorship against pro-Palestine reporters.

    “I am one victim to the asymmetrical enforcement of rules around objectivity and social media that has censored so many journalists – particularly Palestinian journalists and other journalists of colour – before me,” she said.

    Meanwhile, the BBC continues to come under pressure over Lord Dyson’s report into the Martin Bashir scandal, which lambasted the BBC for its “woefully ineffective” investigation into the 1995 interview.

    Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has accused the BBC of adopting a “we know best” attitude in the saga surrounding its Panorama interview with Princess Diana.

    Mr Dowden said on Monday that the affair had exposed “failures that strike at the heart of our national broadcaster’s values” and that “cultural change” was needed in the organisation.

    Writing in The Times, he said far-reaching change was needed to ensure the corporation was in tune with “all parts of the nation it serves” – but also said ministers would not push for “knee-jerk reforms”.

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  • #2
    Originally posted by CivilDiscourse View Post



    Emily Wilder, 22, claimed her termination was part of a broader pattern of censorship against pro-Palestine reporters.
    If you were a real journalist then people wouldn't be able to tell where your sympathies lie.


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    • #3
      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
      If you were a real journalist then people wouldn't be able to tell where your sympathies lie.
      In the case of Emily Wilder (who is Jewish, one should note), her 'sympathies' were pretty much from her time in college, not her particular journalism (if one looks at her pieces before she joined AP, as well as the couple weeks after joining, there's no particular 'sympathies' visible).

      She was fired after a concerted right wing mob started a cancel crusade (yeah, cancel culture is apparently fine if it's for people you don't like or who happen to have supported someone other than Mommy Israel in the past) after they found out she was pro-palestinian while in college.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post

        In the case of Emily Wilder (who is Jewish, one should note), her 'sympathies' were pretty much from her time in college, not her particular journalism (if one looks at her pieces before she joined AP, as well as the couple weeks after joining, there's no particular 'sympathies' visible).

        She was fired after a concerted right wing mob started a cancel crusade (yeah, cancel culture is apparently fine if it's for people you don't like or who happen to have supported someone other than Mommy Israel in the past) after they found out she was pro-palestinian while in college.
        Out of curiosity, do you think that "reporters" who say things like "Hitler was right" should be assigned to covering Israel?

        I'm always still in trouble again

        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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        • #5
          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
          Out of curiosity, do you think that "reporters" who say things like "Hitler was right" should be assigned to covering Israel?
          No. But Emily Wilder said no such thing. Not even remotely. Tala Halawa did.

          Emily Wilder supported Palestinian relief efforts and Palestinian rights while in college, and did a teaching assistant job for a summer program that worked with Palestinian high school students. And RW loons used cancel culture to get her fired.

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