Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed worldwide in 2023 were Palestinians reporting on Israelās war on Gaza, making those 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Killings of reporters would have dropped globally year-on-year had it not been for the deaths in the ongoing war on Gaza, the CPJ said in its annual report released on Thursday.
āIn December 2023, CPJ reported that more journalists were killed in the first three months of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year,ā the organisation said.
In total, it documented 77 journalists killed in the war on Gaza last year while doing their jobs: 72 Palestinians, three Lebanese and two Israelis.
The Palestinian victims account for nearly 75 percent of all journalists killed worldwide.
āThis war is unprecedented in terms of the threat to journalists,ā Jodie Ginsberg, president of the CPJ, told Al Jazeera from New York.
āWhatās important to remember about this war is that Gazan journalists are the only journalists able to report on whatās happening inside Gaza. International journalists have not been able to get in, have not been allowed in, except on very, very controlled trips that are overseen by the Israeli army.
āSo we are entirely reliant on those [Palestinian] journalists, who are risking their lives to bring us this story,ā she added.
On February 7, the New York-based press freedom organisation said the number of journalists killed in the war on Gaza had risen to 85.
The CPJ has previously attacked what it calls the āpersecutionā of journalists by Israeli forces and is investigating whether a dozen journalists killed in the Gaza conflict were deliberately targeted by Israeli soldiers, which would constitute a war crime.
In the Palestinian territories, even when journalists are not on the job, they face the risk of Israeli bombardment or arrest. Gazaās Government Media Office said at least 126 Palestinian media workers have been killed since Israelās war began on October 7. ā
āItās very important that these killings are thoroughly investigated and that those responsible are held accountable,ā Ginsberg told Al Jazeera.
She said her organisation was doing the work to document attacks against journalists in Gaza, which could later be used as evidence and presented to bodies such as the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court.
The fact that Israel is evil doesnāt make Jews everywhere evil. That needs to be said.
But Israel under Netanyahu is evil as fuck. Itās genocide. Thatās the word for what theyāre doing. Genocide.
The only people bringing Jews into the conversation has been Israel.
Idk man, Jews have been targeted at least in Germanyā¦ i see media reporting over 2000 cases of attacks against Jews. The message by the OP deserves repeating since not everyone seems to have gotten the memo
Yeah, by police, for protesting genocide and Germany involvement in it.
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Israel are the ones who made being Jewish synonymous with being Israeli. So now if talk against Israel, youāre being antisemitic. If you disagree with their conduct, youāre being antisemitic. All theyāve done is muddy the waters so that criticism of their vile actions somehow means youāre denying the Holocaust. How many times has Netanyahu brought up 7th Oct as justification for the actions theyāve committed against Palestinians? "Why should we stop bombing Gaza? Do you not remember 7th Oct?ā
Are you replying to anything I said or is this a comment you would blindly paste as a reply to any comment?
Jews are increasingly being attacked in other countries since October 7th just for being Jewish. Clearly itās not just netanyahu who equates Israel with Jews. It doesnāt hurt to remind people that thereās a distinction since clearly not everyone gets it. Israel can be bad and Jews can be attacked - one doesnāt exclude the other
I understood their point to be that Netanyahu and his allies encourage the conflation of Jewishness with support for Israel, through their deliberate conflation of opposition to Israel with antisemitism. In so doing, they put Jews everywhere in more danger, but they accept this because it serves their political ends. Of course, this is far from the only source of antisemitism, but Netanyahu is cynically adding flames to the fire.
Absolutely, no arguments there. In my eyes this just makes repeating the distinction that Jew!=Israelite more important to both combat netanyahuās rhetoric and antisemitic rhetoric.
I really donāt believe the average person is able to make this distinction, and it indeed makes life for ordinary Jews in far-away countries more dangerous
At least in the US, itās not just Netanyahu thatās an issue. A lot of the mainstream media is making the same conflation.
Thatās why youāll see in articles like this one https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/nyregion/columbia-university-campus-protests.html which focus far more on students saying dumb shit at a protest and less on the ongoing genocide.
And you have to take what is being claimed as āantisemiticā with a huge grain of skepticism. Iāve seen claims that statements like āfree Palestineā and āfrom the rivers to the seasā are āantisemiticā.
This is problematic because even if you wanted to address antisemitism, focusing on people protesting a genocide is not the way to go. Instead, letās focus on the avowed Nazis parading around CPAC. Or maybe the Nazis in favor of Israelās genocide. Maybe we should wrestle with why antisemities are so often pro Israel.
I think it was because of Israeli actions in Palestine, not just because of their ethnicity.
Zionists are using Jews as human shields.
You can see my post history if you want to content yourself that I donāt just copy-paste responses. I like to tailor my answer depending on how much of an asshole the person Iām replying to is.
Someone else commented what my point was but Iāll make it clear myself. While Netanyahu believes itās favourable to classify all anything Jewish as being related to Israel, the inverse is what youāre seeing play out.
Attacking Israel means youāre attacking the Jewish faith therefore, attacking members of the Jewish faith means youāre attacking Israel. This isnāt a position I hold, this is the situation Israel has placed Jews around the world in as a result of muddying the waters. Israel is perfectly willing to manipulate the horror of the Holocaust to get allies to support their violence against Palestinians.
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under Netanyahuis evil as fuck.None of this is new; this is what the Nakba wouldāve looked like if Israel had modern weaponry.
I know it needs to be said (because if you donāt, the conversation will get derailed), but does it really need to be said? I feel like this rule only applies in this situation.
When else does this need to be said in order to not be considered a racist or terrorist?
It should be self-evident, and itās fucking frustrating that decades of equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism has worked this well.
The thing is it does need to be said. And it needs to be said about Hamas and Palestinians. And it needed to be said about the Taliban and Afghans, Hussain and the Iraqi people, ISIS and Muslims.
At least in America, lots of people need reminding.