Genocide is not a matter of opinion: 300+ writers, scholars & public figures refuse to write for the New York Times Opinion section in a collective effort to hold the paper accountable for its role in the genocide in Gaza.

“Language makes genocide justifiable. A reason why we are still being bombed after 243 days is because of The New York Times and most Western media,” the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat wrote months before Israel assassinated him. As Palestinians in Gaza return to their homes and take stock of the destruction Israel has wrought with two years of air strikes, massacres, and starvation, it is our responsibility in the West to hold complicit institutions to account for these crimes. As much as any weapons manufacturer, the media is part of the machinery of war, producing the impunity and bigotry that enables and sustains it... READ THE STATEMENT IN FULL https://www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boycott

AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES & QUOTES IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine, or at least fair and just laws and policies]  

Mohammed El-Kurd

@m7mdkurd

 

300+ writers, scholars and public figures – including almost 150 past New York Times contributors – have committed to refusing to write for the paper’s Opinion section until the paper 

 

1) addresses it's anti-Palestinian bias, 

 

2) retracts the widely debunked investigation “Screams Without Words.” and 

 

3) and calls for a U.S. arms embargo of Israel. 

 

The Opinion section is where the paper creates plausible deniability for its anti-Arab racism and its complicity in genocide. 

 

And while they treat the lies of the Israeli government as fact in their News section, they render the genocide debatable and relegate it to the Opinion page. But the section is nothing without the freelance contributors who write for it--and they are choosing integrity over prestige. 

 

Writers Against the War on Gaza

@wawog_now

Replying t@wawog_now

The @nytimes uses its Opinion pages to whitewash its news coverage, often inviting contributions which “contrast with or challenge those of our newsroom and our own Opinion columnists and editorials.”. But the section is nothing without the freelance contributors who write for it.

 

susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى

@susanabulhawa

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Oct 24

Hamas wants international media to bear witness, investigate, and report. 

 

Israel does not and refuses to allow any international journalist into Gaza, while actively targeting and murdering local Palestinian journalists. 

 

Is it really that hard to discern who's lying and wanting to hide the truth? 

 

It's not "complicated," no matter how many times they [Zionist Propagandists] hammer that word into people's heads.

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A recent dossier reveals material & ideological ties between Israel and journalists and executives of the NYT. Whether serving in the IOF or taking money from pro-Israel consultancies, the staff at the Times is compromised. Read all about it: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier