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Israel’s Foreign Ministry condemned arrests and censorship ahead of the meeting in Ankara.
SAZF Chairman Craig Pantanowitz urges cabinet ministers to provide evidence or retract suggestions that Israel is linked to anti-immigrant unrest in South Africa.
“After tainted tally, it’s time to critically cover the Committee to Protect Journalists and help protect journalism from CPJ,” the media watchdog said.
“In the old days, before you had social media and the internet, antisemites had to work to get their message out,” Alyza Lewin, of Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said Nika Soon-Shiong’s five-year board term expired as it reviews whether Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives were misclassified as journalists killed in Gaza.
“A claim is made against Israel. The U.N. repeats it, the world condemns it, then the truth comes out,” the Israeli envoy told the U.N. Security Council. “No apology, no correction, no retraction.”
“We are conducting a full review of the names on our lists to confirm that no one who was actively engaged in combat is listed in our data,” the Committee to Protect Journalists stated.
Hours after the shooting, Arsen Ostrovsky’s blood-soaked image spread “like wildfire,” accompanied by fake manipulations and abusive comments.
Peter James Bloomfield allegedly wrote online threats to kill FBI agents and “blow up the White House,” while investigators say he also made antisemitic threats in his posts.
“Wikipedia’s administrators showed that they are above trivial details like formal charges, a designated prosecutor, basic decorum, distinction between prosecution and judge, dispassionate adjudication and so forth,” Larry Sanger told JNS.
“Antisemitic language does not become acceptable simply because it appears within boycott messaging or political advocacy,” tech nonprofit CyberWell stated.
The Qatar-owned news organization “should not be treated as an impartial or authoritative arbiter,” Kurt Schwartz, CEO of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, told JNS.
