“Brave action” of 750 international journalists in condemning the Zionist regime

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, more than 750 journalists from dozens of news organizations signed a The open letter condemned Israel’s attacks on journalists and criticized the way the news of the Gaza war was covered by the Western media.

In this letter, it is stated that news agencies are responsible for promoting anti-human narratives that justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Washington Post The signatories of this letter include reporters from various media including Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Washington Post.

Washington Post writes that signing this letter is considered a brave and sometimes risky action for some of these journalists, because in the past days, journalists of some media have lost their jobs for supporting Palestine.

Abdullah Fayyaz, Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2022, who was formerly a member of the editorial board of the Boston Globe, said about his reason for signing this letter: My hope for signing this letter is to reject the culture of fear regarding this issue.

Suhana Hossein, one of the other signatories of the letter, says that the ultimate goal of this letter is to ask journalists to do their duty and hold those in power accountable.

In this letter, journalists are asked to They should not be afraid to use terms like “apartheid”, “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions towards the Palestinians.