American support for the crimes of the Israeli occupation continues and increases, so what are we to do? The New York Times prohibits its journalists from mentioning genocide and ethnic cleansing, avoiding the \u201coccupied territories\u201d and \u201cPalestine\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Intercept website published a report prepared by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grimm, in which they said that the New York Times issued instructions to journalists covering the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d and to \u201cavoid\u201d using the term \u201coccupied territories\u201d when using the terms \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201cethnic cleansing.\u201d\u00a0 Description of the Palestinian territories, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by the site.\u00a0 The memo also asks reporters not to use the word Palestine \u201cexcept in very rare cases\u201d and to stay away from the term \u201crefugee camps\u201d to describe areas of Gaza where displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine have sought refuge during previous Israeli-Arab wars.\u00a0 The United Nations recognizes these areas as refugee camps and houses hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.\u00a0 The memo \u2014 written by Susan Wesling, standards editor of The Times (as Americans call the paper for short), and international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies \u2014 \u201cprovides guidance on some of the terminology and other issues we have grappled with since the beginning of the conflict in October.\u201d\u00a0 While the document is presented as a general outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in covering the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the newspaper\u2019s acquiescence to Israeli narratives.\u00a0 A source in the newspaper\u2019s newsroom, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, said of the Gaza memo: \u201cI think this kind of thing seems professional and logical if you have no knowledge of the historical context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.\u00a0 But if you knew, it would be clear how much justification is given to Israel.\u201d\u00a0 The guidance was first distributed to Times journalists in November, and the guidance \u2014 which combined and expanded on previous standard guidance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict \u2014 was updated regularly over the following months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: Palestine Embassy, Islamabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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