Journalism professors call on New York Times to review October 7 report
Fifty-nine journalism professors from top US universities have called on The New York Times to address questions about a report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in the October 7 attacks on Israel.
The professors said they felt the need to issue a letter to the newspaper after coming across “compelling reports” challenging the integrity of the story.
“The Times’ editorial leadership appears to have largely dismissed these reports and remains silent on important and troubling questions raised about its reporting and editorial processes,” they wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained and posted online by The Washington Post.
“We believe this inaction is not only harming The Times itself, it also actively endangers journalists, including American reporters working in conflict zones as well as Palestinian journalists (of which, the Committee to Protect Journalists estimates, around 100 have been killed in this conflict so far),” the professors said.
A spokeswoman for the Times said the paper has “reviewed the work that was done on this piece of journalism and [we] are satisfied that it met our editorial standards”, the Post reported.
Israeli parliament member says police beat her at rally
Naama Lazimi, a member of Israel’s Knesset representing the left-wing Labor Party, says she was accosted and beaten by police at a rally in Tel Aviv that called for an immediate captive release deal.
In a post on X, Lazimi said police “lost all restraint” while trying to break up the protest on Monday night, beating her as she tried to help a protester who had been arrested. “The violence on the part of the cops was unrestrained; we all felt it was much much different from previous protests,” Lazimi told Israel’s Kan radio.
“To think that the police force, the body that is supposed to protect me, is something I should be afraid of, that protesters should be afraid of, is a reality that cannot be.”
Thousands of Israelis, including the relatives of some captives still held in Gaza, have been staging regular protests in Israel calling on the government to secure the release of Israeli captives or a Gaza ceasefire.
Police at a protest calling for the release of captives in Tel Aviv on Monday
Palestinians turn to crowdfunding to escape Gaza
Palestinians desperate to get their families out of war-battered Gaza are increasingly resorting to crowdfunding campaigns to pay for their journeys.
But burdensome restrictions on Palestinian users of crowdfunding platforms are making it difficult for them to raise and collect funds, while also opening the door for scammers to take advantage of their plight.
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