US veteran protests Gaza war at congressional hearing
Josephine Guilbeau, a former captain in the US military, disrupted a congressional hearing on veteran affairs on Wednesday to protest her country’s support for Israel’s war on war.
“You as Congress are complicit in the genocide in Gaza,” said Guilbeau, who served in the US military for 17 years. “You keep sending billions of dollars to Israel. Meanwhile [US] veterans are homeless and committing suicide.”
US morning shows haven’t featured a single Palestinian guest: Report
The Nation magazine says that three major US broadcasting networks did not have a single Palestinian guest appear on their morning news shows since October 2023.
Journalists Adam Johnson and Othman Ali, writing in the US magazine, said they kept a record of the guests on four different morning shows and found that no Palestinians appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union.
The single exception was Face the Nation, on the CBS network, which aired a seven-minute interview with Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom, on November 5, 2023.
Across 208 episodes of the four shows, Gaza was mentioned 2,557 times, and Israeli guests were featured 20 times, the journalists said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared as a guest on all four shows, and even appeared on CNN’s State of the Union twice.
Deutsche Welle insiders accuse German media outlet of pro-Israel bias
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/19/as-gaza-war-rages-deutsche-welle-insiders-accuse-outlet-of-pro-israel-bias
Berlin, Germany – Senior newsroom figures at Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Welle are cultivating a culture of fear among journalists who are tasked with reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza, 13 staff members and freelancers currently working for the network – plus a former long-term correspondent – have told Al Jazeera.
They accuse Deutsche Welle of pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian bias, allege that they have heard colleagues make Islamophobic and dehumanising remarks about Palestinians and protesters, in the Berlin office with impunity, and have shared with Al Jazeera several internal documents – one of which lists “possible comebacks” for anchors to use during live interviews with “pro-Palestinian voices” who make “controversial statements” – such as accusing Israel of war crimes.
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