Faced with growing condemnation from the Israeli government and its affiliated lobbies, the DC-based Newseum, a museum chronicling the history of journalism, has announced that it will rescind its inclusion of two cameramen from the memorial honoring slain journalists of 2012.
The two cameramen were working for the al-Aqsa TV station in the Gaza Strip when Israeli warplanes deliberated bombed their media van, killing them. Israel insisted that since al-Aqsa TV is state-run, and the Gaza Strip is run by Hamas, it makes all al-Aqsa employees de facto Hamas and therefore “terrorists.”
The attacks came as part of November’s Israeli war on Gaza, and the targeting of journalists as well as newspaper offices was a subject of much criticism. The ADL insisted that including the slain Gazans in a list of journalists killed during the line of duty was “advancing their agenda.” Media watchdogs have uniformly included them on similar lists.
The Newseum, however, insists that they are now backtracking because of the controversy, and that they are no longer sure if the slain were “truly journalists.”
Just another instance proving that all this talk about Israel's "influence" over all US organizations is a complete fable and fabrication of anti-semites…
spineless display.
The Palestinians were truer journalists than the hasbara propagandists coming out of Israel and its colony, the US
Newseum is a perfect example of why journalism is a joke today…constant and cowardly pandering to the powers that be. They are the powers that be for Christs sake! The real stories in "journalism" today are the ones never covered in the corporate media.Everybody with a brain knows they are government and corporate stenographers. Nothing more. I would not go to this museum to use the mens room.
It is a shame that the courage and heroism of these true journalist are not able to be honored due to pressure from the Israel lobby. This is much like the captain of the USS Liberty, the US navy ship atacked with napalm and life rafts strafed by Israeli planes and torpedo boats for hours killing or wounding 200 hundred of the 235 person crew, who was given the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving his ship but in hushed up backdoor ceremony. Why? Because heroism cannot be honored if it call attention to Israeli and zionist war crimes and apartheid.
"truly journalists" equals Zionist?