Those that target journalists are declaring war on the truth itself
Those that target journalists are declaring war on the truth itself
Here and Here for sources that back up the claims made in this tweet. Additional source for backing up the number of journalists killed in the Vietnam war
The WWII number is ridiculous - are they saying that among the millions of civilians that died, there were only 69 journalists?
The Vietnam number isn't right either - it counts only journalists on the American side.
Generally when you see someone claim that anything is worse than WWII, they're not telling the truth. Even the Hamas attack wasn't as bad as a normal day during that war.
Journalists being killed almost certainly refers to journalists actively reporting on the war, embedded in units, the ones with passes. They are actively linked to orgs so when they die they're accounted for as a killed journalist.
I think including every single death of a civilian who happened to be a journalist but wasn't working as one would be too literal an interpretation.
Even then, the number of official German, Japanese, and North Vietnamese journalists that died is not included and presumably not small. The WWII and Vietnam casualty counts are for the journalists of the stronger power fighting a war on its enemy's territory so I suppose it could be meaningful to compare them to the number of Israeli journalists killed, but they're not really relevant in the context of Palestinian journalists.
Yeah I think this is comparing recorded intentional journalist assassinations in WW2 and the Vietnam war vs total journalists killed in the Gaza war. It's pretty well corroborated that some of the journalist deaths are assassinations but we don't know the concrete numbers obviously.
Uh no Israel are the good guys. They told me so.
If you kill everybody who says you're doing bad things, are you really doing bad things anymore?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_of_Israel
Influencing foreign news, one could see silencing journalists as a form of public relations management
Considering how many of my family members died in the Holocaust, this heavily sarcastic statement might be in really poor taste:
Influencing foreign news, one could see silencing journalists as a form of public relations management
Nuh uh! Israel would never do that cuz that's what Hitler did. Hitler's the one who declared war on the media! Being victims of attempted genocide ourselves, the Jews could never perpetrate such hard-learned lessons on anyone else, right?! Right...?
Am not sure what people expect. Thousands are dead and statistically speaking some of them were journalists. There were also farmers, fishermen, doctors, asshats and all kinds of other vocations. Not sure why journalist would be worse than any of the others. Also, by same logic this claim of WW2 having on 69 journalists killed is complete and utter bullshit. Millions of people died, probability is there were more than 69 journalists in entire Europe and China.
Israel bombed a press squad last week with all the right equipment and a clearly marked press sign on vehicle near the Lebanese border. There were no other people near them.
The IDF terrorists could easily see from their drone that they were journalists. Yet they still bombed them. These are israeli terror attacks hoping to deter journalist from covering their war crimes.
https://youtu.be/RIymozNfp4U?si=XPaurLdJgkO1VhC_
Also this one nearly missing a squad of journalists is very a clearly Targeted IDF terror attack.
and the Americans bombed their clearly marked british Allies in Iraq.
Incompetence is a powerful Thing
Not to justify them, but is it remotely possible their fear is that terrorists would likely label themselves as press in order to get close to targets?
I guess, but you can't do around killing random civilians on the assumption that they are all terrorists.
If this was 2001 maybe. These days cameras from drones can count the grass leaves in a field.
This is the same IDF terrorist group that shot Shireen Abu Akleh two years ago for no reason and then straight up lied they didn't do it for half a year. And then they admitted they "might have done it" .
During WWII American combat medics stopped wearing red crosses because Japanese soldiers would prioritize killing medics, which was a war crime. Seems like journalists might unfortunately need to stop marking themselves as journalists.
Just asking, is this mostly due to more journalists, or due to more people calling themselves journalists? Or both
It could be a factor, no doubt. But considering a couple of anecdotes. One where the IDF opened fire unto a jeep clearly identified as press on the border with Lebanon. And the fact that they've also killed hundreds of UN staffers on Gaza during this past month alone. I'm inclined to think that Israel is being at best reckless, at worst intentionally malicious with who they're targeting. Either way they don't care about who they kill in their murderous warpath.
They literally called or message a press person while live on tv reporting, telling them evacuate your home we are going to bomb it. It is definitely malicious.
Now why the number is high? Well no one in mainstream media care about telling the Truth so more people are doing that to help take footage, because without a picture and a video people don't care to believe written words.
Why did you omit the possibility that they were being targeted on purpose to keep news from leaking?
That’s sort of a deceptive way to talk
Both, but lots of know nothing running around a battlefield calling themselves reporters is a bigger issue these days
I can’t find any source for the numbers from Vietnam and WW2 in the linked sources.
The sources for Vietnam and WW2 are in the second link. It should be noted that nowadays there's much more journalists than ever before. Unlike WW2 and Vietnam journalists were able to avoid areas of potential conflict more easily rather than in Gaza where Israels approach of bombing the shit out of the small strip of land has meant there virtually no place where a journalist reporting on their actions can safely do so.
Also I added a third source to the post which corroborates the Vietnam estimate.
I highly, highly doubt the numbers for WW2 are even remotely accurate. There is no source in the article.
Quickly searching online reveals at least 48 dead mostly American and/or English journalists, although quite a few deaths cannot be considered war crimes even today - being aboard a bomber makes you a valid target I believe.
Besides, where's the number of killed axis journalists? Surely in Hiroshima there were a few dozen journalists, don't you think?
This claim is almost as stupid as thwt israeli delegation that wore David stars to say that Jews were treated just as bad now as they were during WWII. Not entirely as stupid, but close enough.
WWII killed 69 journalists? Really? right there
This claim is almost as stupid as thwt israeli delegation that wore David stars to say that Jews were treated just as bad now as they were during WWII.
Where is the jewish diaspora from the rest of the Middle East then? :)
Also kind of remember a certain military operation to move Ethiopian jews to Israel before getting murdered by either some religious groups or the communists, I cant remember.
What I remember is how 1/3rd of Israel's holocaust survivors live in poverty, and how all of them live with being slurred as Soap by the rest of the Israelis and have their fucking languages banned.
I know, this isn't a fun question, but it's honest curiosity..
Do you think a contributing factor in the number difference is the amount of modern "journalist"? Like bloggers being considered journalists?
But in the end, it's all fucked up and every death is a tragedy, no matter the profession or side.
I googled the names of a few of these guys and they got pictures with the blue "bulletproof" press outfit on and are real journalists.
Sadly these people don't seem to be random bloggers.
Hey maybe the first guy who went around taking pictures of shit for the newspaper was considered insane by some.
Idk, but mb yhe they are our generation's addition to journalism
I hate that I feel like I have to disclaimer that this is just thinking, and not justification or anything... But it's a sensitive topic
But my thought is if we considered all bloggers as journalists... I feel like we'd have to consider people in WW2 who kept journals as well.
Again, not trying to take away from anything. I guess I just think considering internet hobbies as professions is weird in general. Like "rapper kills rapper" news story... But the rappers have a few songs on SoundCloud with like 10 listens.
Conclusion is, there are a lot more journalists around war situations now, willing to take a lot of risk, than there were in older days.
Joke asside though, it's too many deaths, not only on journalists but in all
So this idiotic claim implies that among millions of Jews and millions of Chinese slaughtered there were exactly 69 journalists. Bullshit.
Also if those same "journalists" behave like this medic did where he left injured person lying on the ground and instead took his gun so other person can keep shooting, am not surprised one bit.
Those who target journalists...
This artificial Zionist State that proclaims itself "Israel" has nothing to do with the biblical Israel that the great Christian mass believes in. Get real
IDK. They have a conservative government. This is the type of "shoot first, don't ask questions" mentality they use. This is what it would look like if Bush (either one) or Regan were running the show. Get the conservative warmongers out of power and they're just like everyone else.
Well, they were probably all antisemites so it's NBD.
Show me proof they were targeted. Hanging out in a battlefield while bombs are falling, doesn't mean you were the target
As upsetting as that number is, this is an absolutely meaningless comparison and is pretty misleading to compare them. That number should stand on its own.
Not really because it shows just how reckless towards human life the IDF have been
The number killed by itself does that is what I’m saying. Using WWII data has no purpose because this is an entirely different conflict and also is in the modern era.
I mean consider how many more people now are journalists. Or how the conflict heavily involves civilian populations directly (WWII did some). Or how our data collection has changed.
... unlike the participants of WW2, who were actively annihilating each others cities indiscriminately?
Every idiot with a smartphone and a blog calls themself a journalist these days. Not saying killing them is okay, but the statistic in the OP is likely meaningless.
Not to diminish their journalistic qualities, but some of them are clearly on the level of "Russia Today" but in arab edition
That's literally diminishing their journalism.....
You are doing that though, and by saying that here in a way your are diminishing the value of their lives as well.
I know!
You're seeing politics, when the simple truth is just that we've gotten much better at killing journalists.
I love you
If I call myself a journalist, my words are now truth itself!
❌ Your 1st source is a "News" website, Qatari funded, called Aljazeera (Fun fact: Hamas leaders are now in refuge in Qatar, and Qatar pays them $ billions paying them). This News website cannot be used as a neutral source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism
❌ Your 2nd source doesn't specify whether it was Israel or Hamas who killed them. There is no proof in the article.
Your post is clearly biased against Israel and cannot be considered a source of truth.
My condolences for all the people hurted from this war.
The US military has a base in Qatar. Does that mean the US military is working for HAMAS ?
Do you have proof that they aren't ?
We stand firmly with the Israeli people as they defend themselves against the murderous nihilism of Hamas.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_support_for_Hamas
Qatar is a key financial backer and ally of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas. Qatar has transferred more than $1.8 billion to Hamas.
Let me know if you need more proof
Half the controversies you linked to are about Al Jazeera journalists who were killed by Israel.
Re: your second point, are you really so naive to think Palestinians kill their own journalists? You can’t even smear Al Jazeera without linking to Israel killing journalists.
And are you so naive to think that Hamas, the dictator of Gaza since 2005, a terrorist organization, will allow anyone to honestly report from inside Gaza, and will not kill anyone who even attempts to report honestly from within Gaza? Why are you so sure of Israel killing journalists but can't accept Palestinians killing journalists, when Palestinians are known to kill and torture each other? Read a book or two on the conflict, start with Son of Hamas...
Half the controversies you linked to are about Al Jazeera journalists who were killed by Israel.
This is not true, you are misleading and lying.
Palestinians kill their own journalists?
Palestinians don't kill their own journalists, but Hamas can definitely do it.
Sources of Hamas killing Palestinians: https://statistics.btselem.org/en/stats/since-cast-lead/by-date-of-incident/execution-hamas/occupied-territories?tab=overview
Shalom
Those that target journalists are declaring war on the truth itself
Very poetic and all, but utterly devoid of pragmatism. The western world has lost its thread and failed to understand the importance of its moral positioning.
Wikileaks
Snowden
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi
The west and western journalism have learned and presented as fact all the wrong lessons from this time in history. We need stronger protections for journalism and free speech and assuming the value of morality to be enough to protect them clearly has not been working.
So you're mad because you agree with them? I don't understand your criticism.
They're mad because no one is mad in the way they're mad. It's a persistent and dangerous position, where if people aren't agreeing with them wholeheartedly and in exactly the same way, they're clearly arguing against the person.
thesaurus ._.