Israel keeps murdering journalists – how will free speech champions in ACT respond?
Israeli killing of Lebanese journalist draws international condemnation
Israel’s killing of a prominent Lebanese journalist in a double-tap strike has been greeted with international outrage as Lebanon’s prime minister described the attack as a “war crime”.
Amal Khalil, 43, who worked for al-Akhbar newspaper, was buried on Thursday. She was killed in what colleagues described as a sustained attack by Israeli forces, with rescuers attempting to dig her out of the rubble of a building also targeted and prevented from providing life-saving assistance.
Her death prompted renewed accusations that Israel has a policy of targeting media workers, despite its repeated denials.
Khalil had previously spoken of receiving a threat via an unidentified Israeli phone number that she would be killed if she did not leave southern Lebanon, where she had long been based.
Khalil’s killing was condemned by senior figures from across Lebanese politics even as they prepared for fresh talks in Washington on Thursday aimed at extending a fraught ceasefire with Israel.
Lebanon’s president, Joseph Aoun, said Israel’s “deliberate and consistent targeting of journalists” was “aimed at concealing the truth of its aggressive acts against Lebanon, in addition to constituting crimes against humanity punishable under international laws and conventions”.
Echoing Aoun’s comments, the prime minister, Nawaf Salam, said the targeting of journalists amounted to war crimes.
“Israel’s targeting of media workers in the south while they carry out their professional duties is no longer isolated incidents, but has become an established approach that we condemn and reject, as do all international laws and conventions,” Salam wrote on social media, emphasising that Lebanon would pursue actions in international forums in response to Israel’s conduct.
The Guardian
You target journalists to hide the terrible violence you are doing. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon is outrageous and the bombings reported to have killed over 2,500 people.
Israel is exporting Gaza to Southern Lebanon.
Look at how the IDF treated CNN…
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This isn’t chaos — it’s systemic
…read the report into the systematic torture Israel dishes out to Palestinian prisoners…
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…I can understand a tense moment where a soldier hits someone in frustration.
I don’t like it, but I get it.
That’s not what is happening here.
The Israelis are systematically torturing prisoners in the most terrible ways.
Israel loves to boast and tell us they are the only democracy in the Middle East, that they are a country of laws but the systematic torture of prisoners proves they are not any of that.
Systematically torturing prisoners isn’t a mistake. It’s a choice.
When journalists are silenced, the violence doesn’t stop — it just becomes easier to deny. And once that happens, the question isn’t just what is being done. It’s what the rest of the world is willing to ignore.
So what will be free speech champions ACT response to Israel murdering journalists?
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I’m pretty sure Simon Court’s beliefs that he looks anything like that is not so much a hate crime as a hate joke.
Martin please ask Chippy the next time you interview him.will Labour NZ put sanctions on Israel if Labour forms the next Government .Regarding people who acuse anyone of being antisemetic who critize Israel, my wifes Grandfather was deported to Auschwitz Death Camp for being Jewish and my late mother n law had to do forced child slave labour by the Nazies because she was part Jewish I have a work in progress documentary on the above .However our family a not white supremacist Genocidal Zionist or anti Palestinian racist .I recomend Isaeli Historian Illan Pepe new book Israel on the Brink. That argues the two state solution is no longer possible but a one state salutiion with equal voting rights for Palestinians would bring more justice
My daughter was listening to BFM, and Simon Court was being interviewed and criticism of the “chosen people” came up. After hearing his unhinged irrational response, I asked my daughter who was being interviewed, when she said Simon Court, I had to ask “For real?”. For a free speech warrior, he seems mighty fragile.
I wonder if that AI picture is more of a wish fulfilment, like he wishes he actually had a chin…