AMMAN — The
Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists
(CDFJ) has asserted that many western media outlets have failed the test of
credibility, objectivity, and impartiality since the start of the
Israeli aggression on Gaza.
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“Many Western media outlets are working to
serve Israeli disinformation campaigns and have played a role in promoting Israeli lies and
fake news,” a statement from the CDFJ read.
The Center explained that the position of the Western media
is not due to a lack of knowledge of professional standards, but rather a
blatant political bias at the expense of independence and professionalism.
CDFJ said that well-established Western media outlets had
not put the effort to verify the false and fabricated narratives of the leaders
of the Israeli occupation. They accused them of complicity in spreading
misinformation about the beheading of Israeli children, and absolving the
occupation of its responsibility for the massacre at the Al Ahli Hospital, by
broadcasting Israeli claims that the explosion was a misfired Islamic Jihad
rocket without investigation and scrutiny.
“Media outlets did
not review history, nor their archives to see the number of lies that the
occupation authorities have spread in the past decades,” they continued.
“If media outlets had waited a little longer, it would have
become clear to them that dozens of crimes Israel had committed and disavowed
had been proven with conclusive evidence. This is documented by United Nations
reports, missions’ reports, and independent international committees.”
CDFJ condemned the bias of many Western media outlets based
on the identity and affiliation of the victims, and pointed out that the human
rights framework since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza had been absent
in many Western media outlets.
CDFJ brought to mind how the Western media sided in the
Ukrainian war, how they supported the right of the Ukrainian people to confront
the “Russian aggression”, and how they shed light on the crimes and human
rights violations that occurred in Ukraine.
“Why did the
conscience of the Western media wake up in Ukraine, and most of it did not
about what is happening in Gaza?”
The Center criticized the harassment campaigns carried out
by media outlets against journalists who criticize the Israeli aggression,
support Palestinian rights, or express objection to their media outlets’ bias
towards the Israeli narrative.
CDFJ said that journalists were expelled from their work
because of criticism of the Israeli leadership, and others were referred for
investigation because of their declared positions, in addition to others who
had the courage to submit their resignations in protest against the blatant
bias of their institutions.
They went on to warn of the Israeli occupation’s tendency to
close many media outlets under the pretext of “harming national security,”.
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