Even when @pressfreedom finally (sort of) admits that it screwed up massively, it somehow finds a way to slip right back into terror apologia.
Of the four Palestinians it just reinstated as “journalists,” at least two worked for the U.S.-sanctioned Al-Aqsa TV, which Treasury says is “financed and controlled by Hamas.”
Mohamed Khaireddine is listed by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate as an Al-Aqsa TV employee.
Assaad Shamlakh’s Facebook profile listed him as an employee of the same outlet.
And CPJ just put them back on their list.
For nearly three years, CPJ helped push the incendiary narrative that Israel was systematically slaughtering journalists.
Now CPJ just announced that it has removed another 22 people from its database. Twenty were removed after new research established “engagement in combat,"
