As journalists, we should be ashamed. Scrubbing an article because of Ms. Jama’s pro-Palestine stance because of backlash is the equivalent of unpublishing and censoring a story. This is a serious violation of journalistic standards and also an act of anti-Palestinian erasure. Excluding Palestinian perspectives and those of their allies is an explicit form of anti-Palestinian racism, according to the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association.
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