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Support Global News against attacks for interviewing Palestinian professor

Please join us in defending Global News for their strong interview with Professor Atalia Omer about the ongoing events in Gaza. Global News has come under fierce attack from Honest Reporting Canada (HRC), a pro-Israel organization, for simply providing a larger context about what is currently happening in Gaza.

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A CJPME Media Researcher has launched a media alert for the following article. Please submit a quick response to the media, even if it’s just a sentence or two:

Title of Piece: Atalia Omer: "Israeli Prime Minister declares the country ‘at war’"

Media Outlet: Global News
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Comments of the CJPME Media Researcher:
(Note: Please do not copy and paste the material below as the content to your message to the media - put all comments in your own words):
Please join us in defending Global News for their strong interview with Professor Atalia Omer about the ongoing events in Gaza. Global News has come under fierce attack from Honest Reporting Canada (HRC), a pro-Israel organization, for simply providing a larger context about what is currently happening in Gaza.

HRC took issue with Omer’s appropriate and important comment that Hamas’s decisions are an “expression of people who have been occupied & oppressed for over 75 years.” HRC is also attacking the host for not “challenging” Omer. Good journalism should provide context — this is a basic and uncontroversial journalistic principle. Global News succeeded in this regard and deserves thanks. Pro-Israel lobby groups want the context to be hidden, but it is important we fight this form of bias. All too often, context is left out in coverage of Palestine. Please join us in encouraging this essential aspect of reporting by writing to Sonia Verma, the Editor-in-Chief of Global News.

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