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    Since this happened “live on CNN” I expected to find an article/video about this on CNN, but googling “jake johnson cnn” only finds the CommonDreams.org link

    anyone got a CNN source?

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      www.commondreams.org Israeli Soldiers Violently Assault Palestinian Journalist Live on CNN Jake JohnsonDec 15, 2023 3 - 4 minutes

      Israeli soldiers on Friday brutally assaulted a Palestinian photojournalist as he tried to work in occupied East Jerusalem, violence that was broadcast live by CNN’s Turkish affiliate.

      Footage of the incident shows Israeli soldiers shoving, yelling at, and eventually battering Anadolu Agency’s Mustafa Alkharouf, who was trying to cover the scene as Palestinians gathered near the Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray. The Netanyahu government has imposed tight restrictions on prayer at the Muslim holy site during Israel’s bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip.

      At one point in the footage, an Israeli soldier looks as though he is going to shoot the journalist with his assault rifle, but instead uses the gun to hit him in the face. Subsequently, a soldier throws Alkharouf on the ground while another kicks him repeatedly in the head and torso.

      According to Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson, an Israeli officer asked Alkharouf and other journalists to leave a certain location and, when they attempted to comply, their path was blocked by another officer, who began assaulting Alkharouf. The Israeli soldiers also attacked cameraman Faiz Abu Ramila, who was accompanying Alkharouf.

      Watch:

      Anthony Bellanger, secretary-general of the International Federation of Journalists, condemned the “violent and aggressive” assault and said he’s trying to coordinate assistance for Alkharouf, who was hospitalized.

      “I watched the video and Mustafa in particular was only doing his job and nothing else,” Bellanger told Anadolu.

      Alkharouf is one of dozens of journalists who have been attacked by Israeli forces since October 7. In late October, Reporters Without Borders filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court accusing Israeli forces of committing war crimes against Palestinian reporters.

      “Israel does not want any journalists they cannot control and censor to witness their mass killing campaign in Gaza,” The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill wrote Friday, “so they are systematically killing the Palestinian journalists who are the eyes and ears of the world, reporting from this Israeli-enforced killing cage.”

      According to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) latest count, at least 63 journalists and media workers have been killed in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel, and Lebanon since early October, with Palestinian journalists making up the overwhelming majority of the death toll.

      “CPJ is also investigating numerous unconfirmed reports of other journalists being killed, missing, detained, hurt, or threatened, and of damage to media offices and journalists’ homes,” the group says on its website.

      On Friday, Al Jazeera journalists Wael al-Dahdouh and Samer Abu Daqqa were wounded in a reported Israeli strike on a school in Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s largest city.

      In response, Reporters Without Borders denounced “these endless attacks on journalists who continue to report the news” and demanded “the protection of reporters.”

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            I will say something that I’m probably not allowed to say; Israels actions, especially in the last two months, are ‘antisemitic’, if this word has any meaning at all anymore. Not one entity on the planet drags the jewish people’s name in the mud more than Israel does.

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              that’s why you see so many Jewish people who are staunchly against what the Israeli government is doing.

              Also the Israeli government funneled cash to Hamas. If Hamas is antisemitic, buying them weapons surely must also be.

              Also the Israeli government kills Israeli civilians, including Israeli hostages that are waving a flag of surrender. I can’t imagine how that’s not antisemitic.

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        From watching the video its not as bad as the article makes it out to be

        They continuously move the journalist away but he kept coming back up to them

        The failure to disclose that and hiding the footage can be seen as biased

        Ultimately it doesn’t matter though, no one’s opinion is going to be changed. Reporting incidents just lets whatever side point to it and feel they are right

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      Check out this one’s profile. It’s all obvious, unoriginal, boring trolling across a few communities.

      The best part? They actually had time to give this some thought and this is the best they could come up with. They’re trolling themselves more than anything.

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            People can and will use alts to block evade with no consequences

            Blocks don’t actually stop the offender from seeing you and your posts. Alts are things.They actually are allowed to get the last word in an argument because they can respond to the last comment you made to them before blocking them, among other reasons.

            Federation enables people to run alt armies to exploit and abuse the upvote system, or masquerade as supporters for their side in an argument to gang up on you. That’s how they block evade with alts and get away with it, by pretending to be someone else.

            All brought to you by the ill-conceived idea of federation

            Just be careful out there

            EDIT: Case in point, that guy down there trollbaiting. People like him will get butthurt and downvote you to hell if he thinks he can get away with it, which he can.

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                Yeah, you’re actually supposed to click the three dots at the lower right hand corner of a user’s comment to block them, just FYI. Also you’re supposed to block them right after getting the last word in, not just say you blocked them. Unless blocking is completely broken now. 🤔