From an open letter declaring Israel guilty of 'atrocities' to a deleted cartoon about Hamas using human shields, newsrooms are feeling heat from the left.
The latest chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has aroused passions around the country, and now it's cropping up in newsrooms with staffers and activists putting leftward pressure on outlets to cover the Jewish state far more critically. Israel declared war on Hamas after the terror group invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing over 1,200 people in Israeli border towns, mostly civilians.
Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, in which more than 1,200 Israelis, including four journalists, were killed and some 240 others captured, these issues have compounded,' the letter states.
The Post pulled a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez featuring a Hamas spokesman decrying Israel targeting civilians, while a frightened-looking woman and four small children were bound with rope to his body. Opinion editor David Shipley wrote a mea culpa about the decision, saying some readers found it 'racist,' and a separate email to staff by executive editor Sally Buzbee noted the 'deep concerns' in the newsroom about it.
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