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And the Emmy Goes To … Terrorism and Propaganda!
The Al Jazeera Media Network logo is seen on its headquarters building in Doha, Qatar, June 8, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon
Another blow for journalistic integrity is giving awards to terrorists, and terror supporters who mask themselves as journalists.
Last week, the News and Documentary Emmys Awards did not shy away from doing so.
It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive is a powerful documentation of daily life for displaced Gazans — but only from a surface level point of view.
This approximately eight-minute video on YouTube documents one activist, Bisan Owda’s, experience as a displaced person on the grounds of Al-Shifa Hospital. The biggest kicker is the moment when Owda says that she narrowly avoided death after the Israeli Air Force struck a hospital entrance.
But when one considers all the facts, a certain fabrication of truth and distortion of reality come to light. It’s biased Al Jazeera reporting, from a woman with terror ties.
If you missed the News Emmys, here’s the scoop:
Besides the terrorists honored throughout, Bisan Owda won an Emmy for ‘Outstanding Hard News Feature Story.’
But just a decade ago, she was leading PFLP rallies in Gaza.
Journalism is not a crime, but terrorism certainly is. pic.twitter.com/Qwhs1kxXfz
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 26, 2024
Bisan Owda, 27, was known for her cultural content before October 7, but she was also tied to The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) as recently as 2019. The PFLP is recognized as a terror organization by the European Union and the United States, for its decades of terror attacks in Israel and across the world.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐰𝐝𝐚 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞́
Bisan Owda, the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated queen of Gaza propaganda, is a member of the PFLP terrorist organization.
Here she is in 2015 leading a rally celebrating the PFLP’s 48th anniversary, looking very journalist-y pic.twitter.com/T7Izziqs5w
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) July 27, 2024
And according to press reports, Owda still supports the actions of the PFLP today.
Owda, in association with AJ+ (Al Jazeera Plus) won an Emmy for her piece in the short-form category for outstanding hard news feature story. There were also two other Al Jazeera wins — in Outstanding Climate, Environment & Weather Coverage, as well as Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish categories.
This is the moment when AJ+ representatives made their “thank you” statements on stage:
The #NewsEmmys Award for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form goes to It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive | Aj+ Reports (@ajplus). pic.twitter.com/lKTDR9sfys
— News & Documentary Emmys (@newsemmys) September 26, 2024
Throughout the ceremony, it was said three times that more than 100 Palestinian journalists had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
But plenty of facts were left out of this claim.
How many of these “journalists” were affiliated with terror groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad? That answer was never given, and would greatly reduce the number cited.
And this isn’t the first award granted to Owda or other Hamas and PIJ “journalists” in Gaza for their “coverage” of the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, and the subsequent war.
Owda also won two more awards for the same report, including a Peabody Award.
Other awards include the AP’s win for Picture of the Year back in March for its disturbing image of murdered Israeli Shani Louk on the back of a pickup truck packed with Hamas terrorists on October 7.
Meanwhile, as Hollywood was busy rewarding terrorists last Wednesday, Berlin’s German Television Awards was honoring Jewish actors and creators across the pond at the same time:
Photo Credit: ddp/Cornelius via Reuters.
Die Zweiflers, a miniseries about a Jewish family in Frankfurt with a delicatessen empire, won four awards. The cast of the show stars a list of both Jewish and Israeli actors.
What can we take away from all this? Two things: 1) Journalism is not a crime, but terrorism is, and 2) Maybe it’s time to shift focus away from traditional American-based awards, to other awards ceremonies as well.
The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.
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Sweden Ends Funding for UNRWA, Pledges to Seek Other Aid Channels
View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90.
i24 News – Sweden will no longer fund the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and will instead provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza via other channels, the Scandinavian country said on Friday.
The decision comes on the heels of multiple revelations regarding the agency’s employees’ involvement in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.
Sweden’s decision was in response to the Israeli ban, as it will make channeling aid via the agency more difficult, the country’s aid minister, Benjamin Dousa, said.
“Large parts of UNRWA’s operations in Gaza are either going to be severely weakened or completely impossible,” Dousa said. “For the government, the most important thing is that support gets through.”
The Palestinian embassy in Stockholm said in a statement: “We reject the idea of finding alternatives to UNRWA, which has a special mandate to provide services to Palestinian refugees.”
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel thanked Dousa for a meeting they had this week and for Sweden’s decision to drop its support for UNRWA.
“There are worthy and viable alternatives for humanitarian aid, and I appreciate the willingness to listen and adopt a different approach,” she said.
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Pope Calls Gaza Airstrikes ‘Cruelty’ After Israeli Minister’s Criticism
Pope Francis waves after delivering his traditional Christmas Day Urbi et Orbi speech to the city and the world from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, December 25, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Pope Francis on Saturday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the military offensive there constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.
Francis opened his annual Christmas address to the Catholic cardinals who lead the Vatican’s various departments with what appeared to be a reference to Israeli airstrikes on Friday that killed at least 25 Palestinians in Gaza.
“Yesterday, children were bombed,” said the pope. “This is cruelty. This is not war. I wanted to say this because it touches the heart.”
The pope, as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is usually careful about taking sides in conflicts, but he has recently been more outspoken about Israel’s military campaign against Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
In book excerpts published last month, the pontiff said some international experts said that “what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide.”
Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli sharply criticized those comments in an unusual open letter published by Italian newspaper Il Foglio on Friday. Chikli said the pope’s remarks amounted to a “trivialization” of the term genocide.
Francis also said on Saturday that the Catholic bishop of Jerusalem, known as a patriarch, had tried to enter the Gaza Strip on Friday to visit Catholics there, but was denied entry.
The patriarch’s office told Reuters it was not able to comment on the pope’s remarks about the patriarch being denied entry.
Israeli officials were not immediately reachable for comment on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, and the Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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IDF Pledges to Implement Lessons from Failure to Intercept Houthi Missile
Iranian-backed Yemeni terrorist leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. Photo: Screenshot
i24 News – The Israeli military said on Saturday that while the investigation into the failure to intercept the missile that hit Tel Aviv early in the morning was still ongoing, some lessons were already being implemented. The ballistic missile, fired by Yemen’s Houthi jihadists, landed at a playground in a residential area, leading to 16 people sustaining injuries from glass shards.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said that “some of the conclusions have already been implemented, in regards of both interception and early warning.”
The spokesperson added that “no further details regarding aerial defense activities and the alert system can be disclosed due to operational security considerations.”
The Houthis have repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israel in what they describe as “acts of solidarity” with Palestinians in Gaza.
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