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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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Israeli Strike on Tehran Kills Bodyguard of Slain Hezbollah Chief
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi lays a wreath as he visits the burial site of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, June 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
A member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli air strike on Tehran alongside a member of an Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters and the Iraqi group said on Saturday.
The source identified the Hezbollah member as Abu Ali Khalil, who had served as a bodyguard for Hezbollah’s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah. The source said Khalil had been on a religious pilgrimage to Iraq when he met up with a member of the Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada group.
They traveled together to Tehran and were both killed in an Israeli strike there, along with Khalil’s son, the senior security source said. Hezbollah has not joined in Iran’s air strikes against Israel from Lebanon.
Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada published a statement confirming that both the head of its security unit and Khalil had been killed in an Israeli strike.
Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli aerial attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs in September.
Israel and Iran have been trading strikes for nine consecutive days since Israel launched attacks on Iran, saying Tehran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Iran has said it does not seek nuclear weapons.
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Hamas Financial Officer and Commander Eliminated by IDF in the Gaza Strip
Israeli soldiers operate during a ground operation in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, July 3, 2024. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS
i24 News – The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), in cooperation with the General Security Service (Shin Bet), announced on Friday the killing of Ibrahim Abu Shamala, a senior financial official in Hamas’ military wing.
The operation took place on June 17th in the central Gaza Strip.
Abu Shamala held several key positions, including financial officer for Hamas’ military wing and assistant to Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’ military wing until his elimination in March 2024.
He was responsible for managing all the financial resources of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza, overseeing the planning and execution of the group’s war budget. This involved handling and smuggling millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip to fund Hamas’ military operations.
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Report: Wary of Assassination by Israel, Khamenei Names 3 Potential Successors
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2025. Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
i24 News – Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei named three senior clerics as candidates to succeed him should he be killed, the New York Times reported on Saturday citing unnamed Iranian officials. It is understood the Ayatollah fears he could be assassinated in the coming days.
Khamenei reportedly mostly speaks with his commanders through a trusted aide now, suspending electronic communications.
Khamenei has designated three senior religious figures as candidates to replace him as well as choosing successors in the military chain of command in the likely event that additional senior officials be eliminated.
Earlier on Saturday Israel confirmed the elimination of Saeed Izadi and Bhanam Shahriari.
Shahriari, head of Iran’s Quds Force Weapons Transfer Unit, responsible for arming Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, was killed in an Israeli airstrike over 1,000 km from Israel in western Iran.
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