If Tamara Qiblawi had written the same kinds of things about “Palestinian” jihadis, she would have been fired immediately.
“CNN journalist urged to delete anti-Israel posts on social media,” by Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, April 16, 2023:
CNN journalist Tamara Qiblawi will delete a string of anti-Israel and pro-terror comments on social media, according to CNN, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The response came to an HonestReporting (HR) revelation last week that the journalist who wrote a slanted article on April 8 with the headline, “Attacks in West Bank, Tel Aviv as tensions remain high following Israeli strikes,” initially failed to note that the airstrikes were in response to acts of aggression from terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon.
Qiblawi, who is originally from Lebanon, learned at Georgetown University and has worked for CNN since 2015. He is currently the senior digital Middle East producer at its London bureau.
“Qiblawi’s social media history casts doubt on her commitment to CNN’s editorial standards, specifically when it comes to reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict,” HR reported.
HR cited a Facebook entry dated May 15, 2015, in which Qiblawi described the events surrounding Israel’s founding with the Palestinian term nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, a term Palestinians use to describe their experience in the 1948 War of Independence, while denouncing the creation of Israel a safe haven for Jews, “mak[ing] way for an ethnoreligious exclusive state.”
Lebanon faced a “ruthless, genocidal onslaught of an Israeli invasion,” she wrote. She also wrote about her “desire for resistance to the Zio-Saudi project.”
CNN told HR on April 11: “Tamara Qiblawi has a track record of delivering excellent, balanced journalism for CNN on the Middle East and other topics. She has agreed to delete these posts.”…
HR did not call for Qiblawi to be fired, but she should not be permitted to write about Israel due to her bias, he said.
“We were disappointed that CNN did not take any disciplinary action at all against a bylined journalist who reports on Israel and openly calls for its destruction,” Hoffman said. “Israel is clearly not an issue she can report on objectively. By letting this go without even a slap on the wrist, CNN missed a key opportunity to professionally safeguard its coverage of such sensitive matters.”
Huapakechi says
So by “unsaying” those comments she is allowed to continue her publication of hatred, until the next time she oversteps the ever expanding limits of propriety? Had she condemned slavery and child molestation (both tacitly acceptable under islam) would she escape unscathed?
Violet says
I’m so dam sick of these murderous, racist, hypocrits having ANY say in a WESTERN country.
Huapakechi says
I’m sick of them too.