JOURNALISTS AGAINST THE WAR IN GAZA

Collectives of journalists from the United States have united on a platform, in which they condemn Israel for the disproportionate response and in the nature of collective punishment to the Palestinian population, considering it as a genocide.

Thousands of informants have joined this petition criticizing the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, on the platform, writersagainstthewarongaza.com, in which, among other things, they demand that cultural institutions in the United States suspend their relations with their Israeli counterparts. .

The group of informants highlights the resignation of Jazmine Hughes, editor of the New York Times, who, in a letter, accuses Israel of war crimes against the Palestinians.

"Israel's war against Gaza is an attempt to conduct genocide against the Palestinian people. This war did not begin on October 7th. However, in the last 19 days, the Israeli military has killed over 6,500 Palestinians, including more than 2,500 children, and wounded over 17,000. Gaza is the world's largest open-air prison: its 2 million residents—a majority of whom are refugees, descendants of those whose land was stolen in 1948—have been deprived of basic human rights since the blockade in 2006," the letter states.

The letter specifically criticized the New York Times for writing in an editorial that "what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life and the rule of law."

Another of the New York newspaper's editors, Jamie Lauren Keiles, has joined her colleague, also presenting her resignation.

I resigned from my contributor writing position at the times mag earlier this week because having a formal institutional affiliation was starting to become a liability to my work," Keiles wrote. "nobody asked me to leave. was a personal decision about what kind of work i want to be able to do. all this said, i standby my choice to sign the @wawog_now letter and pray for a free palestine soon."

photo: children killed by Israeli bombings