Calling a terror operative a journalist doesn’t make him one, CAMERA's Tamar Sternthal writes in The Algemeiner. The AP’s rough schooling in this lesson began with a mundane correspondence, progressed to the most devastating slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, and continued with a hugely embarrassing court case.
As media reports emerge regarding Hamas’ claim that a journalist was killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike, CAMERA reminds the press corps that in 2018 the media-watchdog organization documented that photographer Hassan Eslaiah was an employee of Hamas’ Al Quds TV, and was therefore a Hamas operative, not a journalist.
Recently revealed internal AP correspondence provides a unique window into CAMERA’s often quiet but effective and persistent work, the organization’s impactful interactions with the international press corps and its enduring reverberations well outside journalistic circles.
