“Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine and Journalism
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Published 2024-05-17
Our guest is the Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. She is the recipient of the 2024 Columbia Journalism Award, and on Wednesday she addressed the graduating class of the Columbia Journalism School in New York City. Hass discusses the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, why journalists should “resist the normalization of evil and injustice,” Israel’s recent censorship of Al Jazeera, its maintenance of a strict apartheid system, its complete rejection of the prospect of Palestinian statehood and more. “Israel took Palestinian life, liberty and freedom as hostage for the past 75 years,” says Hass. “You go to Tel Aviv, you think you are in New York or you are in London — and 40, 50 kilometers away, Palestinians live in cages.”
We also play an excerpt from the student and faculty-led “People’s Graduation” held Thursday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in response to Columbia University’s crackdown on student protest, which culminated in the administration’s cancellation of university-wide commencement. Centering Palestinian solidarity, the People’s Graduation featured speakers including the Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi, who praised the work of student journalists. While “our institutions have failed us these past seven months, … we listened to your radio stations if we wanted the truth,” she said.
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All Comments (21)
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Kudos to South Africa! And to those countries like Colombia, that stand against GENOCIDE.
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Thank you Amira. Appreciation to you for hearing and relating truth to us. 😢
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Bless these brave, courageous students who refuse to stay silent about the horror they're witnessing in Gaza.
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Thank you Amira Hass for speaking the truth. Palestinians have been trying to fight for their lives and liberation and for the past 76 years. We will not stop until they are free.
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Thank you for covering these issues. The world needs to know.
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Thank you for telling the world the truth ❤❤❤
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Thank you for interviewing Amira Hass and raising her profile. ❤ Resisting the normalization of evil and injustice is the key to throwing off the yolk of empire and its propaganda.
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I LOVE Democracy Now
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Thanks to all Students solidarity campaign for Palestine 🇵🇸...
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"Most Zionists do not believe that God exists but they believe that he promised them Palestine" ~ llan Pappe "God is not a real estate agency
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Hass as a student journalist. It pains me to see the obvious pain in her face as she spoke to us. What a position to be in. May God bless her and all of my colleagues as they struggle to tell the truth in a world that doesnt want to hear it.
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When discussing Pres Biden she said "Such hypocrisy that I'm speechless." I couldn't agree more.
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Ban AIPAC. Keep money for American FAMILIES in Need
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In my worst nightmare I wouldn't have imagined this would go this far with the world's blessing! Still can't believe this is actually happening!!!! Free Palestine!🇵🇸✌
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Ms Amira Hass it was a privilege and honor to hear you speak for the Palestinians.
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The suffering and devastation make me sick. How can anyone claim this is anything but intentional extermination.
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Their isolation is needed. More countries need to join south Africa.
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So sad, that there are not many people like Amira Hass in Israel.
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What a joke America has become. What a moral joke it has been for decades!
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We the people of the next generation of Humanity say "no more violence!"
