1/ Let's talk about how the Committee to Protect Journalists, under the leadership of @jodieginsberg and @arlenegetz responded to the largest journalist mass-murder spree in human history. 🧵
2/ Jodie Ginsberg pretended to be stupid for as long as she could, arguing that experts just can't figure out if Israel's journalist mass-murder spree was intentional, or if the IDF was stumbling around accidentally murdering journalist after journalist, often in their homes.
4/ Denying their life work by excluding the journalists wasn't enough. CPJ then did a stealth mass-deletion (still unexplained to this day) of Palestinian journalists.
6/ Despite Israel's widely-known "Where's Daddy" policy of murdering people in their homes, CPJ won't call it murder when Israel uses a precision airstrike to murder a journalist in their home. Even after threats and incitement.
8/ All of CPJ's decisions (undercount, deletion, "not murder") seem carefully designed to grant Israel impunity from their "Impunity Index" they release every year.
The Impunity Index is the only item they follow up on year after year, and is widely cited. A clear coverup.
"The only colonizers I know who were in Gush Katif were Palestinians. It was an empty place that Israel made into a paradise on Earth. 8,000 were displaced from their homes-this never happened to any Palestinian…
3/ Translation cont:
"… Today they must pay a price for their aggression. A price for their hatred. A price for those 1200 dead. A price for the blood that was shed and the tears of the mothers of soldiers who are now weeping. This price is the land…