Dear Stan,
After ten days of bombarding Gaza, the Israeli military has killed 230 Palestinians, 80% of them civilians. And now they have begun a ground invasion that they promise will be even "messier.”
While all of us at JVP are working around the clock to stop this unfolding disaster—and will keep you posted regularly—NBC news just made our work a whole lot harder by pulling from Gaza Ayman Mohyeldin, one of the most respected, experienced correspondents covering this crisis.
Unless we act now, we may lose some of the most balanced, fair and accurate reporting on Gaza in any mainstream news network. Please tell NBC to let Mohyeldin report from Gaza.
Mohyeldin was removed from his post yesterday, shortly after he filed moving eyewitness reports on Israel’s killing of four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach.(1) He was the most experienced reporter – and the only Arabic speaker - NBC had covering Gaza.
NBC claims it was for Mohyeldin’s security, but they immediately sent in another reporter with less experience. And while there is a long history of intimidating media outlets that report fairly on Israel and Palestine, we can’t say what NBC executives’ real motives were.
But this isn’t just about Ayman Mohyeldin. It goes to the very core of how the United States continues to unconditionally support Israel’s decades-old assault on Palestinian land, livelihoods, and lives. The electorate can’t question US support of Palestinian dispossession if they only know one side--the Israeli government side. Which is why we need to stand up and support fair and balanced reporting now.
American complicity in Israel's ongoing and current assault on Palestinians is deep: we send 3 billion dollars in unconditional military aid each year. Our tax dollars bought the mortar fired at those four children yesterday, and supplied the tanks that are rolling toward Rafah right now.
In spite of what most U.S. reporters say, there is no symmetry in a one-sided war between a military superpower, backed by the US, and an imprisoned civilian population.
Let's insist we get to hear the real truth of Israel's war on Palestinian civilians. Because the truth is, there's no way to stop a war we cannot see. Tell NBC today.
Onward,
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Stefanie Fox
Director of Organizing
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(1) You can see the report Mohyeldin filed on that attack 
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