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New Straits Times
a day ago
- Politics
- New Straits Times
CPJ says journalists 'must never be targeted in war' after Israel's Gaza strike
JERUSALEM: Media advocacy group the Committee to Protect Journalists slammed an Israeli strike that killed several Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, saying journalists should never be targeted in war. "Journalists are civilians. They must never be targeted in war. And to do so is a war crime," Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told AFP. The CPJ in July called for the protection of Anas al-Sharif, one of the journalists killed in the Israeli strike, after an Israeli military spokesman claimed he was a militant, accusing Israel of a "pattern" of labelling journalists militants "without providing credible evidence". Numerous Al Jazeera staff in Gaza have faced similar accusations from the Israeli military during the war. According to local journalists who knew him, Sharif had worked at the start of his career with a Hamas communication office, where his role was to publicise events organised by the militant group that has exercised total control over Gaza since 2006. "International law is clear that active combatants are the only justified targets in a war setting," Ginsberg said. "So unless the IDF can demonstrate that Anas al-Sharif was still an active combatant, then there is no justification for his killing," she said, using an acronym for the Israeli military.
CBC
a day ago
- Politics
- CBC
Human rights advocate says response to killing of journalists in Gaza ‘weak at best'
Calls are growing for an independent investigation into the death of Al Jazeera and independent journalists who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, says the attacks qualify as war crimes, and tells Power & Politics what action her organization wants to see from international governments in response to the targeting of journalists.
Business Recorder
2 days ago
- Politics
- Business Recorder
CPJ says journalists ‘must never be targeted in war' after Israel's Gaza strike
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Media advocacy group the Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday slammed an Israeli strike that killed several Al Jazeera staff in Gaza overnight, saying journalists should never be targeted in war. 'Journalists are civilians. They must never be targeted in war. And to do so is a war crime,' Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told AFP. The CPJ in July called for the protection of Anas al-Sharif, one of the journalists killed in the Israeli strike, after an Israeli military spokesman claimed he was a militant, accusing Israel of a 'pattern' of labelling journalists militants 'without providing credible evidence'. Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif Numerous Al Jazeera staff in Gaza have faced similar accusations from the Israeli military during the war. According to local journalists who knew him, Sharif had worked at the start of his career with a Hamas communication office, where his role was to publicise events organised by the group that has exercised total control over Gaza since 2006. 'International law is clear that active combatants are the only justified targets in a war setting,' Ginsberg said. 'So unless the IDF can demonstrate that Anas al-Sharif was still an active combatant, then there is no justification for his killing,' she said, using an acronym for the Israeli military.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fearing Trump action, US nonprofits seek shelter in the UK
The Committee to Protect Journalists, the US-based press freedom charity, has directed a British law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump administration executive orders targeting American nonprofits. CPJ is far from alone: UK law firms have reported a surge in US-based nonprofits inquiring about creating legal entities in Britain, either to begin shifting their operations and funds abroad or as a precautionary step, while charity advisers and consultants said nonprofits were considering other countries including Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. While many have long sought to expand their operations abroad, viewing London as a natural initial destination, their efforts have been accelerated by fear of what may be coming in Washington. CPJ's board discussed and approved the move to create a UK legal entity during a special meeting in April, a spokesperson told Semafor, but has not yet finalized the form that the charity's legal entity will take. The decision was partly driven by a long-term desire to expand CPJ's fundraising efforts outside the US, the spokesperson noted, but reports that the White House is considering executive orders targeting a raft of nonprofits — including those focused on media freedoms, the environment, and international development — were also a factor: 'The actions of the new administration [have] certainly focused our minds as a nonprofit based in the United States,' CPJ Chief Executive Jodie Ginsberg said. Trump's political adversaries have also been stunned by the speed and ferocity with which the administration has sought to crack down on nonprofits and international development organizations he sees as linked to Democrats or the left: Along with the shuttering of most USAID programs as well as the overseas aid agency itself, the White House also weighed executive orders that would strip US-based environmental groups of their tax-exempt status, according to Bloomberg, viewing them as opposed to the administration's push to expand fossil fuel production. And it has explored ways to change the rules by which nonprofits obtain tax-exempt status, The Wall Street Journal reported last month. Jonathan Brinsden, a partner focused on charities and nonprofits at the London law firm Broadfield, said that in the last six weeks, he had offered initial legal advice to approximately a dozen US-based nonprofits looking to set up UK entities, compared to one such inquiry in the three months prior. The charities were largely related to ESG causes and international development, he said. 'I've talked to some CEOs of charities who talk about being a frog in the pan, and becoming comfortable with risk, not really appreciating that the temperature is moving in one direction,' Brinsden said. 'It's not a unique situation,' he added, referencing the politicization of charities in the UK, 'but like everything in the US, the volume is a lot louder.' The UK's charity regulator benefits from being 'more predictable and collaborative' than its US counterpart, Brinsden noted in a post for his firm. NGOs aren't the only organizations being targeted: Elite universities are also in the Trump administration's crosshairs, with the authorities mounting an array of challenges to their funding model, as Semafor's Liz Hoffman notes.
Business Recorder
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Business Recorder
CPJ, global media leaders call for urgent, unrestricted access to Gaza for journalists
NEW YORK: More than 130 global leaders of news and press freedom organizations called on world leaders, governments, and international institutions on Thursday to act immediately to ensure journalists from outside Gaza are given immediate, independent access to the territory, in a letter coordinated by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters without Borders (RSF). After 20 months of almost complete exclusion of international media from Gaza, the letter demands the protection of Palestinian journalists currently reporting under siege in the territory. Israeli authorities have prevented international journalists from entering Gaza since the start of the war, except for brief excursions, tightly controlled by the military. Meanwhile, local Palestinian journalists have risked their lives to report under extreme conditions of violence, displacement, and hunger. At least 181 journalists and media workers have been killed – 179 of them by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon since the war started, making it the deadliest conflict for the press since CPJ started recording data in 1992. 'When journalists are killed in such unprecedented numbers and independent international media is barred from entering, the world loses its ability to see clearly, to understand fully, and to respond effectively to what is happening. Access must be restored, and the rights of journalists must be respected,' said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. 'Journalists must be allowed to report without fear for their lives.'
