

Rather than denouncing the very real antisemitism that permeated Hammad’s Facebook profile, as exposed by HonestReporting, the Arabic-language media accused “Zionists” of “silencing the Palestinian narrative” (see, for instance, here, here and here). After the Thomson Reuters Foundation last week moved to strip West Bank-based journalist Shatha Hammad of her Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, the Palestinian press corps immediately rushed to her defense.
