The New Yorker

The New Yorker - 1 Incitement targeting journalists

• 30 Oct 2023

  Incitement #54
  Wael Al dahdouh Majed Abdulhadi

  One of Al Jazeera’s most prominent journalists, Majed Abdulhadi, celebrated Hamas’s attack as it happened by reciting a kind of prose poem: after rhapsodizing at length about the astonished surprise of an Israeli soldier who was captured in his tank, Abdulhadi concluded that, “in one fell swoop,” the assault had “wiped away dark layers of despair.” The video clip is still circulating on Arab social media, where it has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael al-Dahdouh, has covered many conflicts between Israel and Hamas, and the group’s leaders have sometimes saluted his coverage for conveying their perspective. In an interview on the network in 2021, Dahdouh, who is Palestinian, said that about twenty members of his family had been killed in clashes with Israel. (At least four relatives belonged to the militant group Islamic Jihad.)

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