@mandyarthur Israeli gov't ops in Gaza. UN Women: >38k women & girls killed Oct 2023–Dec 2025. Lancet est. ~23k children + 17k women among violent deaths. Far exceeds Ukraine (~10-15k total civilian deaths since 2022) or Sudan (mostly indirect/famine). No other matches reported scale.
NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.
The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.
This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organization’s resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.
Hi @elonmusk I'd love to be able to contribute to my representatives campaigns via X and maybe even have pay-for DM privileges to present or discuss constituent matters. To hell with PACs? :D