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Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” (theintercept.com)

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The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.

The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by internally displaced Palestinians, who fled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.

While the document is presented as an outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in reporting on the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the paper’s deference to Israeli narratives.

Almost immediately after the October 7 attacks and the launch of Israel’s scorched-earth war against Gaza, tensions began to boil within the newsroom over the Times coverage. Some staffers said they believed the paper was going out of its way to defer to Israel’s narrative on the events and was not applying even standards in its coverage. Arguments began fomenting on internal Slack and other chat groups.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 63 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What's wrong with saying Palestine?

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 34 points 7 months ago

They don’t want them to exist. Best not to talk them as a country.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Palestine was recognized by the UN as a sovereign non-member state in 1988. It has no declared borders, so it could be considered inaccurate to refer to Palestine as a location rather than referring to the Palestinian people, leading to libel suits.

Basically, Palestine is wherever the Palestinians are. Legally, an attack on the Palestinian people is an attack on Palestine, but an attack on the formally occupied parts of the West Bank are not.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Like Asgard?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Actually, kinda. lol

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, we're the Palestinians living in Gaza by chance?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yes, as well as the West Bank. My point is NYT was probably avoiding libel suits due to the ambiguity of the term “Palestine” because it’s more a definition of a people than a place.

As for the other restrictions, I think we all know what they were trying to avoid saying.