Al Jazeera hosting pro-Hamas event in Qatar promoting October 7 denial

Qatar’s Al Jazeera is holding a two-day conference promoting the denial of the October 7th atrocities and legitimizing Hamas.

By World Israel News Staff

The Qatari media outlet Al Jazeera is hosting a conference this weekend promoting October 7th denialism and the legitimization of the Hamas terror organization in news reporting.

The conference, which began on Saturday and is continuing through Sunday, is being held in Doha, Qatar at the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies and Hamad Bin Khalifa University, a state-funded institution.

The two-day event is being held under the headline “International Media and the War on Gaza: Modalities of Discourse and the Clash of Narratives,” and openly denies atrocities committed by Gaza terrorists in Israel during the October 7th, 2023 invasion, while pushing unsubstantiated claims of Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The organizers of the Arabic event lament that “most Western media, and even some Arab media” have acknowledged the widespread human rights violations and war crimes committed by Gaza terrorists, including members of Hamas, during and after October 7th, 2023.

The conference’s website openly denies what it called “false reports” about “the burning of children,” and the “raping of Israeli women,” despite documentation of sexual assaults and testimony from survivors.

The event frames condemnation of Hamas’ actions as political and part of the “Israeli narrative,” criticizing the use of the term “Hamas terrorism,” while pushing instead “resistance factions.”

Media outlets around the world “redefine Palestinian resistance factions as ‘terrorist organizations’, the conference’s organizers lament, while presenting Hamas as a legitimate political organization with no history of terrorism.

On Sunday, one of the speakers, University of Petra associate professor Manal Mazahreh, claimed that international media outlets have served as a “tool” for Zionist propaganda.

“The media cannot be separated from Israeli propaganda; it has long been a key tool for advancing the goals of the Zionist movement.”

Both Mazahreh and An-Najah National University associate professor Farid Abu Dheir accused Israeli news outlets of becoming increasingly “extremist” since 2023, citing the largely supportive position two major television channels – Channel 12 and Channel 14 – have taken vis-a-vis the IDF.

Throughout Sunday’s addresses, no mention was made of the role of Hamas’ invasion of Israel in 2023 in initiating the Gaza war.