A table at the Association and Club of Foreign Press Correspondents event honors Hamas-linked Al Jazeera journalists. (X Screenshot)
Israeli intelligence documents identified several of those honored as active terrorists.
By JNS
The Association and Club of Foreign Press Correspondents USA honored several individuals later identified as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives at its Dec. 4 gala in Washington, according to media watchdog HonestReporting.
The ceremony included a moment of silence for 10 Al Jazeera reporters killed in Gaza, with their photos displayed at a memorial table. The organization also awarded Al Jazeera a “press freedom grant.”
Israeli intelligence documents identified several of those honored as active terrorists, including Anas al-Sharif, described as head of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks, and Ismail al-Ghoul, identified as a member of Hamas’s Nukhba forces.
“The Association and Club of Foreign Press Correspondents USA did a disservice to journalism by honoring terrorists who attacked Israeli civilians at their dinner,” Gil Hoffman, HonestReporting’s executive director, told JNS on Tuesday.
“They transformed what should have been a celebration of journalistic integrity into a moral failure.”
The event also honored veteran NBC journalist Andrea Mitchell and featured Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst, who praised Palestinian journalists in Gaza during his acceptance speech.
The conference was cosponsored by nearly 40 organizations, most of them fiercely anti-Israel.
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