{"id":559528,"date":"2021-06-10T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=559528"},"modified":"2021-06-10T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T18:51:47","slug":"ap-snubbed-as-al-jazeera-wins-hamas-prize-for-gaza-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ap-snubbed-as-al-jazeera-wins-hamas-prize-for-gaza-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Snubbed as Al Jazeera Wins Hamas Prize for Gaza Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fap-snubbed-as-al-jazeera-wins-hamas-prize-for-gaza-coverage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=559528&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.115606936416\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Both media companies shared office space with terror group<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ap-hamas-736x473-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ap-hamas-736x473.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ap-hamas-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ap-hamas-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ap-hamas-700x450.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ap-hamas.jpg 996w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\">\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 June 10, 2021 2:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"89.522751322751\">\n<p>Earlier this week, Qatari news network Al Jazeera accepted an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AviMayer\/status\/1402915656551514120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">award<\/a> from Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization with which it used to share <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/associated-press-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">office space<\/a> in Gaza City. The terror group praised the &#8220;high professionalism&#8221; of Al Jazeera&#8217;s coverage during the recent clashes between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, as well as its demonstrated\u00a0&#8220;affiliation with the cause of the oppressed Palestinian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The network&#8217;s Gaza bureau chief, Wael al-Dahdouh, was photographed receiving the award from Khalil al-Hayya, deputy head of Hamas in Gaza. Terror officials praised Al Jazeera&#8217;s coverage, while also denouncing &#8220;the barbaric behavior of the occupation soldiers.&#8221; According to the Hamas website, the event was &#8220;part of a series of continuous visits carried out by Hamas media relations to honor the media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision to award Al Jazeera for its favorable coverage of anti-Semitic terrorism was a humiliating rebuke to the AP&#8217;s hard work on this same front. For example, the <em>Atlantic<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/associated-press-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in 2014 on the AP&#8217;s extensive efforts to ensure that its coverage did not conflict with the Hamas goal of eradicating Israel.<\/p>\n<p>When the power trio&#8217;s shared office space was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/idf-strikes-alleged-hamas-outpost-journalists-claim-they-are-the-real-target-and-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroyed<\/a> by an Israeli airstrike last month, AP executives insisted (unconvincingly) they had no idea they were working next to terrorists. National security expert Noah Pollak reported, however, that the office building contained &#8220;multiple Hamas operations and offices including weapons manufacturing and military intelligence&#8221; and the AP&#8217;s local reporters &#8220;knew about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that Hamas was aggrieved by the AP&#8217;s out-of-character decision to rescind its <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/the-aps-empty-gesture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">job offer<\/a> to Emily Wilder in response to media reports about her radical anti-Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/ap-hires-anti-israel-activist-as-news-associate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activism<\/a> in college. The AP has an otherwise impressive record of employing anti-Israeli activists, such as Gaza bureau chief Fares Akram, who previously worked as a consultant for the radical left-wing Human Rights Watch and has said he finds it &#8220;difficult to distinguish between what the Israelis call terrorists and the Israeli pilots and tank crews who are invading Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other news,\u00a0Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) has also yet to receive an award from the Palestinian terrorist organization, despite her best efforts. Earlier this week, Omar <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-democrats-condemn-omar-for-equating-us-and-israel-with-hamas-and-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equated<\/a> the United States and Israel to Hamas and other terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity,&#8221; Omar wrote on Twitter. &#8220;We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A group of House Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-democrats-condemn-omar-for-equating-us-and-israel-with-hamas-and-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pounced<\/a> on the congresswoman&#8217;s inflammatory words, calling her statement &#8220;as offensive as it is misguided&#8221; and reflective of a &#8220;deep-seated prejudice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Both media companies shared office space with terror group  Andrew Stiles \u2022 June 10, 2021 2:45 pm Earlier this week, Qatari news network Al &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2279904,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ap-hamas-736x473-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"AP Snubbed as Al Jazeera Wins Hamas Prize for Gaza Coverage","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ap-hamas-736x473-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"AP Snubbed as Al Jazeera Wins Hamas Prize for Gaza Coverage","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}