Israel kills News Journalists; Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia arrest them | Katie Halper | Sharif Kouddous

Egyptian journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous discusses Israel's mass killing of reporters— and how U.S. media enables and incites violence against journalists everywhere. Katie and Sharif also talk about the IDF's open admission that they photoshopped a picture of journalist Ali Hassan Shaib as a Hezbollah militant in order to justify his murder. They also discuss the case of US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who was imprisoned for social media posts about Iran (who has been acquitted since this recording), as well as the case of an "antisemitic" (read: unflattering) photo of a West Bank settler in Italian magazine L'Espresso.

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00:00 Intro
00:21 Sharif Abdel Kouddous' personal journey as a journalist covering the Middle East
03:23 Israel openly hunted & killed Sharif's friend and Drop Site News colleague Hossam Shabat
04:42 U.S. media institutions betray their colleagues, run cover for Israel & incite violence
08:41 "There should be black banners across every newspaper in the States every day" - Sharif Abdel Kouddous
10:50 IDF admits to FOX News that picture of murdered Lebanese reporter Ali Hassan Shaib of was "photoshopped"
12:05 Israel operates with total impunity - "They started to make hit lists"
13:28 Picture of settler in Italian magazine L'Espresso called "antisemitic"
15:07 Imprisonment of US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin for social media posts, who has since been acquitted!

Sharif Abdel Kouddous is a journalist and Middle East North Africa editor at @DropSiteNews, and producer of the Palestine Festival of Literature.

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