2y ago

Palestinian journalist says CTV News fired her after "speaking up for Palestine"

dailyhive.com

Just a moment...

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Is this not a fairly cut and dry discriminatory firing case?
- Depends on what she said.
  
  And when/where/to who.
  Edit: it states in the article what she said, which is that Israel should not exist.
Anyone else getting that whole "wmd's in iraq" vibe again?
- This one is worse. Back then, one can argue, it was innocent times. Right now people have more access to information.
So much for "freedom of speech"! Bigots.
She didn't speak up for Palestine, she spoke for the destruction of Israel and an Arab state where Jews are second class
- Got any quotes/source?
  Basically any stance on this conflict besides "civilian casualties bad" is a shit take, I'm not going to be surprised if a reporter gets fired for conflating Israel v Hamas with Muslim v Jew
  
  It's literally in the article.
- From your perspective, how does the current situation in Israel and the territories that Israel controls differ from Apartheid South Africa? I'm trying to understand your world view.
  
  Not all situations are the same. It's a different region and situation, even if you really want it to be the same
- Source?
  
  The article itself...
This is part is why the conservatives want to defund CBC.
- I'm confused. what does this have to do with the CBC? The network that fired her is CTV.
  
  I guess my point was not laid out very well. I highly doubt CBC would be firing someone for this, yet CTV is. The Conservatives want a news agency that will fire someone for speaking the truth and attending a rally about the death of their own people.
- The Conservatives fully support Israel, and have both party policy and recent statements proving that.
  They don't like the CBC, but bias on this topic is not one of the issues they have with them.
  
  I didn’t explain enough I guess, CBC has stood behind minority reporters before and it sure they would do it again while as CTV will fire them.
- Conservatives want private news agencies to be able to fire anyone they please and to remove protections.
  
  Probably, but CBC has fired journalists in the past over controversies. They must want it to be even easier to dismiss people.

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