The Jordan-based Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ) has asserted that many Western media outlets have failed the test of credibility objectivity and impartiality since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
CDFJ said in a statement on Sunday &ldquoMany Western media outlets are working to serve Israeli disinformation campaigns and have played a role in promoting Israeli lies and fake news.&rdquo
The Center a non-profit civil society organization established in Jordan in 1998 explained that the position of the Western media is not due to a lack of knowledge of professional standards but rather a blatant political bias at the expense of independence and professionalism.
CDFJ said that well-established Western media outlets did not put the effort to verify the false and fabricated narratives of the leaders of the Israeli occupation and were complicit in spreading misinformation about the beheading of Israeli children accusing the Palestinian Islamic Jihad of targeting the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital and absolving the occupation of its responsibility for this massacre without investigation and scrutiny.
The Center added: &ldquoMedia outlets did not review history nor their archives to see the number of lies that the occupation authorities have spread in the past decades. If media outlets had waited a little longer it would have become clear to them that dozens of crimes Israel had committed and disavowed would have been proven with conclusive evidence that they were behind them and involved in implementing them and this is documented by United Nations reports missions&rsquo reports and independent international committees.&rdquo
Further CDFJ condemned the bias of many Western media outlets based on the identity and affiliation of the victims and not on the basis of the right to life the right to human dignity and all the rights guaranteed by the International Bill of Human Rights and international humanitarian law.
The Center pointed out that the human rights framework since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza has been absent in many Western media outlets as they did not care to the war crimes committed in Gaza nor did they raise their voices to demand basic needs such as the right to life food water shelter and protection of medical teams and hospitals and their cameras did not capture the hundreds of children who were martyred.
CDFJ brought to mind how the Western media sided in the Ukrainian war how they supported the right of the Ukrainian people to confront the &ldquoRussian aggression&rdquo and how they shed light on the crimes and human rights violations that occurred in Ukraine and asked: &ldquoWhy did the conscience of the Western media wake up in Ukraine but did not when crimes were committed in Gaza?&rdquo
The Center stated that the codes of professional conduct and professional ethics that the Western media considered especially independence and rejection of bias were deliberately neglected and not applied.
On the other hand the Center criticized the harassment campaigns carried out by media outlets against journalists who criticize the Israeli aggression support Palestinian rights or express objection to their media outlets&rsquo bias towards the Israeli narrative.
CDFJ said that journalists were expelled from their work because of criticism of the Israeli leadership and others were referred for investigation because of their declared positions in addition to others who had the courage to submit their resignations in protest against the blatant bias of their institutions.
CDFJ called on the Western media to review its positions commit to spreading the truth align with the concepts of justice and right and adopt the human rights standards that they have always talked about in their coverage and press reports.
The Center finally stated that the Israeli occupation by targeting journalists wants to hide its crimes noting however that killing witnesses (journalists) does not kill the truth.
