An American journalist targeted by a right-wing group for her support of Palestinian activism in the university condemned her recent dismissal from the Associated Press News Agency, calling her a “victim of objective and asymmetric enforcement of social media rules.” .

In a statement shared on Twitter on Saturday, Emily Wilder said that the Associated Press manager told her that when she was fired this week, she violated the news agency’s social media policy, but They did not say which tweets violated the policy. , Or how.

On Wednesday, the right-wing organization of her alma mater Stanford University launched what Wilder called a “slander campaign” against her student movement to defend Palestinian rights, and she was fired.

It also happened in israel 11 days military offensive In the Gaza Strip, nearly 250 Palestinians were killed and more than 1,900 others were injured. In Israel, twelve people were killed by rockets fired from coastal Palestinian territories.

Wilder said in the statement: “I am a victim of the asymmetric enforcement of rules surrounding objectivity and social media. Before me, I censored many journalists, especially Palestinian journalists and journalists of other people of color.”

My statement on the dismissal of the Associated Press. pic.twitter.com/kf4NCkDJXx

-Emily Wilder (@vv1lder) May 22, 2021

On Monday, Stanford Republicans tweeted that Wilder, a Jew on campus, was an “anti-Israel instigator.”

Subsequently, the “Washington Freedom Beacon” published an article titled “The Associated Press hires anti-Israel militants as press assistants.” The objective issue raised by the Associated Press in its revelation is that it shares office space with Hamas. This story has been reported on other forums including Fox News.

Associated Press spokeswoman Lauren Easton would not say that Wilder (who started as an AP news assistant in Phoenix, Arizona on May 3) wrote about the violation Articles on the company’s social media policy.

Easton said: “We have this policy so that a person’s comments cannot create dangerous conditions for our reporters to report this news.”

“Every Associated Press reporter is responsible for maintaining our ability to report this conflict or any other conflict in a fair and credible manner, and cannot participate in public forums.”

The Associated Press sends a clear message to aspiring journalists who are interested in making the world a better and fairer world: There is no place for you in our newsroom https://t.co/as0yNvmFrM

-Wesley (@WesleyLowery) May 22, 2021

‘shameful’

However, reporters and others criticized the Associated Press for firing Wilder, saying that the move reflects an unjust double standard of who is considered “biased” when reporting on Israel and Palestine.

Since the Israeli attack on Gaza on May 10, more and more people have criticized the media, especially the American media, for how to cover up the conflict.

US investigative reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones said on Twitter on Saturday: “This is shameful. News organizations require that the accountability and transparency of other organizations comply with the same standards.”

Khalid Elgindi, director of the Palestine and Palestine-Israel Affairs Program of the Middle East Institute think tank, said: “This is an extremely bad case of selective enforcement.”

“In the American press, there is an inference. Okay. Rethinking the concepts of “objectivity” and “neutrality” has always been a time of the past. The concept has always privileged the status quo and everyone who benefits from it,” U.S. Former Minister of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro (Julian Castro) said. Tweet.

It is not difficult to report on the Israeli bombing of Gaza, but for the American media, this is an oral gymnastics competition. @sanasaeed She criticized the way the American media failed to report on the Israeli occupation. pic.twitter.com/eyC22gjrm5

-AJ + (@ajplus) May 21, 2021

In her statement, Wilder questioned what the dismissal sent to other young people who wanted to enter the press.

She wrote: “I have to ask what kind of message this will send to influential young storytellers who wish to convey the outrage or passion for justice,” she wrote.

“Assure aspiring journalists, what is the future prospects, and institutions like the Associated Press will sacrifice those with the weakest power to a group of cruel anonymous bullies? For this industry, even if it is to share the painful experience of the Palestinians Or interrogate the language we use to describe them, which is regarded as irreparable “bias”?”