Palestinian-Canadian journalist, Yara Jamal, was terminated from a major Canadian media network due to her pro-Palestine stance, highlighting tensions around media freedom and impartiality in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Jamal, the only Palestinian and Middle Eastern woman in CTV newsroom, faced dismissal following her interview statement: “Jews can exist. The Zionist ideology cannot. The state of Israel cannot in a free Palestine.”
The firing occurred swiftly after a Twitter thread labeled her anti-Semitic, with the network citing a collective agreement violation but not specifying the breach.
“I was asked if I regret what I had said about the state of Israel and I said no”
Canadian Palestinian journalist Yara Jamal says she was fired from CTV, a TV channel, for her pro-Palestine and anti-Zionism views#FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/NVsgmuZ6FL
— TRT World (@trtworld) November 30, 2023
Israel has bombarded the territory for seven weeks. Palestinian health authorities deemed reliable by the United Nations say more than 15,000 Gazans have been confirmed killed, around 40% of them children. A further 6,500 are missing, many feared still buried under rubble.
Two-thirds of Gazans are homeless, most sheltering in the south after Israel ordered the complete evacuation of the northern half of the tiny coastal strip. Once the truce is over, Israel is expected to extend its ground campaign into the south.
