Azmat Khan
@azmatzahra.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter, The New York Times | Birch Professor at Columbia Journalism School & Director of the Li Center for Global Journalism
"The bar for proving proving yourself innocent was so much higher than the bar for intelligence used to lethally target and kill someone."
The always incisive @azmatzahra.bsky.social sharing real history here on how we got on the slippery slope of fascism post-9/11 with ”anti-terrorism” policy.
Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 3w ago"The bar for proving proving yourself innocent was so much higher than the bar for intelligence used to lethally target and kill someone."
In a Journalism 2050 live event, @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin speak with @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Anya Schiffrin about the consequences of the war on Gaza on journalism and what history can teach us about the role of the press in times of crisis. youtu.be/krcMZxnFtEY?...
The Future of Journalism After Gaza | Journalism 2050
YouTube video by Columbia Journalism Review
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@azmatzahra.bsky.social:"by that same logic, you could target somebody who had previously worked for or had previously been in a military and became a journalist. And I think that's a really, really dangerous precedent to set." Like w/ targeted killings, tolerating such violations will damage IHL
Another 5 journalists killed after Israel strikes Gaza's largest hospital
A pair of Israeli strikes on a Gaza hospital killed five journalists and more than a dozen others, including first responders. Some of their deaths occurred on live television in what Israel called a ...
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Important read from the always impeccable @azmatzahra.bsky.social among many other strong contributors. Every journalist, as well as open source researchers, should take a moment for this and take action now to defend press freedom in Gaza.
Ahmed Zidan@zidan.bsky.social · last yr."We need to alter our mindset and make structural changes to how we operate and how we advocate, or we will watch our colleagues be wiped out in place after place and conflict after conflict," @nickturse.bsky.social tells @columjournreview.bsky.social.
Important read by @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social. They asked experts, thinkers across the fields of journalism, human rights, literature, academia, and advocacy for innovative, unconventional ideas to defend press freedom in Gaza.
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
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"We need to alter our mindset and make structural changes to how we operate and how we advocate, or we will watch our colleagues be wiped out in place after place and conflict after conflict," @nickturse.bsky.social tells @columjournreview.bsky.social.
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
cjr.org
📰 Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza In a new project between @columjournreview.bsky.social and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, CJS faculty and graduates explore urgent strategies for protecting journalists in Gaza: www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
cjr.org
Urgent ideas for defending press freedom in Gaza, the world’s deadliest place for journalists. By @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social, and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
cjr.org
It's out! The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social. We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Grateful for the opportunity to write with @oonahathaway.bsky.social & @azmatzahra.bsky.social + work with @yalelawjournal.bsky.social on "The Dangerous Rise of 'Dual-Use' Objects in War": www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-.... More on data & methods here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
“The tactics being pioneered in Gaza – complete information blackouts, attacks on journalists with impunity – risk becoming the new normal unless the international community wakes up to what’s at stake,” @azmatzahra.bsky.social Maurice Oniang'o.
This reporter exposed the civilian toll of US airstrikes. Her warning to colleagues? Be ready for a more hostile world
“The tactics being pioneered in Gaza –blackouts, attacks with impunity– risk becoming the new normal,” says Pulitzer Prize winner Azmat Khan.
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Now out! "Mistakes" in War with @azmatzahra.bsky.social pennlawreview.com/2024/12/04/m...
"Mistakes" In War - Penn Law Review
In 2015, the United States military struck a hospital in Afghanistan run by Médecins Sans Frontières, killing forty-two staff and patients. Testifying afterwards before a Senate Committee, General Joh...
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I spent the last few months reporting across the northern parts of the West Bank, where Palestinians in camps gave extensive accounts of the Israeli military increasingly deploying Gaza’s war tactics, including the IDF using civilians as human shields: nyti.ms/4fZLmTV
Palestinians See Echoes of Israel’s Gaza War in West Bank Raids
West Bank residents say Israeli forces are adopting tactics similar to the ones they are deploying in Gaza, including airstrikes and the use of Palestinians as human shields.
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