Committee to Protect Journalists Removes Member After Israel Pressure on Gaza Deaths

What was said

"CPJ is under a lot of pressure to redo the way that it counts journalists who've been killed in Gaza by Israel. The distinction has always been no. If you're a journalist, doesn't matter if you work for RT. Your job is to protect the journalists, not to defend what they say, who they say it on behalf of."

The Committee to Protect Journalists removed a board member who advocated for counting all journalists killed in Gaza, regardless of their media affiliations. Israel has pressured CPJ to exclude journalists working for organizations it designates as terrorist-linked, abandoning CPJ's longstanding principle that journalists deserve protection based on their work, not their employer. Israel has killed more journalists than in any other modern conflict according to CPJ's own prior reporting.