This is an extraordinary story from Alexander Willis, a journalist based in Alabama who was unexpectedly offered a five-day freebie in Israel courtesy of the American Middle East Press Association AMEPA.
Given the Israeli ban on foreign journalists reporting from Gaza on the ground, this is about as close as he could hope to get to “the truth” that AMEPA promised about the ongoing war. So he went.
He discovered that AMEPA’s truth amounted to “a version of pure Israeli propaganda far more extreme than anything I could have expected.”
This editor can’t help wondering what the other 13 journalists on the tour made of it.
This article was originally published by Dropsite News on Wed 20 Nov 2024.