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AP Hires Anti-Israel Activist as News Associate
AP s objectivity in question amid revelations it shared office space with Hamas
The Associated Press s latest hire is an anti-Israel activist who accused Israel of ethnic cleansing, called the late Jewish donor Sheldon Adelson a naked mole rat, and helped organize protests against Jewish students traveling to Israel on the Birthright program.
Emily Wilder, who previously worked for the
Arizona Republic, announced on Twitter that she would join the AP this month as a news associate, according to a screenshot of her tweet posted by the Stanford College Republicans. Wilder has since set her Twitter account to private.
Delegates react to then-Vice President Joe Biden s speech during the closing night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention held at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on September 6, 2012. (Jared Soares/PBS NewsHour/CC BY-NC 2.0)
Since launching in January 2019, the lobby group Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) has marketed itself as the flagship organization for those wanting to integrate “progressive values” with support for Israel. But a recent series of offensive social media posts made by two DMFI board members, coupled with a history of other troubling statements, has undermined the group’s attempt at laying such a claim.
Jonathan Chait and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Take Friendly Fire for Defending Fired Star Wars Actor Gina Carano: ‘Stop This Bullsh t’
By Tommy ChristopherFeb 13th, 2021, 8:47 am
Jonathan Chait took heavy fire online for defending former
The Mandalorian co-star
Gina Carano.
Carano’s exit from the series was announced after the latest uproar over her social media posts, which included a comparison of American conservatives with persecuted and murdered Jews in Nazi Germany.
Chait wrote a lengthy commentary entitled “Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Hollywood Blacklist,” in which he directly compared Carano’s situation with that of people who were persecuted during the McCarthy era.