In a joint letter, more than 514 American journalists called for reporting the reality as it is on the ground under the Israeli occupation and its policies in Palestine in the US media. The letter, signed by 514 journalists, and titled: “An open letter on U.S. media coverage of Palestine,” requested an end to the lack of covering of Israeli crimes and systematic oppression of Palestinians in the news. “We have failed our audiences with a narrative that obscures the most fundamental aspects of the story: Israel’s military occupation and its system of apartheid,” the journalists said in their letter. The journalists pointed to the need to change the journalistic course and end this decades-long journalistic malpractice. The letter added: “The evidence of Israel’s systematic oppression of Palestinians is overwhelming and must no longer be sanitized.” For further details, click here