The demonstrators are protesting media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which was attended by President Biden, senior administration officials and reporters.
Demonstrators have criticized President Biden’s administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war and mainstream media’s coverage of the conflict.
Videos posted on social media show that chants of “Free, Free Palestine” and calls for a “ceasefire” can be heard near the Washington Hilton, where the dinner will be held.
Feminist grassroots group Code Pink plans to “shut down” the dinner in protest, claiming it has “become a platform to praise and support the actions of the regime.”
“US media perpetuates anti-Palestinian rhetoric and ignores Israeli war crimes,” the group said. “The Correspondents Dinner is nothing more than a celebration and endorsement of the regime’s actions. That’s not journalism. That’s collusion.”
Committee to Protect Journalists Said At least 97 journalists and media workers have been killed since the conflict began on October 7 following a terrorist attack by Hamas in southern Israel.
A group of Palestinian journalists wrote a public article letter In April, he urged reporters to boycott the dinner as an “act of solidarity with us, our fellow journalists.”
“The White House Correspondents Dinner is the embodiment of media manipulation, trading journalistic ethics for access,” they continued. “Journalists fraternizing with President Biden and Vice President Harris at events will normalize, sanitize, and whitewash the administration’s role in genocide.”
The dinner has long been criticized for confusing journalists with the people they were assigned to interview.
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