Is Egypt's Media Inciting Hatred Against Palestinians?
A hate campaign against Palestinians in the Egyptian media has irked Palestinian journalists.
“Deposed President Mohammed Morsi is originally Palestinian,” said one of the guests of a show aired on the Egyptian Al Kahera Wal Nas channel. In the video, which was disseminated on social media websites, the show’s host asked the guest to repeat the so called “important statement.” Activists commenting on the video noted that such statements are part of the wave of instigation that aims to punish the Syrians and Palestinians living in Egypt, especially those who support the Muslim Brotherhood.
Incitement to murder
In another video, one of the guests of a show aired on Egyptian ONTV called for executing every Palestinian and Syrian intervening in Egyptian affairs. The well-known host, Youssef Hussein, said that the government is the one embracing the Palestinian and Syrian refugees. Those refugees are not allowed to intervene in Egyptian affairs or support Morsi, or else they will be responsible for what happens. “If you intervene in Egyptian affairs, you’ll be beaten in public, even if this is outside the law.”
The examples of how media speech is slipping towards incitement are proliferating day after day, which led nine Egyptian human rights organizations to issue a statement on July 7, 2013, condemning “the false information some Egyptian journalists are resorting to, to instigate hatred against the Palestinian people, namely Amro Adib, Lamis Hadidi and Ahmad Moussa on CBC and Tahrir channel, who disseminated on their shows false information that instigates hatred against Palestinians.”
