An Associated Press reporter in Gaza was removed from his duties after a series of inflammatory social media posts regarding Israel came to light.
Issam Adwan has posted several wires from Gaza since the war began last Saturday, focusing on the conditions of Palestinians under bombardment from the Israeli Air Force. However, a media watchdog released a report documenting several social media posts he had made over a year prior, the nature of which brought into question his objectivity in covering the conflict. In now-deleted posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Adwan repeatedly compared Israel to Nazi Germany, accused it of genocide, and described it as an apartheid regime.
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“To all ignorants playing ‘Hamas/Khamas’ card when we talk about Israeli war crimes/apartheid//ethnic cleansing, Hamas has been established in 1987 while this ongoing genocide happens in 1948. How many massacres and killings Israel did before that? Educate yourselves,” he wrote in October of last year, according to a screenshot from honestreporting.com.
“Palestinian revolt against the Israeli oppression will be a triumph … every colonial system will be overthrown. Meanwhile, you should reflect on what you did to contribute to it,” he wrote last year.
In another case, he told an Israeli in 2019, “Don’t listen to the lies they told you about us. They’re spreading lies and fear to continue with the apartheid system which [separates] us of different races and religions.”
Adwan referred to Islamic Jihad as a “resistance party,” which honestreporting.com said was an effort to “sanitize terrorist organizations.”
The Palestinian journalist was much more reserved in his Associated Press reporting, mainly covering the experiences of civilians in Gaza.
“Israel accuses Hamas of endangering Gaza’s civilian population by placing weapons and missile launchers in densely populated areas. It also accuses them of using civilians as human shields,” he wrote for the wire service on Wednesday. “But the military long has carried out airstrikes in crowded residential neighborhoods, inevitably harming civilians and civilian infrastructure.”
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An Associated Press spokesperson told Fox News that Adwan had been “taken off of reporting duties a few days ago while we look into this.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to Adwan for comment.
