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Press Gazette / Dominic Ponsford / Sep 16, 2024
“Four columnists have quit the Jewish Chronicle amid a crisis over its political direction, standards and ownership secrecy. The move follows the JC’s decision last week to delete all the articles written for it by freelance journalist Elon Perry. These included a claim, based on ‘intelligence sources’, that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning to smuggle himself and Israeli hostages out of Gaza and into Egypt. The story was based on a single anonymous source but helped to justify Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeping Israeli forces on the Gaza-Egypt border.” LO
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