NYT tells journalists covering Israel’s war to avoid words ‘genocide,’ ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘occupied territory’: Report

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It has been revealed by an online American investigation publication that the New York Times has instructed reporters and journalists covering Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” for the Palestinian lands occupied by Israel.

The Intercept obtained a copy of a New York Times internal memo that also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases.”

The memo — written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies — also asks journalists to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars.

The United Nations recognizes these areas as refugee camps that house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.

The memo “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.”

Several Times staffers told The Intercept that the memo proves the paper follows Israeli narratives...

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