I don’t understand. There is more than enough context in each bio. Obviously people who moved to Israel have a service obligation. So? If they did war crimes as part of their service, “following orders” is not an acceptable excuse (Nuremberg principle 4).
There is no picture of Canada being painted. It’s a list of Canadians who may have participated in war crimes.
It’s a list of Canadians with the implication, but little to no evidence, of war crimes beyond the fact that they served in Israel’s military.
To me it feels a lot like the published lists of people who “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death. Yes, it’s likely factual, but it feels like it’s trying to start a witch hunt. And in this case, there’s even less proof of any “wrongdoing”.
I don’t know that it is as simplistic as that. Israel stands accused at the ICJ for genocide, while the Israeli Prime Minister is literally wanted by the ICC. The IDF is therefore directly accused of the most serious of war crimes. Serving as such an army is a huge fucking red flag.
This is more akin to having put together a list of Serbian Canadians serving in the Army of Republika Srpska during the time the Srebrenica massacre happened.
It is not for the journalists to prove anything, but this will undoubtedly be useful to entities like the Hind Rajab Foundation who are intent on prosecuting Israeli war criminals. It also puts pressure on Canadian authorities to do their job and prosecute Canadian criminals.
There is more than enough context in each bio … If they did war crimes as part of their service …
Your arguments show bad faith and as it is not journalism at all.
Before you accuse someone openly as it is done in this report, you would - hopefully also as an ‘ordinary’ person, but certainly as a professional journalist - contact these people and give them a chance to respond to the accusations. Reading their social media posts and then publish their names is not good journalism. You may do this with some public figures if and when the context is clear, but not with individuals of whom you know nothing but their alleged social media accounts. If only one of these accounts are fake or one or more of them have been impersonated, you can do a lot of harm to innocent people. A journalist should know that.
Your comments point in the same direction: You say, “if” they did, and “may” have participated in war crimes. But “if” and “may” is no research. These are assumptions.
Yes, Israel very likely committed war crimes, I hope the judges at the ICC will have the opportunity to open a trial soon. But before everyone else accuses other of a crime, we should do research. This includes data about who did what, when, where. This is missing here.
This is extremely bad practice. It has nothing to do with proper research. And, again, the majority of the articles published on their website follows a similar pattern. There is barely in-depth research, it’s just conveying narratives that appeal to a certain target group. This is, at best, campaigning, but is has nothing to do with journalism.
I’m not sure if you’re accusing me or the journalist of The Maple of bad faith here. Your argumentation is mixed up. I’m not a journalist, I’m some guy on Lemmy and fuck no I don’t have good faith towards soldiers if a genocidal apartheid regime.
Whether war crimes allegations can be individualized to them, that’s for prosecutors to find out. The article adds pressure to Canadian authorities to act. That’s the job of the journalist. It’s then the job of lawyers, prosecutors etc to decide what to act on, what to investigate etc.
Your comments point in the same direction: You say, “if” they did, and “may” have participated in war crimes. But “if” and “may” is no research. These are assumptions.
I don’t understand. There is more than enough context in each bio. Obviously people who moved to Israel have a service obligation. So? If they did war crimes as part of their service, “following orders” is not an acceptable excuse (Nuremberg principle 4).
There is no picture of Canada being painted. It’s a list of Canadians who may have participated in war crimes.
It’s a list of Canadians with the implication, but little to no evidence, of war crimes beyond the fact that they served in Israel’s military.
To me it feels a lot like the published lists of people who “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death. Yes, it’s likely factual, but it feels like it’s trying to start a witch hunt. And in this case, there’s even less proof of any “wrongdoing”.
I don’t know that it is as simplistic as that. Israel stands accused at the ICJ for genocide, while the Israeli Prime Minister is literally wanted by the ICC. The IDF is therefore directly accused of the most serious of war crimes. Serving as such an army is a huge fucking red flag.
This is more akin to having put together a list of Serbian Canadians serving in the Army of Republika Srpska during the time the Srebrenica massacre happened.
It is not for the journalists to prove anything, but this will undoubtedly be useful to entities like the Hind Rajab Foundation who are intent on prosecuting Israeli war criminals. It also puts pressure on Canadian authorities to do their job and prosecute Canadian criminals.
Your arguments show bad faith and as it is not journalism at all.
Before you accuse someone openly as it is done in this report, you would - hopefully also as an ‘ordinary’ person, but certainly as a professional journalist - contact these people and give them a chance to respond to the accusations. Reading their social media posts and then publish their names is not good journalism. You may do this with some public figures if and when the context is clear, but not with individuals of whom you know nothing but their alleged social media accounts. If only one of these accounts are fake or one or more of them have been impersonated, you can do a lot of harm to innocent people. A journalist should know that.
Your comments point in the same direction: You say, “if” they did, and “may” have participated in war crimes. But “if” and “may” is no research. These are assumptions.
Yes, Israel very likely committed war crimes, I hope the judges at the ICC will have the opportunity to open a trial soon. But before everyone else accuses other of a crime, we should do research. This includes data about who did what, when, where. This is missing here.
This is extremely bad practice. It has nothing to do with proper research. And, again, the majority of the articles published on their website follows a similar pattern. There is barely in-depth research, it’s just conveying narratives that appeal to a certain target group. This is, at best, campaigning, but is has nothing to do with journalism.
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I’m not sure if you’re accusing me or the journalist of The Maple of bad faith here. Your argumentation is mixed up. I’m not a journalist, I’m some guy on Lemmy and fuck no I don’t have good faith towards soldiers if a genocidal apartheid regime.
Whether war crimes allegations can be individualized to them, that’s for prosecutors to find out. The article adds pressure to Canadian authorities to act. That’s the job of the journalist. It’s then the job of lawyers, prosecutors etc to decide what to act on, what to investigate etc.
They are not assumptions. They are conditionals.