The Thomson Reuters Foundation and Kurt Schork Memorial Fund stripped Palestinian journalist Shatha Hammad of a journalism award following its discovery that she quoted Adolf Hitler and used “extreme antisemitic language” on Facebook.
Hammad had received the Kurt Schork Award, an honor named after an American freelance reporter who died in Sierra Leone in 2000 while reporting on the country’s civil war. It recognizes “the courageous work of freelance journalists, local reporters, and news fixers.”
“The decision has been made following the discovery of a social media post on Hammad’s Facebook feed that appears to quote Hitler, which, in doing so, suggests an endorsement of his ideology,” the foundations said on Tuesday. “We have therefore taken this unusual step in order to protect the integrity of the Kurt Schork Awards, established to recognise and celebrate the courageous and brilliant reporting of conflict, corruption and injustice from journalists around the world, who risk their lives daily to speak truth to power.”
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