The Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziata lost his job last week after he asked a European Commission (EC) spokeswoman whether Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza, just as the EC insists Russia must rebuild Ukraine. The EU Israel relationship becomes even more suspicious after the spokeswoman refused to say that Israel should pay, despite its proportionally far greater and entirely deliberate destruction of Gaza – and its slaughter of approaching 700,000 innocent Palestinians – while Nunziata’s employers decided his question was ‘without justification’.

On Thursday, Nunziata’s colleagues challenged the EC about its failure to state the obvious. They demanded to know whether anyone at the EC had called Agenzia Nova and Italia One to ask them to act against Nunziata for daring to speak up on behalf of decency:

The EC spokesman denied it. But somebody did – and if not the EC, then the Israel lobby following its usual pattern of trying to ruin the lives and careers of anyone, particularly journalists, who do their jobs and challenge and scrutinise it.

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By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.