Azmat Khan
@azmatzahra.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter, The New York Times | Birch Professor at Columbia Journalism School & Director of the Li Center for Global Journalism
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@azmatzahra.bsky.social:"by that same logic, you could target somebody who had previously worked for or had previously been in a military and became a journalist. And I think that's a really, really dangerous precedent to set."
Like w/ targeted killings, tolerating such violations will damage IHL
Like w/ targeted killings, tolerating such violations will damage IHL
Another 5 journalists killed after Israel strikes Gaza's largest hospital
A pair of Israeli strikes on a Gaza hospital killed five journalists and more than a dozen others, including first responders. Some of their deaths occurred on live television in what Israel called a ...
www.pbs.org
August 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@azmatzahra.bsky.social:"by that same logic, you could target somebody who had previously worked for or had previously been in a military and became a journalist. And I think that's a really, really dangerous precedent to set."
Like w/ targeted killings, tolerating such violations will damage IHL
Like w/ targeted killings, tolerating such violations will damage IHL
Reposted by Azmat Khan
Important read from the always impeccable @azmatzahra.bsky.social among many other strong contributors. Every journalist, as well as open source researchers, should take a moment for this and take action now to defend press freedom in Gaza.
"We need to alter our mindset and make structural changes to how we operate and how we advocate, or we will watch our colleagues be wiped out in place after place and conflict after conflict," @nickturse.bsky.social tells @columjournreview.bsky.social.
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
www.cjr.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Important read from the always impeccable @azmatzahra.bsky.social among many other strong contributors. Every journalist, as well as open source researchers, should take a moment for this and take action now to defend press freedom in Gaza.
Reposted by Azmat Khan
Important read by @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social.
They asked experts, thinkers across the fields of journalism, human rights, literature, academia, and advocacy for innovative, unconventional ideas to defend press freedom in Gaza.
They asked experts, thinkers across the fields of journalism, human rights, literature, academia, and advocacy for innovative, unconventional ideas to defend press freedom in Gaza.
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
www.cjr.org
August 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Important read by @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social.
They asked experts, thinkers across the fields of journalism, human rights, literature, academia, and advocacy for innovative, unconventional ideas to defend press freedom in Gaza.
They asked experts, thinkers across the fields of journalism, human rights, literature, academia, and advocacy for innovative, unconventional ideas to defend press freedom in Gaza.
Reposted by Azmat Khan
"We need to alter our mindset and make structural changes to how we operate and how we advocate, or we will watch our colleagues be wiped out in place after place and conflict after conflict," @nickturse.bsky.social tells @columjournreview.bsky.social.
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
www.cjr.org
August 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"We need to alter our mindset and make structural changes to how we operate and how we advocate, or we will watch our colleagues be wiped out in place after place and conflict after conflict," @nickturse.bsky.social tells @columjournreview.bsky.social.
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📰 Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
In a new project between
@columjournreview.bsky.social and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, CJS faculty and graduates explore urgent strategies for protecting journalists in Gaza: www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
In a new project between
@columjournreview.bsky.social and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, CJS faculty and graduates explore urgent strategies for protecting journalists in Gaza: www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
www.cjr.org
August 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📰 Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
In a new project between
@columjournreview.bsky.social and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, CJS faculty and graduates explore urgent strategies for protecting journalists in Gaza: www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
In a new project between
@columjournreview.bsky.social and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, CJS faculty and graduates explore urgent strategies for protecting journalists in Gaza: www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
Reposted by Azmat Khan
Urgent ideas for defending press freedom in Gaza, the world’s deadliest place for journalists. By @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social, and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
www.cjr.org
August 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Urgent ideas for defending press freedom in Gaza, the world’s deadliest place for journalists. By @azmatzahra.bsky.social, @meghnadbose.bsky.social, and @laurenwatsonjourno.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
Reposted by Azmat Khan
It's out!
The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War
Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social.
We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War
Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social.
We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It's out!
The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War
Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social.
We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War
Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social.
We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Grateful for the opportunity to write with @oonahathaway.bsky.social & @azmatzahra.bsky.social + work with @yalelawjournal.bsky.social on "The Dangerous Rise of 'Dual-Use' Objects in War": www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-.... More on data & methods here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
June 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Grateful for the opportunity to write with @oonahathaway.bsky.social & @azmatzahra.bsky.social + work with @yalelawjournal.bsky.social on "The Dangerous Rise of 'Dual-Use' Objects in War": www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-.... More on data & methods here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Reposted by Azmat Khan
“The tactics being pioneered in Gaza – complete information blackouts, attacks on journalists with impunity – risk becoming the new normal unless the international community wakes up to what’s at stake,” @azmatzahra.bsky.social Maurice Oniang'o.
This reporter exposed the civilian toll of US airstrikes. Her warning to colleagues? Be ready for a more hostile world
“The tactics being pioneered in Gaza –blackouts, attacks with impunity– risk becoming the new normal,” says Pulitzer Prize winner Azmat Khan.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“The tactics being pioneered in Gaza – complete information blackouts, attacks on journalists with impunity – risk becoming the new normal unless the international community wakes up to what’s at stake,” @azmatzahra.bsky.social Maurice Oniang'o.
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I spent the last few months reporting across the northern parts of the West Bank, where Palestinians in camps gave extensive accounts of the Israeli military increasingly deploying Gaza’s war tactics, including the IDF using civilians as human shields: nyti.ms/4fZLmTV
Palestinians See Echoes of Israel’s Gaza War in West Bank Raids
West Bank residents say Israeli forces are adopting tactics similar to the ones they are deploying in Gaza, including airstrikes and the use of Palestinians as human shields.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I spent the last few months reporting across the northern parts of the West Bank, where Palestinians in camps gave extensive accounts of the Israeli military increasingly deploying Gaza’s war tactics, including the IDF using civilians as human shields: nyti.ms/4fZLmTV