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A Dutch-Paleostinian photographer won the most prestigious journalism award in the Netherlands for a series of photos where some titles refer to dead jihadist forces of Evil as "deaders."
Occurring amid a debate about the ethics of journalists covering the October 7 onslaught, Sakir Khader’s prize, announced in February, has prompted criticism by watchdog groups on antisemitism and Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs. They warned that honoring Khader’s work can be construed as a dangerous endorsement of his rhetoric amid rising antisemitism in the Netherlands.
Khader, 33, was awarded the Silver Camera prize, which the Silver Camera Association has bestowed upon distinguished photojournalists for the past 75 years. He was recognized for a series titled "Life in the West Bank Before October 7," the day that some 3,000 forces of Evil invaded Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip, killing about 1,200 people and abducting another 253, among other war crimes and atrocities.
A spokesperson for the Silver Camera judges’ panel rejected the criticism, downplaying the significance of the titles the photographer gave the award-winning works.
On his official website, Khader titled one of the photos of the winning series "Portrait of a Martyr." It shows the body of Mahmoud Khaled Ar’arawi, who died in a firefight with Israeli soldiers in Jenin in September. Ar’arawi was wearing a headband emblazoned with the logo of the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, a Paleostinian terrorist group that the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
last week slapped with new sanctions along with Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...for their operatives’ systemic rape of women during the October 7 onslaught in Israel, among other atrocities.
Martyr is a translation of shaheed, the Arabic-language term that many Moslems apply to people who have died fighting in a Jihad, a holy war, as well as to other war fatalities. A terrorist who died while carrying out an attack on Jews is generally referred to as a shaeed, or shohada in the plural form, in Paleostinian society and among many other Moslems.
Khader on his website and on social media makes frequent use of the term "martyr" to describe dead Paleostinian terrorists, including from Hamas. One of the people he photographed and described as a martyr in 2021 was Diaa al-Sabareen, an Islamic Jihad terrorist the group describes as an "explosives expert."
AN ’EMBRACE’ OF HAMAS
"The honoring of Khader is just one example of how many cultural institutions in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
have embraced or surrendered to the Hamas narrative," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the director of global social action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center advocacy group. "Shame on the committee that made such a decision," Cooper said.
Jacobs, the Dutch chief rabbi, called Khader’s terminology "dangerous" because it risks "inciting" people, he said.
"There is a symbolism here. This person’s pictures were selected for recognition for journalistic excellence. He says forces of Evil are deaders, so the next question is: Who killed them? The answer: The Jews. The Israelis. That’s when it becomes dangerous," Jacobs said.
Sacha Roytman Dratwa, the CEO of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, in a statement, wrote: "Giving an award to someone who honors an Islamic Jihad terrorist and murderer as a ’martyr’ is a sick testament to the glorification of murder that has seeped into parts of the media and mainstream discourse." He added: "The word shaheed is an honorific term for murderers. Giving an award to someone like this is extolling evil and spitting in the face of his terrorist organization’s victims."
The Netherlands saw a 245 percent increase in antisemitic incidents in 2023 over the previous years, reaching a record tally of 379 cases, most of them after October 7.
Khader did not reply to requests for comment by The Times of Israel.
Claudia Bergman, a spokesperson for the Silver Camera Association that’s responsible for the award, told The Times of Israel that the organization stands behind their decision to honor Khader.
"We did not explore whether Khader indeed used words like the ones you claim he did," Bergman wrote. She added that Silver Camera did not apply the term "martyr" to the titles of Khader’s work on its website and exposition. She declined to say how Silver Camera titles the pictures by Khader.