Khulood Badawi Finally Fired from UN
February 7, 2013 11:16 by Alex Margolin
Nearly a full year after HonestReporting exposed False Photo Tweeter Khulood Badawi as a staff member of the Jerusalem branch of the UN Office of Coordinated Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UN has concluded its lengthy investigation and removed Badawi from its staff.
Badawi gained attention last March during an uptick in violence between Israel and Hamas that lasted several days. Badawi tweeted a photo of a father carrying a bleeding girl, strongly suggesting that the girl was a victim of an Israeli airstrike that day. The photo, however, was taken in 2006 and had no connection to Israel.
After HonestReporting’s expose started to appear in the press and our petition calling for Badawi’s dismissal began gaining momentum (ultimately reaching 15,000 names), Israel’s Ambassador the UN, Ron Prosor took up the issue, demanding the UN immediately remove Badawi from her post.
The UN responded by launching an investigation into the matter – and sending Badawi on an extended vacation. This week, however, the Jerusalem Post reported that the UN sent out an email announcing that following the investigation, the UN has opted not to renew Badawi’s contract.
The saga of Khulood Badawi proves that grassroots efforts can be successful, even if it takes a year for a final resolution. Even the mighty UN can be moved to action if we maintain our solidarity in our demand for justice.
galia berry
2:55 pm
Feb 07, 2013
Kol hakavod
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richard sandler
5:34 pm
Feb 07, 2013
Typical of what is going on….thank you HONEST REPORTING.
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rachel
5:41 pm
Feb 07, 2013
Great work you are doing, keep on going!!!! Bravo.
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emes
7:35 pm
Feb 07, 2013
Khalood Badawi :
“For the sin we committed in thy sight forcibly or willingly,
And for the sin we committed against thee by acting callously.
For the sin we committed in thy sight knowingly and deceptively
And for the sin we committed against thee by offensive speech.
For the sin we committed in thy sight by fraud and falsehood
For the sin we committed against thee by slander.
For the sin we committed in thy sight by casting off responsibility,
For the sin we committed in thy sight by plotting against men,
For the sin we committed in thy sight by running to do evil,
And the sin we committed against thee by talebearing.
For the sin we committed in thy sight by swearing falsely
To name a few!
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Norma Fares
8:53 pm
Feb 07, 2013
You are a light of Truth, Honest Reporting! Thank you for being in the world of Reporting, Journalism and Media in general and that are all at high stake in the West as well as in the Arabic speaking countries. Good job. Please keep going!
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Harvey Jackson
6:44 pm
Feb 08, 2013
There should be closure to this expose of false photo tweeting. Honest reporting advocacy activists should ensure that their local news media have been made aware of the outcome .
Whilst congratulating the outcome – if the result is lost to history and the dustbin , then basically nothing gained.
Request therefore media exposure not only from the Jerusalem Post . but from all the Press as possible.
HJ.
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UNO: Khulood Badawi endlich gefeuert « Medien BackSpin
9:24 pm
Feb 08, 2013
[...] HonestReporting Media BackSpin, 8. Februar 2013 [...]
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Natalie Roberts
4:51 am
Feb 10, 2013
This is a great result, but needs to get into the prominent newspapers in Europe: England, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Scandinavian countries, if necessary as advertisement/announcements if their editors won’t print this info. It has to be presented as just one example of the dishonest reports coming out of the Palestinian press against Israel. Otherwise, we are not combatting the negatives against Israel, which will not change attitudes. All we are looking for is honesty and objectivity, and giving Israel a fair hearing without prejudice. Good luck to us! I could write a caption for that picture which would get some attention!
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judy
8:34 am
Feb 11, 2013
Honest Reporting -thank you.
It is mind blowing to me that there is so much false news reporting by the media relating to Israel. It seems as if there is a conspiracy amongst all the reporters to paint a black picture of Israel at any cost. I would be the first one to admit that Israel is not perfect…but the waves of pure lies that streams from the biased media is bewildering. The media no longer reports the news, but is on a crusade(the aim of which may be “purity” but so many sins are committed on the way!(The media should take a history lesson)
Keep up your good work.
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Jill
1:17 pm
Feb 20, 2013
Why is it bewildering??
Apart from the usual Jew hatred in Leftist and Islamic circles the media in EU is simply living up to the bargain the EU struck with the Arabs in the early 1970s- to adopt Islamic attitudes to Israel and Jews in exchange for cheap oil – in all cultural outlets; political, educational, legal, media etc.
We’re seeing the results of that bargain today but it was a struck a along time ago, and echoed the alliance struck between the the Nazis, the Muslim brotherhood and later the Leftists.
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Fliss
10:50 pm
Feb 13, 2013
I understand that the UN would want to be thorough but surely they could have taken less than a year to find out that Khulood Badawi had sent a false tweet.
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Michael Kerjman
5:11 pm
Feb 18, 2013
“Finally fired from the UN”-for how long next Badawi not to appear there?
In any case, the UN jobs are not an exemption among work placements hardly demonstrating neutrality and impartiality to the applicants of a Jewish origin.
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