The conservative journalists were canceled after a college student from Oregon complained. That’s just perfect.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
America’s ‘Largest Media Conference’ Replaces Canceled Conservative Reporters With Think Tank Researcher Working To Boycott IsraelThe organizers of MediaFest, billed as “the largest media conference” in the country, canceled two conservative journalists scheduled to speak this week at a seminar on faith and religion—and replaced them with a researcher from an anti-Israel think tank who has lobbied officials in Maryland to enact BDS policies and label Israel an “apartheid state.”MediaFest, organized by the Society of Professional Journalists and two college media groups, disinvited Mary Margaret Olohan, the White House correspondent for the Daily Wire, and Daily Signal reporter Virginia Allen from its “Faith Central” program, which focuses on journalism related to faith and religion. The move came after an Oregon State University student objected to their reporting on LGBT, abortion, and immigration issues.In response, MediaFest amended its schedule to add speakers from diverse religious backgrounds. “We even have a Muslim coming,” an organizer told Columbia Journalism Review.That speaker is Erum Ikramullah, a senior research project manager at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), an anti-Israel think tank funded by liberal charities like the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Tides Foundation. Ikramullah will speak on a “Faith Central” panel on Friday regarding “story ideas tied to religion on your campus,” according to a schedule for the conference, held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C.ISPU has been highly critical of Israel in its war against Hamas. Dalia Mogahed, an ISPU scholar and former director of its research division, justified Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel as legal “resistance” against a “colonial occupation force.”Ikramullah, who worked under Mogahed and has authored reports on “Islamophobia” at colleges, has personally lobbied Maryland officials against Israel, according to emails that county officials released last year.In January 2024, Ikramullah petitioned commissioners in Howard County, Maryland, to “consider officially recognizing Israel as an Apartheid State” and to support “a policy of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.”
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