On Sept. 16, 2016, the U.S. State Department listed a man named Fathi Hammad as a “specially designated global terrorist.” At first glance the classification of Hammad, a senior leader of terror group Hamas, may seem to be unordinary. Yet, it should be newsworthy to one Washington, D.C.-area museum, the Newseum, which has memorialized as “fallen journalists” those who worked for a propaganda arm which Hammad created for Hamas: Al-Aqsa TV.
The Newseum claims it “educates the public about the value of a free press in a free society” and “promotes, explains and defends free expression and the five freedoms of the First Amendment: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.” With this in mind, the Newseum created a memorial that recognizes “men and women who died or were killed while reporting the news.”
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