Associated Press Reporter Out After Conservatives Flag Pro-Palestine Activism in College [View all]
Source: mediaite
Reporter Emily Wilder, who joined the Associated Press last month, is no longer working at the company, Mediaite has confirmed. Her departure comes after a chapter of the College Republicans flagged her involvement in a pro-Palestine group while in college, as well as comments she made about Israel and Palestine. Reached for comment, a representative for the AP told Mediaite, “Emily Wilder no longer works for the AP. We refrain from commenting on personnel matters.”
On Monday, the Stanford College Republicans highlighted Wilder’s past involvement in pro-Palestine activism and tweeted screenshots from social media accounts purporting to belong to Wilder, who is Jewish and grew up in an Orthodox community in Phoenix. The thread notes that Wilder once belonged to Students for Justice in Palestine, which has more than 200 chapters across North America. The group also took issue with Wilder’s descriptions of late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson as a “naked mole rat” and Ben Shapiro as a “little turd.”
The Stanford College Republicans also claim that Students for Justice in Palestine has “ties to Hamas affiliates,” though the conservative group did not elaborate. Subsequently, Fox News and The Federalist ran stories describing Wilder as being “anti-Israel.”
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