(CAMERA) Sean Durns - On April 15, 2020, the Washington Post published an op-ed entitled "Gaza is an open-air prison. As covid-19 spreads, it's time to life the siege." The author, Tarek Loubani, was identified as an "emergency room doctor" and "associate professor at the University of Western Ontario." In fact, Loubani is a veteran anti-Israel activist. Loubani has worked with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group that sends foreigners to interfere with Israeli counterterrorism efforts, and was deported from Israel in 2003 for obstructing the construction of a security barrier during the height of the Second Intifada terror wave (2000-05). Loubani was arrested in Egypt in 2013 while trying to enter Hamas-ruled Gaza. In 2014, he was detained in Ben-Gurion Airport. And in 2018 he took part in the Hamas-orchestrated Great Return March in Gaza. In his op-ed about Israel's "siege" on Gaza, Loubani fails to mention Hamas once. He merely echoes the U.S.-designated terrorist group's talking points. According to the Post's own standards and guidelines, "No story is fair if it omits facts of major importance or significance." The writer is a senior research analyst for CAMERA.
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