Al Jazeera suspends two journalists over video downplaying Holocaust

cde.news desk 20 May 2019, 20:45 · 1 min read

FILE- In this Aug. 6, 1945, file photo, survivors of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare are seen as they await emergency medical treatment in Hiroshima, Japan. On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, one on Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used. Their destructive power was unprecedented, incinerating buildings and people, and leaving lifelong scars on survivors, not just physical but also psychological, and on the cities themselves. Days later, World War II was over. (AP Photo, File)

Al Jazeera Media Network has suspended two journalists over a video that downplayed and misrepresented the Holocaust.

The video, published on Al Jazeera’s online Arabic news platform, AJ+, “contravened its editorial standards”, said the network, which is the parent company of aljazeera.com.

Via Al Jazeera

Topics Al Jazeera Holocaust