On Day 7 of the pro-Palestinian protests on the Columbia University campus, Osama Abuirshaid stopped by the student encampment.

The executive director of American Muslims for Palestine walked through the tent city, then made a fiery speech to the gathered crowd.

“This is not only a genocide that is being committed in Gaza,” Abuirshaid said. “This is also a war on us here in America.”

Forty-eight hours later, Abuirshaid appeared at another campus — George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he delivered another speech.

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    24 days ago

    Ran the internal newspaper for a group who funded Hamas.

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      24 days ago

      And Charles was the Prince of Wales before he took the throne. Is that just an interesting factoid, or are we supposed to infer something from it?

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            23 days ago

            Definitely can’t write things where the reader might infer things. That would be outrageous and uncouth!

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              23 days ago

              Correct. If journalists know something as a fact, they should state it, and share the source of that fact. If they don’t know something, but have a guess, they can say that it’s their own inference.

              But to use weasel words to lead the reader to infer things that are not factually supported is, well, not a good look.