By Karishma Patel (above), re-posted from social media

I want to make one thing clear. I left BBC News last year after covering Gaza for months because I could see evidence accumulating into the robust conclusion that Israel has been committing war crimes & crimes against humanity. 

I watched my org fail to shape coverage around this, as it does with other evidence-based findings (e.g. that climate change is real). We are long past the point at which Israel’s culpability is up for debate, just as we’re past debating that climate change is happening. 

Too many mistake constant debate for good journalistic practice. Journalists need to be coming to evidence-based conclusions. Reaching conclusions after thorough investigation doesn’t make me “biased”, it makes me good at my job. 

As the old saying goes, the journalist’s job isn’t to report that it may or may not be raining – it’s to look outside and tell the public if it is. And let me tell you: there’s a storm.