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WHIA- Washington Examiner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pro-Palestinian groups and journalists are readying a rally to shut down the annual\u00a0White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner<\/a>\u00a0Saturday at the Washington Hilton over the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the\u00a0Gaza-Hamas crisis.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cShut down the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner,\u201d one group, the Party for\u00a0Socialism<\/a> and Liberation, said in an online message. They are calling for protesters to gather down the street from the hotel two hours before the glitzy dinner begins.<\/p>\n

Another group, the\u00a0Committee to Protect Journalists,<\/a>\u00a0is urging a boycott by White House reporters who suspend their arms-length relationship with Biden aides for a night of elbow rubbing at the so-called \u201cnerd prom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner is an embodiment of media manipulation, trading journalistic ethics for access. For journalists to fraternize at an event with President Biden and Vice President Harris would be to normalize, sanitize, and whitewash the administration\u2019s role in genocide,\u201d said the committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Palestinian journalists, we urgently appeal to you, our colleagues globally, with a demand for immediate and unwavering action against the\u00a0Biden administration<\/a>\u2019s ongoing complicity in the systematic slaughter and persecution of journalists in Gaza. We insist you publicly boycott the upcoming White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner on April 27 as an act of solidarity with us \u2014 your fellow journalists \u2014 as well as with the millions of Palestinians currently being starved in Gaza due to the Biden administration\u2019s continued political, financial, and military backing of Israel and cut-off of funding for live-saving humanitarian aid,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

It is unclear if the protesters organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation plan to march on the Hilton. The group has played a role in the public protests on college campuses this week.<\/p>\n

One hint they do plan to march to the hotel is that participants have been encouraged to bring noisemakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoin in shutting down the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner and honoring Palestinian journalists,\u201d said the group.<\/p>\n

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Pro-Palestinian protests aim to \u2018shut down\u2019 Biden, journalist \u2018Nerd Prom\u2019<\/a><\/blockquote>