When Israel began bombing Gaza on October 7, Egyptian journalists draped a Palestinian flag on the front door of their syndicate to express solidarity with a besieged population. Inside, they hung pictures of 60 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel on their walls to honour them.
“All mobilisation creates an area surrounding it that opens spaces to other movements everywhere,” Khaled El-Balshy, the elected syndicate head, told Al Jazeera. “Therefore, any mobilisation, any possibility for space, it’s a mobilisation that we must stand for. The role of the syndicate is to try to create a safe space for expression.”
