Bisan Atef Owda in a scene from “It’s Bisan From Gaza, I’m Still Alive After Six Months Of Bombing.” Photo: YouTube screenshot

The pro-Israel, nonprofit entertainment industry organization Creative Community for Peace (CCFP) has called on the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) to revoke an Emmy nomination for a Palestinian journalist and filmmaker who has ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a widely designated terrorist organization.

Bisan Atef Owda was nominated at the 2024 Emmy Awards for News & Documentary with the Qatari-owned media outlet AJ+ in the category of outstanding hard news feature story: short form for their series “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive.” Nominations were announced on July 25 and the winners will be presented in two ceremonies on Sep. 25 and 26 in New York.

Owda won a Peabody Award in June for “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive,” in which she reports from the Gaza Strip and documents what Palestinian civilians are experiencing during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. She dedicated her award to anti-Israel college students protesting on their campuses around the world and those who support a boycott of the Jewish state.

It was first exposed in late July that Owda regularly attended and spoke at PFLP rallies. CCFP told TheWrap that she also hosted events honoring Palestinians injured or killed fighting Israeli soldiers, and in 2018, the PFLP referred to Owda as a member of the Progressive Youth Union of the organization.

Owda also regularly shares anti-Zionist sentiments on social media, such as falsely accusing Israel of committing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. She has referred to Israel as “IsraHell” several times and to the Israel Defense Forces as the “terrorist army of Israelis.” In an Instagram post last week, Owda claimed that Israel was carrying out “massacres every second” in Gaza, and “violating the laws of humanity and the entire universe.” She concluded the post by saying, “Long live our martyrs.”