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{{Infobox person
| education = [[Wauwatosa East High School]]<br>
[[University of Wisconsin]] (dropped out)
▲ | occupation = [[Investigative journalist]]
▲ | employer = [[The Intercept]]
▲ | notable_works = ''[[Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army|Blackwater]]''
}}
'''Jeremy Scahill''' (born 1974) is an American activist, author, and [[
| access-date = August 28, 2014▼
| access-date = January 2, 2013▼
|url-status = dead▼
|archive-date = May 11, 2013▼
}}</ref>▼
{{Cite web▼
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170407150027/http://www.nationinstitute.org/fellows/1186/jeremy_scahill/▼
| url-status = dead▼
▲</ref> Scahill learned journalism and started his career on the independently [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] daily news show ''[[Democracy Now!]]''. He publishes a [[podcast]] titled ''Intercepted''.
==Early life==
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| date = May 18, 2012 | access-date = January 2, 2013
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His father grew up on the South Side of Chicago, son of Irish immigrants in a very Catholic family. He had planned to be a seminarian.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jeremy Scahill Remembers His Longtime Friend, Father Daniel Berrigan:
Jeremy attended a few [[University of Wisconsin System|University of Wisconsin regional campuses]] and a local [[technical college]] before deciding that his "time would be better spent by entering the struggle for justice in this country." After [[dropping out]] of college, Scahill spent several years on the East Coast working in [[homeless shelter]]s. He started his career as an unpaid intern at the nonprofit news program ''[[Democracy Now!]]'' of the [[Pacifica Radio]] network. While he was at ''Democracy Now!'', Scahill learned the technical side of radio, and learned "journalism as a trade, rather than an academic study".<ref name="cspan1">{{Cite web
|title = C-SPAN Video Player – Journalist Jeremy Scahill Speech n the Iraq War, Blackwater & WikiLeaks
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Discussing the roots of his activism, Scahill said: "I think we all have to remember something that [[Daniel Berrigan|Dan Berrigan]], the radical [[Catholic priest]], said about [[Dorothy Day]], founder of the [[Catholic Worker movement]]. He said she lived as though the truth were true." And: "Victory is relative when you listen to the powerful. But we have a victory in our midst, because the entire world is on our side. So I say that we call for an end to the death penalty in this country, and we call for an end to the collective death penalty being meted out on the rest of the world by this criminal government."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scahill |first=Jeremy |date=2007-06-22 |title=Confronting empire |url=http://socialistworker.org/2007-2/636/636_08_Scahill.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721165829/http://socialistworker.org/2007-2/636/636_08_Scahill.php |archive-date=2018-07-21 |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=[[Socialist Worker]]}}</ref>
He also worked in 2000 as a producer for [[Michael Moore]]'s TV series ''[[The Awful Truth (TV series)|The Awful Truth]]'' on [[Bravo (U.S. TV channel)|Bravo]].<ref>[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/jeremy-scahill Jeremy Scahill | Speaker Profile and Speaking Topics], apbspeakers.com; accessed December 7, 2015.</ref>
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In October 2013 Scahill joined with reporters [[Glenn Greenwald]] and [[Laura Poitras]] to establish an on-line investigative journalism publishing venture funded by [[eBay]] billionaire [[Pierre Omidyar]].<ref>[http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/5/there_is_a_war_on_journalism '"There is a War on Journalism": Jeremy Scahill on NSA Leaks & New Investigative Reporting Venture'], [[Democracy Now!]], December 5, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2013.</ref> The idea for the new media outlet came from Omidyar's "concern about press freedoms in the US and around the world
| title = Welcome to the Intercept
| year = 2014
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| url = https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/10/welcome-intercept/
| access-date = February 10, 2014
▲ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/
▲ }}</ref>
On November 30, 2013, Scahill refused to participate in a Stop the War Conference in London unless Syrian nun [[Agnes Mariam de la Croix|Mother Agnes]] was dropped from the symposium. Mother Agnes eventually pulled out.<ref>{{Cite web
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On May 9, 2019, the intelligence analyst {{anchor|Daniel Everette Hale}}Daniel Everette Hale was arrested for leaking classified information to a reporter.<ref name=Npr2019-05-09/> The reporter to whom Hale leaked was not explicitly named, but a book-signing at which they met was identified, and reporters concluded that Hale had leaked to Scahill.
In July 2024, Scahill left ''The Intercept'', along with Ryan Grim, to co-found Drop Site News.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-07-08 |title=Scahill and Grim Launch New Media Outlet With The Intercept's Support |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/07/08/scahill-and-grim-launch-new-media-outlet/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240708165329/https://theintercept.com/2024/07/08/scahill-and-grim-launch-new-media-outlet/ |archive-date=2024-07-08 |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=[[The Intercept]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Works==
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| last = Scahill | first = Jeremy
| newspaper = Los Angeles Times
| url =
| date = June 16, 2008 | access-date = January 3, 2013
}}</ref> ''[[Z Magazine]]'',<ref>{{Cite web
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Scahill exposed the presence of Blackwater contractors in New Orleans after [[Hurricane Katrina]] and his reporting sparked a Congressional inquiry and an internal [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] investigation.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = In the Black(water)
| magazine = The Nation
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| url = http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/home-mainmenu-289/6238-made-in-america-the-gardez-massacre
| access-date = August 6, 2013
}}</ref> where U.S. special forces killed two males, including the pro-U.S. local police commander, as well as three females, two of whom were pregnant. An Afghan investigation found signs of evidence tampering, such as bullets being removed from the wall where the women were shot.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/05-Apr-2010/US-special-forces-tried-to-coverup-botched-Khataba-raid-in-Afghanistan-report|title=After denials, US admits Feb. killing of Afghan women|access-date=October 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726073644/http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/international/05-Apr-2010/US-special-forces-tried-to-coverup-botched-Khataba-raid-in-Afghanistan-report|archive-date=July 26, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Several family members of the victims alleged that the special forces subsequently used their knives to dig the bullets out of the bodies and cleaned the resultant wounds to purge any evidence of the U.S. raid.<ref name='NYT 2010-04-05'>{{Cite news▼
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203618/http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/home-mainmenu-289/6238-made-in-america-the-gardez-massacre
▲ | url-status = dead
▲ }}</ref> where U.S. special forces killed two males, including the pro-U.S. local police commander, as well as three females, two of whom were pregnant. An Afghan investigation found signs of evidence tampering, such as bullets being removed from the wall where the women were shot.<ref>{{cite web|url=
| title = Afghan Investigators Say U.S. Troops Tried to Cover Up Evidence in Botched Raid
| last = Oppel | first = Richard A.
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===Abdulelah Haider Shaye===
Scahill has been an advocate for imprisoned Yemeni journalist [[Abdulelah Haider Shaye]]. Scahill's March 13, 2012 article in ''[[The Nation]]'' states that [[Barack Obama|President Obama]] leaned on [[Yemen]] to keep Shaye in jail because of his reporting on the 2009 [[Terrorism in Yemen#US air attacks|Al Ma'jalah bombings]]—Shaye described remnants of U.S. [[Tomahawk (missile family)|Tomahawk missile]]s, although the United States initially denied involvement.<ref name=Scahill13Mar12>{{Cite news
| title = Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?
| last = Scahill | first = Jeremey
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}}</ref> Subsequent English-language reports on the issue have relied on Scahill's journalism.<ref name=world6april12>{{Cite news
| title = Prominent Yemeni Journalist Lands in Jail; US Wants him to Stay There
| last1 = Scahill
| first1 = Jeremey | author2 = Marco Werman
| author3 = Joyce Hackel
| newspaper = The World
| url = http://www.theworld.org/2012/04/prominent-yemeni-journalist-lands-in-jail-us-wants-him-to-stay-there/
| date = April 6, 2012
| access-date = July 19, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230607221939/https://theworld.org/2012/04/prominent-yemeni-journalist-lands-in-jail-us-wants-him-to-stay-there
| url-status = dead
▲ }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
| title = Jeremy Scahill: Why is President Obama Keeping Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye in Prison?
| publisher = democracynow.org
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| access-date = March 16, 2012
}}</ref><ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/white-house-stands-by-obama-push-for-yemeni-journalist-to-remain-behind-bars/ White House Stands By Obama Push for Yemeni Journalist to Remain Behind Bars], ABC News, Retrieved 2012-05-04.</ref>
===Israel's invasion of Gaza===
Scahill has been a critic of Israel's military response in Gaza since the [[7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel|October 7 Hamas attacks]]. Writing for ''[[The Intercept]]'', Scahill argues that the October 7 attacks were a result of a 75-year campaign by Israel, of ethnic cleansing and apartheid in Gaza.<ref name="scahill">{{cite web |author1=Jeremy Scahill |title=Netanyahu's War On Truth |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/02/07/gaza-israel-netanyahu-propaganda-lies-palestinians/ |website=The Intercept |access-date=October 22, 2024 |date=February 7, 2024 |quote=It is also true that if Israel had not engaged in a 75-year campaign of ethnic cleansing and apartheid, there would not have been an October 7}}</ref> According to him, the primary agenda of [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] has long been "the absolute destruction of Palestine and its people".<ref name="scahill"/>
On October 19, 2024, in a guest appearance on [[MSNBC]] with anchor [[Ayman Mohyeldin]], Scahill accused that MSNBC had people on their network who promoted Israeli propaganda.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Jon Queally |title=Voices Against 'Extermination Campaign' in Gaza Call Out to the World: 'This Has to Stop!' |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/voices-against-genocide-in-gaza |website=[[Common Dreams]] |access-date=October 22, 2024 |date=October 20, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |user=AymanMSNBC |number=1847765570998906945 |title=In the days following the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the war in Gaza has not come close to slowing down. @AymanM talks to @jeremyscahill about what the assassination means for the conflict and its influence on ceasefire talks.}}</ref>
== Awards and recognition ==
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Journalists from Chicago]]
[[Category:American activists for Palestinian solidarity]]
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