The News & Documentary Emmy Awards will not void Palestinian journalist Bisan Atef Owda’s nomination amid activist group outcry over her alleged involvement in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
In a Tuesday letter addressed to Creative Community for Peace executive director Ari Ingel, Adam Sharp — president and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organizing body behind the News & Documentary Emmy Awards — said that “NATAS has been unable to corroborate these reports” of Owda’s involvement in PFLP, “nor has it been able, to date, to surface any evidence of more contemporary or active involvement by Owda with the PFLP organization.”