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Foreign Press Assn in Israel: in West Bank, Israeli forces now attack journalists first, then activists
The Foreign Press Association in Israel has issued a strong protest over attacks by Israeli forces on journalists covering events in the West Bank.
The statement said that journalists have been “harassed, arrested and attacked by the various on site forces before these forces turn their attention to the activists or demonstrators”.
The professional organization of journalists [...]
Resistance and Cooperation at the G20 Summit
Media coverage of this week's G20 summit focused on "violent" protests and police crackdowns, and reporters Brandon Jourdan and Beka Economopoulos certainly found themselves in the middle of the conflict--Jourdan, as well as Jesse Freeston of The Real News network, were attacked outside of the summit.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged arrest, brandon jourdan, Community Video, G20, jesse freeston, police, police brutality, protest, reporters, The Real News Network, toronto, Video Leave a comment
Gideon Levy: self-censorship is worse than censorship
Haaretz author Gideon Levy was interviewed by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa on free expression for journalists in Israel. The interview is published in Haaretz,
In it, Levy tells Vargas Llosa that “The media in Israel, most of them, are the biggest collaborators to the occupation”.
Here are some excerpts:
Question (Mario Vargas Llosa): Would you say [...]
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged censorship, Gideon Levy, Human Rights, Israel, Israeli occupation, journalism, Journalism and Journalists, Mario Vargas Llosa, media, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions Leave a comment
Violence was used on all the Flotilla ships + afterwards too
In the aftermath of the Israeli raid on Freedom Flotilla that began before dawn on Monday, we were informed that the only one of the six ships on which there had been violence was the large Turkish-owned passenger ship Mavi Marmara (carrying at least 600 persons, including one baby, and almost the entire accompanying press [...]
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Israel, freedom flotilla, Gaza, Haneen Zoabi, Haneen Zuabi, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Nachman Shai, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions, Tasers, turkey Leave a comment
Report: 100 journalists denied Israeli GPO press credentials this year
The head of the Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Israel — a grouping of recognized journalists working for international media — has just reported that over 100 journalists were denied Israeli GPO press credentials this year.
In the interest of full disclosure, that means 99 others, and me
Conny Mus is the president of the FPA. [...]
It’s Friday – Bili’n and Nil’in are (update) not-so-Closed Military Zones
It’s Friday — and now we know that the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Nil’in, who have had weekly demonstrations for years, every Friday after the noon prayers, against The Wall that has taken so much of their lands are Closed Military Zones.
That means: by Israeli military order, no non-residents (not other Palestinians, not [...]
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged activists, Bil'in, Boundaries & Borders, closed military zone, Human Rights, IDF, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, military order, Nil'in, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall Comments closed
On Journalism – the press corps as “courtiers”
The very estimable journalist Chris Hedges wrote in an article published by Truthdig on 1 February: “ ‘The very notion that on any given story all you have to do is report what both sides say and you’ve done a fine job of objective journalism debilitates the press’, the late columnist Molly Ivins once wrote. [...]
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Chris Hedges, Ethan Bronner, Israel, Jonathan Cook, journalism, Journalism and Journalists, media business, New York Times, objectivity, Palestine & Palestinians Comments closed
Meanwhile, in the West Bank city of Nablus