Israeli journalists pull out of IFJ
The Israel Association of Journalists decided on Thursday to suspend its membership in the International Federation of Journalists to protest the association’s condemnation of Israel’s attacks on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television network. (Website down)
In a strongly worded letter, the Israeli journalists accused IFJ general secretary Aidan White of “cowardice” for not retracting the organization’s condemnation of Israel and said White deserved a “badge of shame” for calling the Hizbullah propaganda tool “free press.”
“Al Manar gets its budget from the same people firing upon us,” said the Israeli representative on the IFJ executive, Israel Radio broadcaster Yaron Enosh.
“They are not journalists, they are terrorists and I won’t be a member of the same organization as terrorists.”
Enosh told The Jerusalem Post that the IFJ’s defense of Al-Manar was the straw that broke the camel’s back after three years of repeated IFJ condemnations of Israel. He said the organization made no comment when five Israeli and foreign journalists were harmed by Hizbullah fire.
Source: Gil Hoffman, The Jerusalem Post
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Fair enough. If I belonged to the Israel Association of Journalists I would’nt have put up with that treatment either.
Comment by Grant (NZ) — August 1, 2006 @ 12:50 am