One can only imagine the international media's reaction had the TV crew been detained by Israeli security forces. Anti-Israel groups and individuals would have cited
Thursday, 25th June 2009
On the wrong side of history
3:25pm
The official death toll is still being generally given as 17, but it would seem that dozens may have been killed in the awful crackdown in Iran. CNN has received unconfirmed reports of 150 deaths. It has also been reported that 70 professors have disappeared. Yesterday, it appears the demonstrators were clubbed down in Tehran’s Baharestan Square by security thugs carrying knives and batons. Opposition activists and international journalists are being rounded up. See this CNN article, and this, and this graphic account with footage on Revolutionary Road. See also this story in today’s Guardian about the appalling treatment meted out to the grieving family of Neda Agha Soltan, whose bloodied face after she was killed earlier this week has become an iconic image of these protests; her family have been forced out of their...So where's the boycott call?
8:39am
Another essential piece by the indispensableKhaled abu Toameh reveals how the Palestinians are committing ‘massive’ abuses of human rights and intimidation of journalists seeking to investigate those abuses – behaviour which is being totally ignored by western media who hang the Israelis out to dry on any pretext. He reports how a Palestinian TV crew was stopped recently at a Palestinian checkpoint in the West Bank – yes, you read that right – where Palestinian soldiers confiscated and erased their tape. The crew had been preparing a report on the death of a detainee at the Palestinian Authority detention center in Hebron that might have been the result of torture. He writes:
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Friday, 26 June 2009
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