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
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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Thursday, 25 June 2009
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