There has been a purge at Haaretz. New owners of the newspaper are
slowly but surely =91weeding out=92 the only voices of truth and reason in
the Israeli press=85. so typical of what has been going on generally in
the =91free world of censor****p=92.
I received the following via email today=85 it tells it all.. it was
written by Edward C. Corrigan, a lawyer (Immigration and Refugee Law)
living in London, Ontario, Canada. It=92s a MUST read=85.
Putsch being carried out among re****ting staff at Haaretz
by Ed Corrigan
A new German owner has purchased Haaretz and a =93Putsch is being
carried out among re****ting staff,=94 in the most im****tant and liberal
Zionist paper in Israel. According to inside sources, the new owner
has carried out a rough, sittingroom survey that revealed that =93the
occupation doesn=92t sell newspapers=94 and they are therefore
concentrating on the business world (ie. The Marker). Twilight Zone,
Gideon Levy=92s regular Friday column, has been scrapped, Amira Hass has
been degraded to freelance on half salary, Meron Rapa****t has been
fired and Akiva Eldar has lost at least one half page a week.
The paper frequently allowed journalists critical of the Israeli
occupation to publish articles that exposed the reality of the
occupation to be exposed to the Israeli population and was circulated
around the world. The new editorial direction is disturbing news.
Haaretz was one of the few decent Israeli media outlets and showed
that in Israel there was some respect for freedom of the press and
critical discussion. This is a repeat of the situation when Conrad
Black bought the Jerusalem Post and hired an Israeli censor to be
publisher. The decent journalists all quit in protest, including Benny
Morris back when he still had a moral conscience.
It reflects a more disturbing trend. Norman Finkelstein was recently
denied entry into Israel and the West Bank. Bishop Desmond Tutu was
denied entry into Israel too. Prominent Palestinian journalists are
routinely denied exit visas by t he Israelis to leave the Occupied
Territories to go on speaking tours and a group of Palestinians
students from Gaza were also recently denied exit visas to attend
American universities after being granted Fulbright Scholar****ps from
the American Government.
It appears that the Israelis are closing down many if not all of the
sources of critical information coming out of Israel. The hypocrisy of
it all is that Israel complains that when the British Academic Union
proposes a boycott of Israeli academic institutions as a way to
pressure Israel and to protest Israel=92s policies toward the
Palestinians the Israelis start to scream that the proposed boycott is
a violation of freedom of speech and a violation of academic freedom.
Israeli authorities have been cru****ng academic freedom and free
speech for Palestinians, and even Israeli critics, for decades. Israel
does not want its own population and the rest of the world to know
what it is doing to the Palestinians.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/
Mirelle
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