Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fiona O’Brien | Reuters/Yahoo! | 8 April 2004 BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The brother of a Spanish journalist killed by U.S. troops in Baghdad on April 8 last year laid flowers in the Iraqi capital in his memory on Thursday and demanded those responsible be brought to account. Jose Couso, a cameraman with Spanish television
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Union of Journalists | 8 April 2004 Journalists’ organizations worldwide marked the anniversary of the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by US forces with a fresh call for the United States to release vital information about what happened in a number of incidents in which journalists and media staff were killed.
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters/Yahoo! | 22 March 2004 LONDON (Reuters) – An American soldier who killed Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana in Iraq was justified in opening fire, a U.S. army report said on Monday. The report, made public seven months after Dana died, found that the soldier’s “decision to fire at Mr. Dana, though tragic and regrettable,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al Jazeera.Net | 19 March 2004 A group of Arab journalists outraged after US soldiers shot dead two colleagues walked out of a press conference held by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in protest. A representative of the Iraqi media read out a statement on Friday at the start of the news conference,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Heather Wokusch | YellowTimes | 16 February 2004 If the first casualty of war is truth, then the War on Terror has dealt a body blow to those trying to get at the bottom of the story: journalists. The press watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has noted a sharp jump in attacks on journalists
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) NUJ | 19 February 2004 “…we also have a duty to defend the rights of our members, including the fundamental right to trade union representation within the framework of the established and agreed procedures.” The National Union of Journalists has always strongly defended the BBC as a public service broadcaster, and will continue to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Times Higher Education Supplement | 23 June 2006 Israeli scholars have either collaborated in the occupation or turned a blind eye. They deserve a boycott, argues Lisa Taraki Although Menahem Milson’s career path and mine have been on a collision course, we have never met. In 1976, I joined Birzeit University
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hugh Muir | The Guardian | 26 May 2007 Leading British architects have accused their counterparts in Israel of complicity in schemes that contribute to the “social, political and economic oppression of Palestinians”. The architects, including Will Alsop, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac, Royal Institute of British Architects president Jack Pringle and president-elect Sunand Prasad,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dalya Markovich | Haaretz | 15 July 2005 “Akademia besviva mishtana” (“Academia in a Changing Environment: Higher Education Policy in Israel, 1952-2004) by Ami Volansky, Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Shmuel Neeman Institute, 422 pages, NIS 88 University students are a minority group in Israel. But compared to students in other countries on an economic par
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Ratner | Haaretz | 17 May 2005 Several dozen Jewish and Arab students protested Tuesday morning at Haifa University against an academic conference titled “The Demographic Problem and Israel’s Demographic Policies” that they described as racist. The students, prevented by campus security personnel from entering the auditorium where the conference was being held,
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