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9 July

JournalistKilledUK JOURNALISTS DROP BDS FOR FEAR OF ISRAELI SNIPERS?
On this day in 2007, the National Union of Journalists decided to “take no further action” on implementingan Annual Delegate Meeting vote to boycott Israeli goods and services. (The vote had been criticised by Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger.) The decision was confirmed in 2014 when general secretary Michelle Stanistreet told delegates that journalists working in the Middle East would be put in danger if the motion passed. Israeli snipers have killed many journalists, including British cameraman James Miller

 

صحفيون بريطانيون يتخلون عن مقاطعة إسرائيل خوفا من القناصة الإسرائيليين؟

 9 يوليو

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2007 ، قرر الاتحاد الوطني للصحفيين "عدم اتخاذ أي إجراء آخر" بشأن تنفيذ اجتماع المندوبين السنوي للتصويت على مقاطعة السلع والخدمات الإسرائيلية. (انتقد رئيس تحرير الجارديان ، آلان روسبريدجر فكرة التصويت ) كذلك تم تأكيد القرار في عام 2014 عندما قالت السكرتيرة العامة للاتحاد ميشيل ستانستريت للمندوبين ان حياة الصحفيين العاملين في الشرق الأوسط ستكون في خطر إذا نفذ الاقتراح. هنا لا بد من التذكير ان القناصين الأسرائيليين قتلوا العديد من الصحفيين ، بما في ذلك المصور البريطاني جيمس ميللر.

UN commission: Israeli snipers ‘intentionally shot’ Palestinian journalists in 2018, killing 2

New York, February 28, 2019 — The Israeli government must hold to account everyone responsible for killing Palestinian journalists Yaser Murtaja and Ahmed Abu Hussein in April 2018, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On February 25, 2019, a U.N. independent commission of inquiry saidExternal link it “found reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli snipers shot journalists intentionally.” According to its report, Israeli snipers shot journalists “who were clearly marked as such” in violation of international humanitarian law, killing Murtaja and Abu Hussein.

“The U.N. commission’s report will not bring back Yaser Murtaja and Ahmed Abu Hussein, but it makes crystal clear that the responsibility for their deaths, and for achieving any measure of justice, lies with Israeli authorities,” CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour said from Washington, D.C. “As a democracy, Israel maintains civilian control of its armed forces and must ensure that they respect international law, which classifies journalists as civilians.”

Last year, CPJ wrote a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling the killings of Palestinian journalists “part of a pattern” and urging an immediate and credible investigation. CPJ has not received any response to the letter.

Motion passed in April 2007
The National Union of Journalists voted to boycott all Israeli goods for ‘aggression’in Palestinian territories.
After almost an hour of debate at today’s Annual Delegate’s Meeting in Birmingham, the conference voted 66 to 54 in favour of the ban. The controversial clause was part of a motion proposed by Mick Gosling, of the Press and PR branch, and called for the union to ‘condemn the savage, pre-planned attack on Lebanon’last summer and the ‘slaughter of civilians in Gaza’over the last few years.
Paragraph four read: ‘That [this] ADM calls for a boycott of Israeli goods similar to those boycotts in the struggles against apartheid South Africa led by trade unions and the TUC to demand sanctions be imposed on Israel by the British government.”

The backlash against the motion was supported by Jon Snow
Journalists have reacted with anger to the ADM's controversial decision on Friday to boycott Israeli goods — but the author of the motion said he was standing firm.

The union passed a motion which condemned the "savage pre-planned attack on Lebanon" and which agreed to organise a series of boycotts of Israeli goods similar to those imposed against Apartheid-era South Africa.

The motion, proposed by Mick Gosling of the Press and PR branch, was merged with another submitted by South Yorkshire branch also calling for an Israeli boycott due to the country's "slaughter" of Palestinian civilians and the country's "aggression in Gaza and other occupied territories".