The UK's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has strongly condemned the abduction of BBC reporter Alan Johnston in Gaza more than a month ago. Delegates voted unanimously to support the campaign to free him at their annual conference in Birmingham.
Funny about that NUJ, seems they are very much into the Israel-Arab conflict. Tom Gross is reporting:-
For the first time, Britain's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) voted to boycott a country, and that country is Israel. The vote was taken late yesterday afternoon by delegates representing different branches of the NUJ.
Just to show what disregard British (and indeed most European) journalists have for the truth about Israel "The motion called for the end of Israeli aggression in Gaza." In case they haven't noticed, Israel withdrew from Gaza in the summer of 2005, and indeed is maintaining a ceasefire even while Palestinian rockets continue to be fired from Gaza on an almost daily basis into Israel, aimed at civilians.
The NUJ motion also spoke of "last year's war in Lebanon." Of course there was a war in Israel too, where hundreds of civilians were killed and injured by Hizbullah rockets, but the National Union of Journalists seems not to have noticed.
Indeed the absence of those evil Israelis in Gaza has given free reign for the journalists' beloved Palestinians to kill and intimidate and kidnap who they want. One of the latest kidnap victims is the BBC's Alan Johnston, who no longer had the Israeli army there to protect him.
If British journalists really want to boycott Israeli goods, they better give up their desktop and notebook computers and their mobile (cell) phones, all of which have components developed and manufactured in Israel.
I checked. The text of the resolutions are on page 18 of this agenda booklet.
The Israel Insider, now that I have done a search, has it up, too. Ah, and Arutz 7 from yesterday.
Well, this action for boycott really ought to get Alan released. First, Alan's father said his son was a "friend" of the Pals. Now, all of Alan's friends are friends of the Pals.
Dinky-dory. (Hunky-dory means all fine) and in my neighborhood slang, dinky-dory meant just the opposite.
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UPDATE
Now that there's an Arab claim that he's been killed, unconfirmed as yet, will the NUJ now boycott "Palestine" or at least Gaza or something?
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