Israelis renounce membership in world journalist federation

[MrPrax]

Israelis renounce membership in world journalist federation

A group of Israeli journalists on Thursday renounced their membership in the International Federation of Journalists, after the organization's General Secretary refused to retract his condemnation of the Israel Defense Forces' bombing of the Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV station in Beirut.

IFJ General Secretary Aiden White proposed coming to Israel to settle the dispute, but Israeli journalist and IFJ member Yaron Anosh told him that as long as the censure remained in effect, White would be unwelcome in Israel.

The IDF attacked the Hezbollah's TV station shortly after it began its offensive in Lebanon last week. The IFJ said in a statement last weekend that the strike is "a clear demonstration that Israel has a policy of using violence to silence media it does not agree with."

IFJ members in Israel demanded that the censure be lifted immediately and asked why the IFJ did not condemn Hezbollah for firing rockets at Israeli journalists.

After the IFJ refused to nullify its condemnation, the six Israeli members announced their immediate resignation.

Haaretz

Yes...quite a reasonable thing to do, when you don't get your way and you can't dictate the news...just denounce it as a 'terrorist' organization. I guess we can add IFJ to the 'anti-semitic' list now.

[snappyturtle]

1. Aw--whine, whine, whine....Good for the IFJ! nt

[Ian David]

2. I could see why a journalism group would renounce bombing journalists

They really shouldn't been too surprised by that.