by Bassam Tawil • March 13,
2017
- Nasser Abu Baker, Chairman of the
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), who also works as a correspondent
for Agence France-Press (AFP), also lashed out at Al-Quds for
publishing the Israeli advertisement. "We are determined to combat
normalization and those who promote it," he vowed.
- Abu Baker, who recently ran in the
election for the Fatah Revolutionary Council, is the architect of the PJS
campaign to boycott Israeli journalists and media outlets. His political
activism constitutes a flagrant violation of the regulations and
principles of AFP, and a conflict of interest. However, this does not seem
to bother his employers at the French news agency, who apparently do not
see a problem with one of their employees running in the election for
Fatah's Revolutionary Council.
- Abu Baker and his colleagues have one
mission: to "combat normalization" with Israel. For them, this
task far exceeds in importance exposing financial corruption in the
Palestinian Authority (PA) or reporting about assaults on freedom of
expression. It is also evidently more important than protesting the
arbitrary arrest and torture of their colleagues at the hands of the PA
and Hamas.
- One can only imagine the response of the
Western mainstream media if the chairman of the Israeli Journalists Union
or the Government Press Office called for a boycott of Palestinian
journalists.
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