Posted on April 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Here’s a photo by French journalist Emilie Baujard, taken at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport at midday today, showing press technicians waiting for the arrival of any Air Flotilla participants who managed to slip through the barriers at European airports before boarding flights to Ben Gurion today. Hundreds of tickets were cancelled at the request of [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 4th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Barak Ravid, who reports for Haaretz, Tweeted late on 4 April: “I obtained a draft of the letter that Palestinian President Abbas is planning to give PM Netanyahu next week … In the letter Abbas will accuse the Netanyahu government of undermining Palestinian Authority” – article posted here“… Then, Ravid sent out Tweets with scans [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on February 28th, 2012 by Marian Houk
It was reported this afternoon that the two journalists wounded in Baba Amr quarter of Homs, Syria last week [in the same "Media Center" where Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik died in shelling that their satellite phone use very probably helped target], were “smuggled” out — and that 13 Avaaz activists died in the operation. [...]
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Filed under: French, Journalism and Journalists, Syria
Posted on February 25th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Who or What is Ahvaaz [Avaaz]? And, why do veteran combat journalsts working for major news organizations trust Avaaz with their lives in getting into, and when inside, the Baba Amr quarter of Homs, Syria, which has been beseiged by the Syrian army on a mission to exterminate “Islamist terrorism”? Ahvaaz [Avaaz]: The name of [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Syria, Turkey, USA
Posted on February 23rd, 2012 by Marian Houk
Marie Colvin said in November 2010: “War reporting has changed greatly in just the last few years. Now we go to war with a satellite phone, laptop, video camera and a flak jacket. I point my satellite phone to south southwest in Afghanistan, press a button and I have filed”. When she made that remark, [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2012 by Marian Houk
Described with rough affection on Twitter this morning as one of “the most badass journalists of all time”, veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin, an American working for the Sunday Times, died in war this morning – in a shelling on a “Media Center” or “safe house” in the Baba Amr district of Homs, where some [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2012 by Marian Houk
A terrible traffic accident — a crash between a fuel truck and a school bus carrying Palestinian schoolkids from Shuafat Refugee Camp to a park near Ramallah — happened on Thursday morning at 9am in rainy weather in a heavily-trafficked area of the near West Bank, not far from Jerusalem. It is an area where [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
My Mentor, who shall be known as “Promeneur” until he authorizes otherwise, has sent a correction to a description I wrote about Rosa Luxemburg, in my post on Donor Opium [a film critical of Palestinian dependence on donor aid, which was sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation]. He wrote [from London, via email]: “Starved to [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Human Rights, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on December 24th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Here is a tale that illustrates a number of things. Nablus, 3:30 pm on a sunny and relatively quiet Friday afternoon, at the entry to the city: an unmarked black SUV-type van, with very dark windows, was parked at 90 degree angle to road. The unmarked black van had a Palestinian Authority [PA] license or [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Amira Hass has written this, or things like this, in Haaretz before. But, it’s like Picasso’s Blue period — she keeps trying to explain what she sees, over and over again, until she finally captures its essence. [I have sometimes explained what I'm doing in the same way...] It isn’t that this time she finally [...]
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