EJC to Reuters: Fire the Journo Who Sent Pro-Palestinian Email
September 26, 2011 12:16 by Pesach BensonThe European Jewish Congress was recently roiled by a message allegedly from the Reuters email address of Svebor Kranjc, a Dutch camerman and picture editor, supporting the Palestinian statehood bid.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the email — which was responding to an EJC press release against the unilateral Palestinian statehood push — said:
“I am going to support it!” the e-mail read, referring to the UN statehood bid. “You have your state but you don’t want others to have their state. So sad . . . ”
In an exclusive email to HonestReporting, Flo Kaufmann, chairman of the the EJC council explained why her organization is pushing for Kranjc’s dismissal:
The impartiality of journalist as observers, is a long held convention of the democracy code.
In my view, it is totally inappropriate for a journalist working for a news media company such as Reuters, and using their headed notepaper or e mails, to express views which clearly compromise his or her impartiality. If the alleged incident to which you refer is found to be substantiated, the journalist in question ought to find his job in jeopardy. The President of The European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, has requested that he be sacked on the grounds that his position as an impartial journalist, and commentator on affairs, has clearly been compromised. Indeed the journalist has not only compromised himself, but the respected and long established organisation for which he works, has arguably been brought into disrepute.
I understand the alleged incident is being investigated and I look forward to hearing whether or not it is verified, and if it is I urge Reuters to take appropriate and strong action.
A Reuters spokesperson confirmed to the JPost that an internal investigation is under way.
Colette Brownell
4:44 pm
Sep 26, 2011
Anti Israel propaganda in the form of oversimplification of misinformation has reached alarming proportions, as I have witnessed on Facebook and in the South African media
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I agree with Moshe Kantor; this kind of journalism is anything but impartial.
Ms C. Brownell
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Josephine Bacon
4:15 pm
Sep 27, 2011
More importantly, why don’t you expose the BBC bias and name the Syrian and the journalists married to Palestinians who have crucial control of the BBC’s foreign news output? They are the real reason why the BBC wasted thousands of pounds of taxpayer’s money in suppressing the famous report into its Middle East coverage.
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PHILT
5:58 pm
Sep 27, 2011
I’M TIRED OF THIS 2000 YR.BATTLE- WHEN WILL THE W3ORLD REALIZE THAT ISRAEL
HAS CONTRIBUTED MORE TO HUMANITY and GOOD LIFE THAN THE REST OF THE ENTIRE
MIDDLE EAST NATIONS HAS EVER ACCOMPLISHED !!
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Beverly Kurtin
6:12 pm
Sep 27, 2011
Ben Franklin once said, “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.”
FACTS do not work with people who have already made up their minds. You can overwhelm them with the true facts of a given situation and they will still stick with their original belief. The sad thing is that as Jews and Israelis, we cooperate with the BIG LIES that Arabs have used over the decades that tend to make people believe that we agree with the lies that are told about us.
We say “Palestinians” when we all know that there never was a people by that name until 1967 and we say “West Bank” instead of Judea and Samaria. WHY? The Arabs want the world to believe that they are an ancient people who were in the land the ROMANS called Palestine. A lie created in 1967 is “ancient?”
I NEVER use either of those terms above when talking to someone about the situation we are in. And I always try to use EMOTION they can understand
a Jewish state. They consider every millimeter of Israel as being “occupied.” Israel is not occupying any Arab land. They can claim that Israel is the monster state, that Israel is apartheid, that Israel uses blood of Christian children to make matzos. They lie like rugs.
I have the misfortune of living in Texas. I say misfortune because Texans keep “hiring” who they do as governor. The only good thing about him is that he is pro-Israel.
Texas is a huge state, yes? Some of our counties are larger than some states. There has always been friendly competition between Tarrant County, where I live, and Dallas County. Fort Worth is the country seat and claims, rightfully, that it is where the West begins. The two counties border each other.
Let’s suppose for some reason or another that Dallas County suddenly attacked Tarrant County because they have never recognized Tarrant County’s right to exist. Instead of sending in troops, they just shoot rockets into the civilian areas of the cities in Tarrant.
Nobody says a word against Dallas County for its unlawful incursions into Tarrant County. Governor God Hair ignores what is happening until the instant that Tarrant County drops leaflets telling the Dallas people to take cover, the Tarrant County troops are about to attack. All of a sudden, Governor Good Hair says, “Whoa! Tarrant County, you are bad people. Pull back your troops and apologize to Dallas County.
Let’s carry this on in real life. Tarrant County is responsible for killing 350 Dallasites. Dallas, on the other hand, is responsible for having murdered 1,500 Tarrant County residents. Who gets censored? Why Tarrant County, of course.
Governor Good Hair says that the Dallas people have the right to kill as many Tarrant people as they want but Tarrant County people can’t touch Dallas.
Is that fair? IS THAT FAIR? Of course it isn’t. But that is exactly what is happening in the Middle East. The Arabs want a state of their own. They have turned down their own state so many times it isn’t even funny. They will NOT recognize Israel, they lie like rugs when they say that Israel is apartheid and guilty of ethnic cleansing when the facts show that Israel is FAR from being apartheid and all Arab states exclude Jews from owning land or even entering the land they claim for themselves.
Whatever state or city you are in, you can use that example. People can understand local rivalries they can barely understand what is going on in the Middle East. Israel is ready to accept peace with the Arabs, but the Arabs are still fighting over who stole who’s goat in 1567, so I believe with all my heart, there is no chance of peace ever breaking out there.
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Brent Pudsey
7:06 pm
Sep 27, 2011
Reuters needs to use more judgement and not publish biased journalism which conceals facts and in doing so causes tension and strife.
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sav'ta shel Cohen
6:14 am
Oct 09, 2011
Kranjc obviously has no knowledge of history or of the facts. He is a cameraman and a picture editor who has been far too greatly influenced by dodgy, misleading images – like so many others in the world. He has some hide sending such an email to the EJC and by implication made his intent known i.e. to be disrespectful and carry out an act of symbolic violence against Jews! Unfortunately, although journalists should be telling us about what is going on in the world and not telling us what to think about what is going on in the world most media outlets have proven time and time again that they are not impartial when it comes to the Jewish people or the State of Israel! Kranjc should be black listed so badly that he will never again even be employed to shoot photographs of cheap gardening tools for discount store catalogues! My bet is that Reuters will give him a paid holiday for a while and will excuse his behaviour by coming up with some unbelievable excuse as to how his email got sent to the EJC!
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