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NUJ: A Dissenting Israeli View

See Zev Chafets for a counter-intuitive reaction to the NUJ boycott: Israel, I believe, should not only respect the British boycott, but join it. There are some journalists who – while prepared to forego Israeli…

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See Zev Chafets for a counter-intuitive reaction to the NUJ boycott:

Israel, I believe, should not only respect the British boycott, but join it.

There are some journalists who – while prepared to forego Israeli dairy products and such – will find it difficult to break their habit of access to the story. The government of Israel can make this easier by removing temptation. It should ask all British correspondents stationed in Israel to leave, either by way of Ben Gurion Airport or, if they prefer, via Gaza.

And it should withhold visas and accreditation from members of the National Union of British Journalists (and the media companies that employ NUBJ members) until the journalists of Britain decide to resume at least the fiction of impartiality.

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