The hoped for revival and democratisation of the Palestinian journalists union – with the support of the International Federation of Journalists - seems to have collapsed in a heap. Journalists in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are angrily…
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Human rights group joins calls to delay Palestinian journalist union elections
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A Gaza-based Palestinian human rights group has joined the growing calls to delay historic elections for leadership positions in the Palestinian journalists’ union. Nominations for the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) elections closed on Monday (February 1, 2010). Challenges to the…
Female journalists demand union representation
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Dozens of female journalists from Gaza rallied on Sunday in front of the office of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate in Gaza City, demanding that membership be opened up to women. Journalist Dunya Isma’il called on the PJS to introduce a…
Call to postpone Palestinian journalists’ congress due to political interference
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The International Federation of Journalists has called for a postponement of a historic Palestinian journalists’ union congress, because of undue political interference. The Palestinian Journalist Syndicate announced on Wednesday that nominations were open for its leadership and a long overdue…
Journalist unions in Israel, Palestine and across globe condemn Israel’s action against Bethlehem-based journalist
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Journalist unions in Palestine, Israel and their global union federation, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) , have joined together in a call to denounce the detention of Jared Malsin, the American editor-in-chief of the English-language section of the Bethlehem-based…
Journalist global union votes to reinstate Israeli union membership
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The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) meeting in London at the weekend ( Nov 14/15 2009) voted to rescind the expulsion of the National Federation of Israel Journalists (NFIJ), ending a six-month dispute over payment of…
Italian journalists stand up for their ousted Israeli colleagues
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The National Federation of Israeli Journalists (NFIJ) has accepted an invitation by the Italian National Press Federation (NFSI) to meet, either in Rome or in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, to negotiate a solution that will reintegrate Israel into the International…
Italian journalists show solidarity with expelled Israeli union - offer to mediate
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The Jerusalem Post reports , in another update to this issue, that the Italian journalist union has now offered to mediate a return to the International Federation of Journalists by their Israeli counterparts. The 101 year old Italian journalists union …
IFJ and National Federation of Israeli Journalists
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The dispute over the the journalists global union federation expelling their Israeli sisters and brothers continues to attract a lot of attention in cyberspace. For the 2nd day in a row the International Federation of Journalists have issued a statement…
Israeli journalists union kicked out of international federation
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According to a report in The Journalist, the magazine of the National Union of Journalists in the UK , the Israeli journalists union has been expelled from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) following a unanimous vote by the IFJ…