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Aktueller Newsletter der Deutschen Journalisten Union in Berlin verschweigt den mit großer Mehrheit angenommenen Antrag zur Aufhebung der Sanktionen gegen @hussedogru & @djuverdi-Bundesvorstand weist den Antrag und die darin enthaltene Aufforderung öffentlich zurück.
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Die Deutsche Journalisten Union Berlin (@djuverdi) hat ihren neuen Newsletter verschickt (siehe Screenshot anbei). Mit keiner Silbe wird der durchaus bahnbrechende Entscheid der Mitgliederversammlung vom 15. August erwähnt, welche mit großer Mehrheit einen Antrag beschlossen hatte, die dju- und Verdi-Bundesspitze auffordert, sich für die Aufhebung der EU-Sanktionen gegen den 🇩🇪 Journalisten Hüseyin Dogru einzusetzen. Damit wurde erstmals (!) von einer gewerkschaftlichen Gliederung Solidarität mit Dogru bekundet...
Ein Verdi-Sprecher erklärte nun auf aktuelle Presseanfragen, (u.a. Multipolar), der dju-Bundesvorstand nehme den Beschluss der Landesfachgruppe „zur Kenntnis“, weise jedoch die Aufforderung zurück, „im Fall Dogru anders zu agieren als bisher“. Die EU-Sanktionen müssten „rechtsstaatlich überprüfbar sein“, schließlich sei die EU ein Bündnis demokratischer Rechtsstaaten. „Aber die EU ist auch ein Bündnis wehrhafter Demokratien“, sagte der Sprecher.
Die Einordnung der Sanktionen gegen Dogru „als Pressefreiheitsfall“ sowie die daraus abgeleiteten Forderungen aus der dju-Landesfachgruppe „teilen wir ausdrücklich nicht“, heißt es weiter. Es sei nach wie vor offen, „wie die anfangs im russischen Staatsmedien-Netzwerk platzierte Plattform des Betroffenen zuletzt finanziert wurde und ob es sich hier um unabhängigen Journalismus handelt. Nur dieser wird durch die Pressefreiheit geschützt.“ In Abstimmung mit dem ver.di-Bundesvorstand sehe man deshalb „keine Veranlassung“, die Haltung in dieser Sache zu ändern...
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.
As soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.
I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and national infrastructure unit.
It's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!