[New York Post] Zev Chafets - It's not every day that a community of Western journalists takes such a clear stand against the pretense of neutrality. The National Union of British Journalists accompanied its boycott decision with the sort of anti-Zionist rhetoric usually heard only in Tehran. A more image-conscious group than the NUBJ would have postponed its endorsement of the Palestinian jihad until the release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston from his captivity in Gaza. Israel, I believe, should not only respect the British boycott, but join it. The government of Israel should ask all British correspondents stationed in Israel to leave. And it should withhold visas and accreditation from members of the NUBJ (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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