Israeli Apartheid

By Ibrahim Vawda – Media Review Network

Application for prosecution of Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) by The Foundation for Human Rights & Freedoms & Human Rights Relief (IHH) Turkey

On the 14th October 2010, an application will be submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, by the IHH Turkey, to prosecute Israel for its attack on the Mavi Marmara, the ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza.

A media briefing will be held after the submission, at the ICC, at 10:30am, to which the Media has been invited.

The Media Review Network supports this initiative by the IHH Turkey. We also advocate democracy and freedom for all the oppressed peoples of the world. Since the world is experiencing a “freedom recession”, we urge all South Africans to support any movement which endeavours to protect civil liberties and political rights.

Vist http://www.ihh.org.tr/anasayfa/en/
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By Mandy de Waal

(Source: City Press 25/02/2011)

Local media came under fire from the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) as the Press Council of South Africa’s road show travelled across the Cape for a series of public hearings this week.

Nabeweya Malick of the MJC spoke of the damaging effect that “US-centric propaganda” has on local Muslims and the fear created by prejudiced and thoughtless reporting that stereotypes Muslims as “terrorists” or dangerous.  Malick made her submission in Cape Town where the public hearings took place at Naspers headquarters in the city centre.

“This prejudice could have its genesis in statements made by the then President of the United States, Mr George Bush, who said: ‘You are either with us or you are against us,’ in reference to the Iraq war.” Malick says this created a platform where Muslim communities who didn’t agree with the US war in Iraq were perceived to be supporting “so-called terrorists”.

Malick says this was exacerbated in South Africa by the media’s failure to be more critical, independent and because of the press’ over reliance on wire copy from the US and the UK.

“During the war on Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan our media failed to rigidly maintain its independence because it used journalists from the United States to report on the war. “Very seldom, if ever, did we get any journalists based in Iraq or Afghanistan with an alternative view which countered the statements or the accusations made by the Bush regime,” she said.

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By Jeffery  Gettleman

(source: New York Times)

The rebel groups that started the war in Darfur in 2003, catalyzing a conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, almost seem to have gone into hibernation. So, too, have the infamous janjaweed, the marauding bandits who raped, killed and terrorized countless civilians.

And this planting season, for the first time since 2003, United Nations officials say that tens of thousands of farmers who had been seeking refuge in squalid displaced persons camps returned to their villages to plant crops, a journey many Darfurians would have considered suicide until recently.

Read More »Sudan the changes across the landsCape here would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago