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Palestinians Curb Israeli Reporters' Access to West Bank
(Washington Post) William Booth - Palestinians gathered in Ramallah in the West Bank on Wednesday to commemorate the day they call al-Naqba, or the catastrophe, when the State of Israel was born in 1948. The day unfolded according to the script. At the checkpoints, Palestinian teenagers threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, who answered with tear gas. Except that today there are fewer journalists from Israel covering these events. Palestinian journalists are waging a campaign to make it harder for Israeli reporters to cover stories in the West Bank. Now, members of the shrinking Israeli press corps that regularly covers Palestinian affairs face being ejected from news conferences and questioned by Palestinian security forces. Palestinian journalists who are friendly with their Israeli colleagues are labeled "collaborators."