June 29, 2015
NZ Mainstream media will focus on Maori TV when Journalists leave, but not when their Journalists get arrested by Israel
NZ Mainstream media will focus on Maori TV when Journalists leave, but not when their Journalists get arrested by Israel
MARTYN BRADBURY
It's remarkable.
When Journalists leave Maori TV, the mainstream media are almost gleeful in covering it, yet today when Maori TV have had two of their journalists arrested by the Israeli's, there is barely a whisper?
Maori TV Journalist Ruwani Perera and camera operator, Jacob Bryant, were arrested yesterday on board a peace flotilla trying to break the violent and brutal blockade of Gaza.
In 2010, Israel boarded another peace flotilla and murdered 10 activists. The cruelty and apartheid nature of the occupation of Gaza by the Israeli's is one of the great on going cultural genocides the modern planet is witnessing. Maori TV have a long history of covering indigenous issues around the globe, and the vicious nature of the illegal occupation of Palestinians is an issue they should be focusing upon. Gaza is little more than the largest open air prison on Earth and the inhumane manner in which Palestinians are forced to suffer as a people is the very type of story Maori TV has every right to cover.
Trying to ignore the journalistic reasons as to why Maori TV journalists are there and paint them as 'trouble makers' merely supports and aids the occupiers. It doesn't shine light on the ugly truth.
At a time when our Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully, is attempting fro search for peace in the Middle East as part of our new role on the Security Council, the least he can do is demand Israel release two of our journalists immediately, and the least the wider NZ media can do is show support for two of their colleagues arrested for doing their job.
Martyn Bradbury
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