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gnoring the symbolism
and political implications
of its action, the National
Press Club in Washington
this month will bestow one of
its highest awards on a
Palestinian journalist who is
awaiting trial in Israel for
allegedly aiding the Is-
lamic fundamentalist group
Hamas.
The writer, Taher Shriteh,
was scheduled to have been
deported in. December but
Israeli officials decided to try
him instead. Shriteh works as
a freelance writer for several
news agencies, including
Reuters, the New York Times
and CBS.
He is charged with possess-
ing an unregistered fax ma-
chine belonging to a Hamas
leader and for giving Hamas
Reuter's fax number.
Israeli officials say Shriteh
also helped the terrorist or-
ganization publish their leaf-
lets in Jerusalem, and they
claim to have information
tying him to armed Hamas
fugitives for whom he organ-
ized a meeting with a foreign
diplomat.
National Press Club Presi-
dent Clayton Boyce, in an in-
terview with The Jewish
News, confirmed that Shriteh
will receive the Freedom of
Press award. Boyce said the
club acted on the nomination
by the Committee to Protect
Journalists and a letter it
received signed by five or six
major news organizations.
"I don't think there is any
symbolism here," said Mr.
Boyce. "We are not making a
political statement."
Mr. Boyce did not seem to
have any first-hand informa-
tion about Mr. Shriteh. He
said Mr. Shriteh had been
arrested several times but
faces only one charge — own-
ing the fax machine. He had
no knowledge about Mr.
Shriteh's political activity.
And, of course, that is the
major point.
Should the National Press
Club have investigated the
nomination a little more
thoroughly before making its
decision and, most impor-
tantly, considered whether it
might turn down Mr. Shriteh?
Not because he might be in-
volved politically with Hamas
but because that certainly
would make his objectivity
suspect.
Mr. Boyce said Mr. Shriteh
is charged with helping
Hamas distribute its material
which, he said, is what a jour-
nalist is supposed to do. But
Mr. Boyce is wrong. His job
was to distribute his own
material on Hamas, not the
organization's propaganda.
And, if true, arranging
meetings for Hamas hardly
reflects impartiality, which is
the bedrock of objective
journalism.
If nothing else, the National
Press Club certainly could
have waited for the results of
the trial. If found innocent, it
would have had an even
stronger case for honoring
Mr. Shriteh.
This is the second troubling
action taken by the National
Press Club concerning Jews
in recent years.
At the height of the con-
troversy about the Rev. Louis
Farrakhan and his anti-
Semitic remarks, the club in-
vited him to address its
members, giving Mr. Far-
rakhan the privilege of speak-
ing from one of the nation's
more prestigious podiums.
❑
Fundamentalism
Warning Set
Amsterdam (JTA) — Israel's
President Chaim Herzog, in
Holland on an official visit,
addressed the Dutch Senate
and spoke of the dangers to
the entire world of spreading
Muslim fundamentalism.
Mr. Herzog mentioned in
particular the fundamenta-
list group Hamas, which
Israel has had to face in the
administered territories.
But Dutch Prime Minister
Ruud Lubbers criticized
Israel's deportation last
December of Hamas ac-
tivists' to southern Lebanon
as a response to the funda-
mentalists' challenge.
"It is our impression that
the most effective method to
combat Hamas opposition to
the peace process is to reach
early and tangible results, in
particular with regard to the
living conditions in the oc-
cupied areas.
"The Netherlands,
therefore, supports the con-
demnation by the United
Nations of the recent depor-
tations by Israel," he added.