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Family tie to Israeli PR poses major conflict of interest
9/26/13
The Washington Post may
be violating its own conflict of interest rules by hiring a Jerusalem
correspondent whose spouse works for an Israeli government-linked public
relations firm. A 2010 Jerusalem Post profile ("Zionist Start Up," 6/17/10) described Upstart Activist as having been founded by "two former Israel activists...looking for a way to combat all of the anti-Israel propaganda swirling around the second intifada":
In
December 2001, Upstart Activist was born as a unique combination of a
pro-Israel marketing firm and an educational organization, creating
educational materials to support and promote pro-Israel activists on
college campuses. The company started with a three-pronged approach:
presenting Israel effectively through hasbara, combating anti-Israel
propaganda and, most importantly, encouraging people to come to Israel.
"Hasbara"
means pro-Israel advocacy, and as the profile makes clear, the
"anti-Israel propaganda" Upstart's hasbara aimed to counter was found
largely in the Western press that now employs his spouse: "Watching
foreign news--CNN, Sky News, Fox--was
very concerning and troubling," says Eric Esses, Eglash's co-founder.
Later, Esses is quoted as saying that "the most aggressive anti-Israel
sentiment is in the newspaper."
On its website, on a page headed "What We Do,"
Upstart boasts of its success in "training students in effective
pro-Israel activism." Upstart's clients include the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Tourism, the Jewish Agency for Israel
and the World Zionist Organization. Other clients, like Hillel and
Birthright for Israel, are active in promoting a pro-Israel message on
college campuses, because for Upstart, as the Jerusalem Post puts it, "college is the sweet spot for internalizing the pro-Israel message."
Upstart's website
indicates that the firm works closely with the Jewish National Fund
(JNF), a quasi-governmental institution with authority over Israeli
land. Currently the JNF is embroiled in controversy over a campaign that
would evict 40,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their historic lands in
Israel's Negev Desert (Naqab in Arabic) to make room for expanded Jewish
developments (Christian Science Monitor, 9/17/13).
Ruth Eglash is the former deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post,
a right-leaning, Israeli nationalist daily. In addition to the
conflicts posed by her husband's professional connections to the Israeli
government and groups promoting the Israeli cause, Eglash is listed on the roster of JNF's speakers' bureau, who are described as "connecting you to Israel and the Jewish world."
Eglash's entanglements would appear to violate the paper's Conflict of Interest rules, which read in part:
This
newspaper is pledged to avoid conflict of interest or the appearance of
conflict of interest, wherever and whenever possible. We have adopted
stringent policies on these issues, conscious that they may be more
restrictive than is customary in the world of private business....
Many
outside activities and jobs are incompatible with the proper
performance of work on an independent newspaper. Connections with
government are among the most objectionable....
Relatives cannot fairly be made subject to Post
rules, but it should be recognized that their employment or their
involvement in causes can at least appear to compromise our integrity.
The business and professional ties of traditional family members or
other members of your household must be disclosed to department heads.
When EI asked Post
foreign editor Douglas Jehl whether Eglash had disclosed her husband's
activities, and whether his work as a pro-Israel advocate could be seen
as compromising the paper's integrity, he wrote back with a
non-response, insisting that the Post
"is committed to its stringent policy on avoiding conflict of
interest," while failing to address the Eglash case at all. Jehl's reply
was copied to Jerusalem bureau chief William Booth and deputy foreign
editor Griff Witte.
ACTION:
Please ask the Washington Post to reassign reporter Ruth Eglash so that she is not covering a country on whose behalf her husband does advocacy work.
CONTACT:
Washington Post
Readers' Representative
Doug Feaver
readers@washpost.com
Dear Friends,
It’s like watching a reality show -- except that the actors are completely OUT of touch with reality.
If you’ve been on the Internet or watching the news the past several days, you’ve seen it. While
the rest of us are trying to make a living in the face of unsustainable
government debt, ever-increasing regulations, and abuses of our
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need them to govern -- and they are performing for Fox News and doing
NOTHING to actually deal with the problems we face, most of which they
created.
For
months, everyone has known that the last budget deal President Obama
and Congress cut will expire Monday. Unless they come up with a new
deal or pass something to kick the can down the road for a few more
days, we will see the silly exercise of a government “shutdown”. Here we
are. It’s Thursday, and they are just now getting serious about pulling off some trick to keep the government operating on Monday.
What business, what organization, what family would operate that way -- if they expected to survive?
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it will do NOTHING to stop the government from spending hundreds of
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Men are from Mars, women are from Venus?
His pediatrician asked six-year-old Johnny, who watched a good many TV, adds, just to make conversation. Johnny, if you found a couple of dollars and had to spend them, what would you buy?”
“A box of Tampax,” he replied without hesitation.
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