Chris McGreal

Chris McGreal

Chris McGreal is a reporter for The Guardian who frequently covers Middle East issues.

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Career

McGreal started in journalism with the BBC, covering Mexico and Central America. In 1985 he moved to The Independent, and then to The Guardian in 1992. He reported from Johannesburg, South Africa for ten years, and then became The Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent in 2002. He won the National Print Journalist of the Year (British Press) award from Amnesty International in 1995, and in 2003 the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, given for work that " penetrated the established version of events and told an unpalatable truth."[citation needed] In 2006 he moved back to South Africa as correspondent for the Guardian.

Controversies

Worlds Apart article

In a controversial Guardian special report published in 2006, McGreal, who has covered both apartheid South Africa and Israel in his career, compared the two and alleged numerous similarities, citing the United States Department of State's annual human rights report for 1999.[1] Among other claims, McGreal alleged that Israel's Population Registration Act is similar to an apartheid era South African Act of the same name. The latter categorized South Africans according to racial definitions in order to determine who could live in what land. McGreal alleges that the Israeli act "serves a similar purpose by distinguishing between nationality and citizenship. Arabs and Jews alike can be citizens, but each is assigned a separate 'nationality' marked on identity cards(either spelled out or, more recently, in a numeric code), in effect determining where they are permitted to live, access to some government welfare programmes, and how they are likely to be treated by civil servants and policemen."[2]

Extensive responses to McGreal's allegations were offered by several media watchdog organizations, including the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America,[3][4][5] the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, [6] Engage,[7] and Honest Reporting,[8] which viewed his claims as false and defamatory. The Guardian's letters editor reported that "more than 100 letters on the subject had been directed at the page, with roughly three endorsing the decision to deal with the subject, to every two against, most of the latter rejecting any apartheid analogy." [9]

The new anti-Semitism and Rising UK anti-semitism blamed on media articles

Although describing McGreal as "The Guardian's usually excellent reporter" and as an "otherwise excellent Jerusalem correspondent" Arab Media Watch, a media watch organization, has organized campaigns complaining to The Guardian about two Chris McGreal articles about European anti-Semitism. The organization claimed that McGreal's 2003 article "The 'new' anti-semitism: is Europe in grip of worst bout of hatred since the Holocaust?", consisted of "paragraph after paragraph of baseless allegations by Jewish and Israeli leaders against Europe's Muslims, stating that their existence, growth and influence on the continent is a threat to Jews".[10] It also described McGreal's 2005 article, "Rising UK anti-semitism blamed on media" as "one-sided".[11]

References

  1. ^ United States Department of State's annual human rights report for 1999
  2. ^ Chris McGreal, Worlds apart, The Guardian, February 5, 2006
  3. ^ Lee Green, Gilead Ini, Steven Stotsky, "CAMERA ALERT: Guardian portrays Israel as an Apartheid State Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, February 8, 2006
  4. ^ Guardian Defames Israel with False Apartheid Charges - Further distortions exposed in March 8th update, CAMERA, February 20, 2006
  5. ^ Guardian's False Apartheid Charges—Part II, CAMERA, February 23, 2006
  6. ^ Response to the Guardian's G2 supplement - Part II, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM), 8 February 2006
  7. ^ Engage blog article, Feb. 8, 2006
  8. ^ Guardian Promotes Apartheid Slur, from Honest Reporting, February 12, 2006
  9. ^ "The readers' editor on ... a debate about Israel and apartheid South Africa", The Guardian, February 13, 2006
  10. ^ "COMPLAIN TO THE GUARDIAN!!!". Action Alerts. Arab Media Watch. 2003. http://www.arabmediawatch.com/amw/Articles/ActionAlerts/tabid/74/newsid397/58/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2006-08-21. 
  11. ^ "COMPLAIN TO CHRIS MCGREAL & THE GUARDIAN!!!". Action Alerts. Arab Media Watch. 2005. http://www.arabmediawatch.com/amw/Articles/ActionAlerts/tabid/74/newsid397/36/COMPLAIN-TO-CHRIS-MCGREAL--THE-GUARDIAN/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2006-08-21. 

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External links

Articles by McGreal


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