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Anti Semitic people in Associated Press

Sunita Paul

Following the publication of my recent article titled ´Press Under Attack in Bangladesh´, which was published in a number of global newspapers, I received several mails from various individuals and journalists from Bangladesh expressing thanks for putting focus on this extremely important issue, while a journalist named Ms. Parveen Ahmed, who works with Associated Press (AP) in Dhaka (Bangladesh) as well an unidentified individual named Syful Islam sent me two separate mails, almost at the same time expressing their anti-Semitic attitude.

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Associated Press loses credibility

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

American news agency Associated Press [AP]’s Dhaka office has finally exposed its extremely nasty anti-Semitic and anti-Israel face. Recently, it was revealed when a staff correspondent with AP’s Dhaka office, Parveen Ahmed wrote several emails to an eminent columnist in South Asia named Sunita Paul, where Parveen expressed virtual anger as Ms. Paul wrote an excellent article on repression of journalists in Bangladesh. She [Parveen] also passed extremely objectionable remarks on Israel through official email address of Associated Press.

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Anti Semitic Associated Press

Professor Barry Rubin

If I would choose one article in the Western media that I have read over many decades as the worst piece of anti-Israel propaganda of all, it might well be Karin Laub’s April 26, 2008 piece, “Palestinian plight is flip side of Israel's independence joy.” Why? Because many articles have slandered Israel on various points or told falsehoods ranging from the disgusting to the humorous or been based on assumptions that were at odds with the truth.

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Muhammad Yunus thinks imaginatively - Abed

Rashidul Bari

One cannot write Nazrul’s biography without mentioning Tagore’s name. In the same manner, one mentions nobody but Muhammad Yunus—in order to write or speak about Fazle Hasan Abed. On April 1, 2008 that is what happened at Harvard University while the Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen paid tribute to Fazle Hassan Abed.

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