Amira Hass on Democracy Now!

Don't miss this fantastic interview with Amira Hass by Amy Goodman, discussing the new book, Diary of Bergen-Belsen, by Hanna Lévy-Hass, with introduction and afterword by Amira Hass

Amira Hass is a reporter and columnist for Ha´aretz Daily, a newspaper based in Tel Aviv. She is the winner of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.

The IWMF writes:

"For almost 20 years Hass has written critically about both Israeli and Palestinian authorities. She has demonstrated her ability to defy boundaries of gender, ethnicity and religion in her pursuit of the truth in her reporting. In covering the Palestinian Occupied Territories, her goal has been to provide her readers with detailed information about Israeli policies and especially that of restrictions of the freedom of movement." For many years, she made her home first in Gaza City and then in Ramallah. In 2002 the Los Angeles Times reported that Hass 'is the only Israeli Jew known to be living under Palestinian rule and one of a handful of Jewish reporters who still cross enemy lines for the Israeli media.'"

Listen to her full interview here: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/8/diary_of_bergen_belson_1944_1945