A number of Egyptian journalists launched a campaign to collect signatures on a statement rejecting normalization with Israel, affirming their commitment to their successive general assembly decisions banning union, professional and personal normalization, which their union took after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978, which Thursday marked the 42nd anniversary of its signature.
The campaign statement said that it stems from an emphasis on the centrality of the Palestinian cause as a priority that advances the issues of the Arab nation, pointing out that supporting the steadfastness of the Palestinian people is the basis for facing the occupation and inhuman and illegal practices that threaten the human and societal security of the people of Palestine.
The statement confirmed the continuation of the campaign to collect signatures that was launched a month ago, as positive reactions continued from the initiative of a group of journalists belonging to different generations in the General Assembly of the Syndicate of Journalists, and resulted in more than 500 journalists wrapping around the contents of the statement, followed by the joining of 200 other journalists within days. Following to launch the campaign.
In their statement, the journalists called on the professional and labor unions to renew their decisions to ban normalization and tighten the ban, in defense of positions and decisions that served as the incubator for the protection of Egyptian culture and conscience, and in line with the constants of Egyptian and Arab patriotism and the intuitions of the human conscience.
Journalists also demanded their union council to issue a statement that would reaffirm the position of the union and its successive general assemblies on this issue, as well as address the Arab Journalists Union to renew its position and notify the Arab press syndicates, associations and associations of the union’s position that rejects normalization and obliges these parties to hold accountable any of its members who violate this decision.
The journalists who signed the statement pointed out that the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate was one of the first professional unions to prohibit normalization.