Arthur Neslen

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Arthur Neslen is a British-born journalist and author. Nelsen has especially covered Middle East issues, fossil lobbies' influence on European institutions and climate change. He served as journalist for Haaretz , Jane's Information Group, The Observer , The Guardian , [1] and as a correspondent for the websites of The Economist and al-Jazeera . [2] NGOs credited policy changes at the European commission, [3] international financial institutions [4] and wildlife regulatory agencies [5]  in part to Neslen’s work.

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Career

Neslen began his career at the City Limits magazine and worked as the international editor of for Red Pepper and as a broadcast journalist for the BBC.

In 1990, Neslen was hospitalised after a serious assault at a London tube station. Fascist activist Tony Lecomber was eventually convicted of the assault, and jailed for three years. [6]

Neslen wrote two books about identity in the Middle East. Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche [7] was published by Pluto Press in 2006 and In Your Eyes A Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian [8] was published by University of California Press in October, 2011. He is also the author of the booklet Gaza: Dignity Under Siege [9] which was published by CIDSE (International Co-operation for Development and Solidarity) in 2009. All three are collections of interviews and photographs.

In 2009, while taking photographs for In Your Eyes a Sandstorm, Neslen was attacked with a knife in a Gaza street. Two years later, he returned to Gaza to meet the attacker, a young Palestinian diagnosed as schizophrenic. [10]

After moving to Brussels, Neslen began working for The Guardian in 2014 as the paper’s Europe environment correspondent, [11] where he contributed to its award-winning Keep it in the ground [12] campaign.

His investigative reports often focused on how EU climate policy had been influenced by lobbying from fossil fuel majors including BP, [13] Shell, [14] Chevron, [15] Exxon and others acting in concert. [16] One report showed [17] how US officials had pressured the EU into weakening pesticides regulations, in negotiations over the aborted [18] TTIP trade deal.

Other stories that he broke included the European Food Safety Authority’s use of an EU report that copy and pasted analyses from a Monsanto study [19] to justify a recommendation for relicensing glyphosate. The story was later vindicated by a cross-party inquiry in the European parliament. [20]

He is currently a senior reporter for Politico.

References

  1. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (18 March 2008). "Profile". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  2. ↑ Cartwright, Jill (7 July 2006). "Anti-Zionist, pro-Israeli". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 20 July 2006. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (28 May 2015). "Brussels moves to limit coal lobby's influence on pollution standards". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  4. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (30 October 2015). "Macedonia dam faces the axe over risk of Balkan lynx extinction". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  5. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (5 May 2016). "Europe to crack down on wildlife smugglers to protect rare lizard species". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  6. ↑ Peled, Daniella (21 June 2016). "Jo Cox's murder sheds light on Britain's tradition of far-right extremism". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  7. ↑ Neslen, Arthur Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche, January 2006, Pluto Press, ISBN   978-0-7453-2365-7
  8. ↑ Neslen, Arthur In Your Eyes A Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian], October 2011, University of California Press, ISBN   978-0-520-26427-4
  9. ↑ Gaza: Dignity Under Siege
  10. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (2 March 2012). "Why I met the man who tried to kill me". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "Arthur Neslen | The Guardian". the Guardian.
  12. ↑ "Keep it in the ground | The Guardian". the Guardian.
  13. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (20 April 2016). "EU dropped climate policies after BP threat of oil industry 'exodus'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  14. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (27 April 2015). "Shell lobbied to undermine EU renewables targets, documents reveal". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  15. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (26 April 2016). "TTIP: Chevron lobbied for controversial legal right as 'environmental deterrent'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  16. ↑ Neslen, Arthur; Brussels (22 January 2015). "Fossil fuel firms accused of renewable lobby takeover to push gas". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  17. ↑ "EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal". the Guardian. 22 May 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  18. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (1 May 2016). "Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  19. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (14 September 2017). "EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  20. ↑ Neslen, Arthur (15 January 2019). "EU glyphosate approval was based on plagiarised Monsanto text, report finds". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
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