Gutsy Women: Eva Bartlett

"In a conversation with Eva Bartlett, Brian Gerrish (UK Column) learns what takes a young woman from Canada to travel to explore the world.
Bartlett (2007) paid for herself to go to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (2008-2013) to understand what was really happening.

Eva paid a price for her courage on the front lines: she suffered physical harm from Israeli soldiers & from illegal Jewish colonists; she endured arrest, shackling and custody by the Israeli police; and she experienced the trauma of being in the firing line when Israeli troops targeted live rounds against unarmed Palestinian protestors—a frequent occurrence.

Eva visited Syria (2014-2021, 15 times), rather than relying on the reports of others while observing from a distance. Western media reports on the Syrian war were heavily distorted to meet what she clearly regards as a US-UK-NATO official line.

In more recent years, Eva went to see and experience the reality of life in both the Crimea and in the Donbass.

It was in the Donetsk environs that Eva was to understand the horrors of the Ukrainian shelling and rocket attacks that the Russian civilian population has endured for nearly a decade. She spoke with local families, she witnessed the destruction, and she filmed and reported the reality of the dead bodies and parts of bodies of those killed in recent attacks.

Placing herself at risk on the front line of conflict zones, Eva Bartlett has then had to defend herself against vile and dangerous social media and related attacks. Abuse ranges from accusations of cowardice by armchair social media warriors to her being placed on Myrotvorets (‘Peacemaker’), the supposedly non-official Ukrainian death list

Canadian state-aligned media (CBC), clearly intent on undermining her Donbas reporting in whatever manner they could, smeared her, drawing from the kill list entry...

Related:

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/about-me/

https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/

https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/

https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/illegal-colonists-assault-palestinian-farmers/

https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/

Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer
https://youtu.be/zSECq3kxT4I?si=nkVj9UD-EFD3hqin&t=88

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

My Gaza playlist: https://odysee.com/$/playlist/ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/im-on-a-hit-list-kiev-allows-to-silence-dissent-journalism-thats-all-you-need-to-know-about-ukrainian-democracy/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/government-funded-cbc-smears-me-interview-with-maverick-media-cbc-fake-news-hit-piece-targets-journalists-eva-bartlett/