Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer is a Core Contributor to The NewStandard. He is a freelance photojournalist; his writings, interviews and photographs have appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including most recently, The Journal of Palestine Studies and The Progressive.

Jon has photographed and reported from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Western Sahara, Maoist-controlled areas of Nepal, and at anti-war and "anti-corporate globalization" demonstrations all across North America.

Previous contributions to The NewStandard (41):

• 10/14/05 ‘Disengagement’ Affords Some Relief for Gaza Fishing Enclave
• 10/10/05 Israeli High Court Rules Army Use of Human Shields Illegal
• 10/03/05 Air Raids Terrorize Gaza Residents, Target Key Infrastructure
• 09/22/05 Palestinians Cheer as Army Quits Two West Bank Settlements
• 09/16/05 Israel’s High Court Rejects World Court Ruling on Barrier
• 09/13/05 Former Gaza General Eludes UK War Crimes Charge
• 09/13/05 Investigation: Five Palestinians Killed in Tul Karm Raid Noncombatants
• 09/07/05 Israeli Army Continues Use of Palestinians as Human Shields
• 08/31/05 Israeli Terror Compensation Rules Treat Jew’s Victims Differently
• 08/26/05 Soldiers, Anguish Remain Around Evacuated West Bank Settlements
• 08/19/05 Protest, Grief as Barrier Segregates Palestinian Village from Farms
• 08/16/05 New Settlement Puts Pressure on Jerusalem Palestinians
• 07/22/05 Violence, Poverty Underscore Story of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
• 07/13/05 On Iraq-Jordan Border, Various Roles Play Out in Desert
• 06/01/05 ‘Mistakenly’ Arrested Sunni Politician One Among Many
• 12/06/04 U.S. has invasive, high-tech plans for Fallujah’s returning refugees
• 10/18/04 Two Iraqi journalists gunned down in separate incidents
• 10/16/04 US Marines come under attack from Syrian territory
• 09/10/04 Iraqi deaths quietly mount as official U.S. troop toll passes 1,000
• 08/20/04 Iraqi Olympic soccer team outraged at Bush campaign ad
• 08/19/04 US soldiers kill 2 prisoners in Abu Ghraib
• 08/19/04 Journalists who defied Najaf ban threatened with death
• 08/16/04 Iraqis continue to accuse US troops of pillaging civilian homes
• 08/16/04 Media blackout in Najaf enforced at rifle-point, journalists evicted
• 08/01/04 Bush-Cheney organizers request racial profile of photographer
• 07/31/04 ‘Serious’ water crisis looming in Basra, UN warns
• 07/20/04 Thousands of Iraqis overwhelm newly opened passport offices
• 07/16/04 New Iraqi PM may have executed men just before ‘handover’
• 07/07/04 Mounting Evidence Suggests Israeli Operatives Working in Occupied Iraq
• 07/03/04 Army report confirms Psy-ops staged Saddam statue toppling
• 07/02/04 US soldiers charged with drowning Iraqi civilian
• 06/24/04 US CentCom asks Army to send more troops to Iraq
• 06/23/04 Recorded message calls for assassination of Iraqi PM
• 06/22/04 Fallujah Residents Protest Deadly Weekend Attack by U.S. Military
• 06/21/04 Israeli operatives reportedly conducting covert ops in Kurdistan
• 06/16/04 Halliburton caught overbilling Pentagon for Iraq contracts, again
• 06/16/04 U.S. and its Iraqi appointees show division on prisoners, palaces
• 06/15/04 U.S. releases 400 detainees, Red Cross says release them all
• 06/13/04 Car bombing, assassination target U.S. occupation and Iraqi allies
• 06/11/04 Use of dogs in Abu Ghraib authorized at the highest levels
• 06/09/04 Briefs show administration's intentions to legalize torture