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Clancy Chassay

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Clancy Chassay (1980 - ) is an English freelance journalist and filmmaker, who writes for various British newspapers, including the British news magazine The Economist and the newspapers The Independent , The Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian . In his childhood Chassay was briefly a child actor, appearing in two Derek Jarman films, as the young Ludwig Wittgenstein in Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein and the young Wilfred Owen , alongside Laurence Olivier , in Jarman's 1988 film War Requiem . He later went on to study Philosophy and International Relations at the University of Sussex in Brighton . He became a Beirut -based correspondent following the outbreak of the Lebanon war in July 2006.1 He has been seen by the pro- Israeli media lobby in the USA as being pro- Palestinian . Of Chassay’s series of video reports for The Guardian , the pro-Israeli US-based media watch dog CAMERA ( Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America ) reported that they "can hardly be considered journalism. It should more appropriately be labelled pro-Palestinian agitprop".2 In 2007 Chassay was nominated for the Rory Peck Award for Freelance Reporting and in 2008 was nominated for Best Multimedia Journalist at the British Press Awards.3

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english freelance journalist and filmmaker

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english writer

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