#ShireenAbuAklehMoment: Some international journalists have embedded with the IDF inside Gaza since 7 October. However, the IDF has forbidden contact with Palestinians on the ground and has insisted that reports be submitted for review before publication or broadcast.
#BDSisNonViolent
#EliminatingDiscent
#ExceptForPalestine
#criminalizingdissent
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#PublishingIsNotACrime #journalists
#KillingTheFirstAmendment #ManifestDestinyBrutes
https://www.juancole.com/2023/11/government-newspaper-critical.html
#ShireenAbuAklehMoment: Reporters without Borders lists Israel at number 97 in its Freedom of Press rankings of 180 countries, above the Central African Republic and below Albania. It notes: In addition to the possibility of civil defamation suits, journalists can also be charged with criminal defamation and ‘insulting a public official’.
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By Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University | - The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza. The communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, has suggested financial penalties be applied to the paper accusing it of “lying, defeatist propaganda” and “sabotaging Israel in wartime”. The proposal aims to cancel state subscriptions to the paper and “forbid the publication of official notices”. In response, the Israeli Journalists’ Union called the move a “populistic proposal devoid of any feasibility of logic”. Haaretz, which is an independent
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/israel-assassinating-journalists-gaza
#ShireenAbuAklehMoment: Just as it has claimed that Hamas was hiding in Gaza hospitals, near schools, and in ambulance convoys in order to justify its bombing and killing of civilians, Israel has peddled the same predictable excuses for these targeted assassinations of journalists. In a chilling November 2 article that effectively doubles as a hit list, the Jerusalem Post spotlighted several independent Palestinian journalists who had been reporting from Gaza and smeared them as part of “Hamas’s propaganda team”.
#ShireenAbuAklehMoment: As of November 28:
• 57 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead: 50 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 3 Lebanese.
• 11 journalists were reported injured.
• 3 journalists were reported missing.
• 19 journalists were reported arrested.
• Multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members.
CPJ is also investigating numerous unconfirmed reports of other journalists…
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#MemoryAsResistance #RuleOfLaw #BidenNailsUNCoffin
https://cpj.org/2023/11/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/amp/
Editor’s note: The list below is CPJ’s most complete account of journalist deaths in the war. Our database will not reflect many of these casualties until we have fully investigated the circumstances surrounding them. For more information, read our FAQ. The Israel-Gaza war has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against...
#KillingWitness: Palestinian journalist Amal Zohd, along with her entire family, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City hours before the #humanitarian pause began. Zohd is the sixth woman journalist killed by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. We call on the international community to exert diplomatic pressure on parties involved in the conflict
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Gladwyn d’Souza