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Journalism out, hasbara in: How Israeli TV news joined the Gaza war effort
Tectonic shifts in Israeli broadcasting have played a key role in shaping the country’s nationalist and militaristic discourse, with Oct. 7 marking their apex.
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Eyal Lurie-Pardes
March 6, 2024
Why the New York Times is behind the times on Israel-Palestine
A recent editorial criticizing Israel's new government reflects the same blind spots that have dogged America's 'newspaper of record' for decades.
By
Maha Nassar
December 21, 2022
[Video] ‘Israeli forces impersonating news crews endangers journalists’
Undercover Israeli troops, reportedly impersonating a news crew, arrest a Palestinian student leader at a major West Bank university. Israeli journalists’ union issues strong condemnation. [Update appended below] According to a number of reports in the Israeli and Palestinian media, undercover Israeli security forces impersonated a news crew in order to arrest a student leader…
By
Haggai Matar
March 7, 2018
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Eritrean man’s ‘lynch’ highlights failings of the Israeli press
The Israeli media shares some responsibility for the hysteria on the streets and the phenomenon of ‘accidental’ attacks against Jews, Palestinians, and now Eritreans. By Hagar Shezaf Habtom Zerhom, an Eritrean asylum seeker, was shot by security forces and then lynched by Israelis in Beer Sheva’s bus station after being mistakenly identified as a terrorist…
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October 20, 2015
Reporting in the line of duty
Channel 10’s veteran military analyst rides along with a unit that goes undercover as Palestinians, taking a shot at embedded reporting. The result has very little to do with journalism. By Nir Gontarz Television journalists generally bring a videographer with them when they report from the field. Embarrassingly enough, the person who filmed veteran reporter…
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The Seventh Eye
April 30, 2015
The IDF unmasks an anonymous source — itself
Security agencies in Israel love to give reporters information without attribution, refusing to stand behind what they say. Every once in a while, they publish the same information on their official websites. By Ido Kenan In July 2011, a year after the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident, in which passengers attacked Israeli forces who then killed…
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The Seventh Eye
March 30, 2015
WATCH: Short doc looks for the Palestinians in Israeli elections
Why is Gaza not an issue in Israel’s elections? Filmmakers Tamar Glezerman and Arianna LaPenne speak with +972 bloggers to examine the mainstream media landscape, and its marginalization of the Palestinians, the occupation and the war in Gaza. Shot during Operation Protective Edge, this short documentary follows independent writers and photojournalists as they cover one…
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+972 Magazine
March 15, 2015
All but one Israeli news site gives prominence to Zoabi attack
Out of the main Israeli news websites, only Ynet decides to play down its coverage of the attack on MK Haneen Zoabi. By Oren Persico As opposed to all the other major Israeli news sites, only Ynet decidedly toned down on its homepage Tuesday’s attack on Palestinian MK Haneen Zoabi, according to The Seventh Eye’s media…
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The Seventh Eye
March 6, 2015
Israeli election coverage: ‘Our Ahmad is named Ayman’
In its coverage of the elections, the Israeli media generally portrays political parties with pictures of their chairpersons — that is, except for the joint Arab list. By Elad Harlev / ‘The 7th Eye‘ Earlier this week, Oren Persico called out the Israeli media for its representations, or lack thereof, of non-Jewish Israelis. The story,…
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The Seventh Eye
February 5, 2015
Farewell to David Landau, who would have hated this headline
September 11, 2001. I get off the bus from northern Tel Aviv that takes me to 21 Shocken St., where the Haaretz building is located. As I enter the doors I’m greeted by a colleague from the Hebrew news desk, who says “Wow, you’re going to have quite a shift.” I was night editor of…
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Ami Kaufman
January 28, 2015
Why I quit ‘Russia Today,’ and why it remains necessary
Working for Russia’s state-owned media was supposed to be an opportunity to tell the ‘other side’ of the story. But it turns out that the U.S. and Russia — along with their mainstream media ecosystems — are equally horrendous. The inside story of nepotism, click-bait and propaganda at Ruptly. By Paula Schmitt The first thing I…
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December 23, 2014
Occupation: The missing context in Matti Friedman’s ‘inside story’
For several months now, a former Associated Press reporter in Jerusalem has been on a mission to ‘expose’ the media’s bias against Israel. Glaringly missing from his argument, however, is the occupation. By Daniel Reisel Following this summer’s bloody campaign in Gaza, former AP journalist Matti Friedman has dedicated himself to a series of media analysis…
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December 3, 2014
Israel’s top news channel: Gov’t asked us to show more Gaza devastation
Israeli consumers don’t want to know what’s happening on the other side, the station’s foreign editor explains. ‘We don’t serve the regime, we serve the consumerist regime.’ By Oren Persico / ‘The 7th Eye‘ During this summer’s Gaza war officials in the Prime Minister’s Office and Defense Ministry contacted Israel’s Channel 2 News, asking why they were not…
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The Seventh Eye
November 20, 2014
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