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Workers at the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem, June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Will Israel shut down Al Jazeera?

The government is advancing regulations to close the network's Israel branch, a move journalists and free press defenders decry as baseless and dangerous.

By Oren Persico and The Seventh Eye November 1, 2023

Palestinians hold a mass for the late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Beit Hanina, occupied East Jerusalem, May 7, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Shireen could have been any one of us

Shireen’s killing has channeled endless energy into the hearts of Palestinian journalists, leaving us more determined to expose the atrocities of occupation.

By Vera Sajrawi May 11, 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC Conference in Washington D.C. on March 6, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

New Al Jazeera film uncovers ‘rotting foundation’ of U.S. Israel lobby

A new Al Jazeera documentary provides a sobering look at a lobby that continues to defend Israel's control of Palestinian lives, despite the many Americans turning against it.

By Antony Loewenstein November 1, 2018

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Soon to be pixilated? IDF gunmen, led by a Lt. Col., harrassing journalists in Al Ma'asara (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

IDF treats pregnant NYT journalist “cruelly” at Gaza crossing

News sources reported during the day on the humiliating harassment of a foreign journalist by IDF soldiers, as she tried to enter Israel from a Gaza crossing. According to IDF radio (Hebrew) and the Jerusalem Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning, veteran photographer Lynsey Addario, working for the New York Times, was returning to Israel after an assignment…

By Dahlia Scheindlin November 28, 2011

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WATCH: New York Times and Al Jazeera commentary on Anat Kamm

I have a brief op-ed up on the New York Times and in today’s International Herald Tribune, discussing the repercussions of Anat Kamm’s sentence. One of the things I wanted to highlight is the highly disturbing insinuation reflected in the decision to prosecute Kamm on the charges of espionage. Does that mean that informing the public…

By Dimi Reider November 2, 2011

Was Samir Allawi's arrest a false arrest? Illustration (Photo: Mindsay Mohan, Flickr)

Shin Bet releases detained Al-Jazeera reporter after 49 days’ imprisonment

How the occupation justice system saved face in the case of Samer Allawi In his influential book about the occupation circa early 1987, “The Yellow Wind,” David Grossman describes an unusual scene in a military court in the West Bank. The defense shows incontrovertible proof that the defendant cannot possibly be guilty of the crime…

By Yossi Gurvitz September 28, 2011

Supreme Court (Photo: Flickr/ActiveStills)

Now that boycott law passed, government to target High Court

Neve Gordon argues that the 'boycott bill' is a turning point in the erosion of Israeli democracy, and part of the Knesset's greater strategy in which the next target is the Supreme Court.

By +972 Magazine July 18, 2011

palestinian flag illustration (Photo: untitled/Alaa AboAsad)

Reflections on Nakba Day 2011, from the Palestinian diaspora

By Mahdi Sabbagh Following the inspiring yet tragic events of May 15th, when many Palestinians in various countries demonstrated to mark Nakba Day, and the general build-up to that day, I have been attempting to make sense of the protests, Israel’s brutal response and the political connotations and media craze that followed; not so much…

By +972 Magazine May 22, 2011

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Robert Fisk on Osama Bin Laden; Middle East revolutions more important

Robert Fisk on Al Jazeera English this morning recalls meeting Osama Bin Laden and pontificates on Al Qaeda’s irrelevance in the current Arab world. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZPjB4WHQs&feature=player_embedded#at=85[/youtube] h/t Antony Lowenstein

By Joseph Dana May 3, 2011

Al Jazeera reporter: Revolution is inspiring but divide is growing

I had the pleasure yesterday to interview an Al Jazeera reporter stationed in Cairo, for the Hebrew foreign affairs blog I co-manage, Kav Hutz. Some of the questions were submitted by our readers. Was the reporter taken off guard by the events? Inspired? Is the opposition losing the masses? Is the military splitting? Are women playing…

By Dimi Reider February 5, 2011

Shoot the messenger: Blaming Al Jazeera for the Palestine Papers

The so-called Palestine Papers, the first of which were released this week by Al Jazeera, have fallen into a trap seen all too frequently. Rather than dealing with the actual message and content, those affected by the leak instead have chosen to shoot the messenger One Palestinian official directly targeted the country that hosts and…

By Roee Ruttenberg January 26, 2011

Palestine Papers reveal limits of Israeli power

The Palestine Papers themselves are not that interesting or revelatory. However, the way they have been paraded in the media in the mere 24 hours since their release is. If you take a look at the vast amounts of coverage, reactions and commentaries, they are all framed in the discourse of a simple power struggle.…

By Mairav Zonszein January 24, 2011

A security guard for a private agency in Beirut (photo: Lisa Goldman)

‘Bra-gate’: eyewitness account of humiliation at a media event

Last week Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – via Israel’s Government Press Office (GPO) – hosted a reception for international correspondents at Jerusalem’s David’s Citadel Hotel. I attended the event. The media were treated to an assortment of wine and hors d’oeuvres, a musical interlude performed by new immigrants, and then an address by the prime…

By Roee Ruttenberg January 17, 2011