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‘Partly free’? The real state of Israeli press freedom is much worse
Freedom House has downgraded its ranking of Israel’s media from ‘free’ to ‘partly free,’ citing closer ties to the government and a spike in paid media content. But it has one flagrant omission: Israel’s poor treatment of Palestinian journalists. By Lisa Goldman Freedom House, the U.S.-based watchdog NGO that reports on the state of civil…
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Lisa Goldman
April 28, 2016
Fact-checking Netanyahu: A week full of truthiness
From surreal exaggerations to outright lies, Netanyahu dished up another batch of nonsense utterings to a foreign audience in Berlin this week. We picked three of the best and broke them down for you. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has something of a track record of saving his most nonsensical and demonstrably false statements for foreign…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
February 17, 2016
Press freedom in Israel: Democracy in the age of self-censorship
More worrying than the institutional instruments that enable censorship are the multiple forms of self-censorship that are deeply ingrained in the journalistic practices and conventions of Israeli media. By Ido Liven As the Hebrew proverb goes, “be a tail among lions rather than a head among foxes.” In Freedom House’s latest report, Israel’s state of press…
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May 7, 2013
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25 October: a prodigal journalist returns home
The Headlines: Inaction Inertia > The government threw its support behind a bill that would enshrine Jerusalem’s status as a national priority area, ensuring the city continues to receive special budgetary support. The decision applies to all parts of the city as claimed by Israel, including territory which is considered occupied under international. This may…
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Roi Maor
October 25, 2010
Internal Security violated agreement with Haaretz to get to Anat Kamm
The prosecution in Anat Kamm’s trail admitted today that the Shabak (Israel’s internal security service, formally known as Shin Beit), ignored the agreement it signed with Haaretz reporter Uri Blau in order to expose the source for a story he published. In a research article published two years ago in Haaretz, Blau reveled that senior…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 22, 2010
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