On April 1st
Israel: new law granting closure of foreign media outlets threatens media freedom
Today that law was put into action
Sun 5 May 2024 17.53 BSTLast modified on Sun 5 May 2024 18.54 BST
Foreign Press Association decries move under new law based on claim network is a threat to national security
Israeli authorities shut down the local offices of Al Jazeera on Sunday, hours after a government vote to use new laws to close the satellite news network’s operations in the country.
Critics called the move, which comes as faltering indirect ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas continue, a “dark day for the media” and raised new concerns about the attitude to free speech of Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government.
What makes you think that the law cannot be amended to include Israeli media?
Channel 11?
Haaretz?
+972 Magazine?
Anyone who prints, televises, or records anything contradicting the official IDF and Government “facts” should now be worried, the first legislative shot has been fired.
Don’t forget the Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war.
Israel is hardly the first to try silencing, remember the embedding of journalists in the Afghan and Iraqi wars?
The treatment of whistle-blowers.
Total Control of the Narrative is Fascism 101.
I don’t care whose side you are on
Just take it as a warning to all.
First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me