Israel's determination to prevent any possibility that its citizens be exposed to journalistic information that doesn't fit its national narrative first became evident even before the war began. But it has been far more evident since October 7, 2023. And in its battle over the boundaries of its citizens' consciousness, the state seems to have marked Palestinian journalists as a target and views journalistic coverage as enemy behavior.
Sunday morning, the police arrested two Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, both journalists are employed by a Turkish broadcaster...
According to their lawyer, they were arrested because of their journalistic work. Nor did the officers claim that the two had done anything unconnected to that work... The police told their lawyer they are suspected of behavior likely to disturb the peace. Apparently, the government and its enforcement agency hold the warped view that exposing the public to content that they don't control disturbs the peace. Harming journalists means harming freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom of occupation. But it also always harms the public's right to know....
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TheMcgwire commented to Harretz on X:
How you gonna publish this and not even mention Jeremy Loffredo?
WATCH: Max Blumenthal: I Spoke To Al Jazeera English About The Israel Police's Arrest, Detention And Continued Persecution Of Jeremy Loffredo For Doing Journalism That Already Cleared Its Military Censor
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🔗SOURCE ➡️ Haartez(archived) [X]
Related: 10/11- 🚨Max Blumenthal on Jeremy Loffredo: We Are Getting New Details By The Hour About Jeremy's Situation One Of His Colleagues,@ the_andrey_x, [just published a harrowing account of their arrest and abuse by Israeli authorities...
Loffredo Was Beaten And Detained In Israel For Reporting The Exact Same Information About Damage Caused By Iranian Strikes That PBS published.
10/11- Even Fox News Is Covering The Truth About Israel’s Genocide In Gaza - Targeting Journalists
Fox News Reporter Trey Yingst Condemns Israel’s ‘Unacceptable’ Killing Of More Than 100 Palestinian Journalists
10/10 — Israel Has Kidnapped American Journalist Jeremy Loffredo.
9/12 — Haaretz: Why Is Israel Afraid to Allow Foreign Journalists in Gaza? What's It Hiding?
9/10- A Year Into War, Israel Continues To Bar Access To Gaza For The International Media.... Never Before Has Israel Enforced Such A Long & Strict Information Blackout.
8/12- Israel Approves Proposal To Ban Al-Mayadeen Following Majdal Al-Shams Report
7/23- Israel Bombs Tent Of Journalists
6/20- Israeli Journalist Comments on Known Israeli Photojournalist Beat up By Settlers, With No Intervention By Israeli Authorities:
6/6 - Was October 7th Allowed to Happen To Further The Greater Israel Agenda? Did The Hannibal Directive Ever End? [X]— @PsyopDaily / TheMcgwire part 4 of Oct 7th series
Barely a week into the war, and Israel had wasted no time to kill journalists who were documenting and exposing their war crimes, hitting “the offices of 50 local and international media organisations had been targeted, including Al Jazeera, AFP, Ma'an News Agency and Al-Quds newspaper.”...
...At the same time Israel was expanding its war on hospitals in October, it was continuing and expanding its war on journalists.
As mentioned, by Oct 16th [2023], 11 journalists and 50 media offices had already been targeted, and Israel killed 75% of all journalists that died in war zones last year...
Rather than reigning in Israel, at this same time Israel was slaughtering journalists and their family members, Blinken had asked Qatar to reign in Al Jazeera’s war coverage (it was making Israel look bad)...
....Biden worrying about the coverage of the Israeli war was a direct result of public opinion rapidly turning against him, as reflected in these 3 polls published in the weeks prior...
6/5 — Dozens of Journalists Detained by Israel Face ‘Torture and Starvation’
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