What is behind Israel’s shutdown of Al Jazeera?
Israel says the Qatari-owned station’s lopsided coverage of the war endangers soldiers, but allies describe the closing of Its offices in Israel as an assault on press freedoms
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Defenders of Israel love to call it the Middle East's only democracy. But democracies don't censor the press
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Fast Forward White House ‘concerned’ after Netanyahu pledges to use new law to shutter al Jazeera in Israel
'The time has come to eject this herald for Hamas from our country,' Netanyahu said
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Opinion Qatar is harassing Israeli journalists at the World Cup
Despite the Abraham Accords, Israelis journalists in particular have born the brunt of Qatar's regressive media policies
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Fast Forward Al Jazeera Pulls Video Claiming Jews Inflated Numbers Of Holocaust Victims
Al-Jazeera’s AJ+ Arabic channel pulled a video it posted to its social media channels Friday night that claimed Jews exploit the Holocaust and that Israel is the genocide’s “greatest beneficiary.” Two journalists who created the video were later suspended. The seven minute-long, Arabic-language video asserted that though the Holocaust did occur, “it’s different from how…
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Opinion Alan Dershowitz: My Take On Al Jazeera’s Israel Lobby Documentary
Clayton Swisher has produced a film for Al Jazeera that used a Jewish undercover journalist pretending to be a Zionist to infiltrate and report on pro-Israel organizations. Now, in an op ed in these pages, Swisher is trying to use me to provide a “qualified seal of approval” for the unfairly one-sided video. But he…
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Opinion We Made A Documentary Exposing The ‘Israel Lobby.’ Why Hasn’t It Run?
You never know who you’re going to spot at the Doha Four Seasons in Qatar. So I was only somewhat surprised when I found myself standing next to Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz in the omelet line last Saturday. It was a fortuitous meeting. Dershowitz had recently played a small role in an episode that…
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Fast Forward Al Jazeera Undercover Reporter Was Intern At The Israel Project
The man suspected of working undercover for Al Jazeera to make a documentary film about Israel activism in Washington, D.C. managed to become an intern at the Israel Project, a leading pro-Israel advocacy non-profit, a new Haaretz report reveals. Al Jazeera has acknowledged sending an undercover reporter in 2016 to infiltrate pro-Israel organizations in the…
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