A look at the history of Israel’s Film and Theater Review Board reveals its major role in shaping the cultural image of the young state – and our worldview too
Banning Arab and Anti-occupation Films, This Censorship Agency Shaped Israel for Decades
Category: Censorship
Leaked New York Times Memo Tells Journalists To Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives.
Mainstream U.S. media is hiding key truths in its coverage of Iran’s retaliatory attack
The assertion that Israel is trying to provoke a wider regional conflict appeared nowhere in the mainstream media coverage of Iran’s retaliatory strike.
Watching the watchdogs: Israel’s attacks on journalists are backfiring
Israel is killing Palestinian journalists, banning foreign media from reporting on Gaza – and losing credibility.
Aid providers pulling out of Gaza, citing Israel’s failure to protect them (from itself) – Day 179
Israel makes humanitarian work deadly; airstrike on World Central Kitchen reportedly intentional; Palestinian doctors targeted; West Bank incarceration of Palestinians way up; Israel targets Al Jazeera News for closure; Gaza suffered about $18.5 billion in damages to critical infrastructure in the first four months of the Israeli bombardment; Islamophobia on the rise in US – tied to Gaza
Raise your Palestine I.Q. with these 6 good reads
Read up on the Palestine issue: a bit of history, a hostage’s account, thoughts on censorship and genocide, quick stops in Germany and the US, then back to Gaza.
Reports: executions of children, unarmed men by Israel – Day 173
Euro-Med reports 13 children executed in last week; footage of Israeli forces executing, burying unarmed men; the horror of childhood in Gaza; aid sites, hospitals are death traps; Biden admin’s self-contradiction on the world stage; poll says Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza; Israel prepares to censor Al Jazeera; Palestinians suspicious of US temporary pier; State Dept officer’s public resignation; German citizenship test; Netanyahu reaches out, more
Pro-Israel Right Declares War on Candace Owen
As Candace Owens continues to dissent against the pro-Israel right’s narrative on the war in Gaza, their calls for her cancellation and firing continue to escalate. (Even though many of these same people used to be the most vocal opponents of such repulsive tactics.)
The fates of Gaza and Julian Assange are sealed together
Article by Jonathan Cooke & a video of Tucker Carlson interviewing Stella Assange…
CNN runs Gaza coverage past bureau operating under shadow of IDF censor
Like all foreign news organizations operating in Israel, CNN’s bureau is subject to the rules of the IDF censor, which dictates subjects that are off-limits for news organizations to cover, and censors articles it deems unfit or unsafe to print…