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CATEGORY: Israel
All the news that’s fake to print
Index on Censorship’s new editor rounds up the stories that have made headlines this week including disinformation around the Florida hurricane
Al Jazeera’s closure sets a dangerous precedent for journalism, says union
The shutdown of the West Bank news centre has been labelled a security step by Israeli officials, but a worrying form of press suppression by media workers, unions and academics.
One year on from 7 October: free speech violations in Israel and Palestine
Amongst the horrendous loss of life and destruction, journalists and peace activists have been persecuted. We summarise Index’s coverage of censorship throughout the conflict over the past 12 months
Telling fact from fiction
Journalistic “black holes”, such as in Gaza and Sudan, curtail people’s ability to understand geopolitics and conflict
Israel’s closure of Al Jazeera’s West Bank office is a blow to press freedom
This is just another example of Israel’s suppression of Palestinian journalists, which stops them from documenting the brutal war in Gaza
Israel’s trajectory into a nascent police state
Israel’s push towards authoritarianism by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is not slowing down during the country’s ever-expanding military operations. If anything, it is intensifying
The unstilled voice of Gazan theatre
Laura Silvia Battaglia recalls the last play she saw in Gaza and talks to its director today about how theatre is still providing a voice for the displaced, even in refugee camps
Exhibition about Russian political prisoners cancelled over Israel-Gaza row
A London art gallery has pulled an exhibition about Russian dissidents because an Israeli artist refused to condemn “the Zionist regime”
The silencing of media in times of war
National security arguments cannot become a tool to control free expression in democratic societies