I guess banning them is easier than shooting Al Jazeera journalists in the face.
Way less fun for the IDF militants unfortunately.
Are you kidding me? That is a shame, Al Jazeera has always been known as a voice of dissidence, but also of reason and transparent reporting.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Proposed earlier this week by Israeli communications minister Shlomo Karhi, the regulations would allow officials to “halt media broadcasts and confiscate broadcast equipment if an outlet’s output is seen to harm national security, public order, or serve as a basis for ‘enemy propaganda,’” according to the Times of Israel.
“We are deeply concerned by Israeli officials’ threats to censor media coverage of the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, using vague accusations of harming national morale,” Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, said in a statement.
“Israel’s pattern has been that, in times of war, there’s military censorship,” Jon Alterman, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told The Washington Post.
In 2008 Israel accused Al Jazeera of being a “tool of Hamas,” the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, and launched a boycott of the station.
At the time, the executive secretary of Israel’s Foreign Press Association, Glenys Sugarman, told Reuters that “changing the law in order to shut down a media organization for political reasons is a slippery slope.”
“[But] during the intifadas, during wartime, there’s a persistent sense that Al Jazeera, as a station, is rooting for Israel’s enemies,” Alterman said.
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