Israeli media

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PODCAST: Israel’s genocidal government is dissolving. Its legacy is here to stay
ACRI head Noa Sattath reflects on four years of far-right rule, and the paradox of defending democratic institutions in an apartheid state.
By +972 Magazine August 17, 2026
An Israeli soldier confronts a photographer documenting a raid on the Old City of Hebron, the occupied West Bank, October 4, 2025. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)
15 articles a day: The extent of the Israeli army’s media interference
In 2025, the military censor banned or redacted over 5,000 news reports, with suppression peaking during Israel’s war with Iran.
By Haggai Matar June 17, 2026
Raviv Drucker presents HaMakor's investigation into the killing of three Israeli hostages by Israeli soldiers. (Screenshot)
The farce of Israel’s ‘liberal’ investigative journalism
A recent exposé on the killing of three hostages by Israeli soldiers highlights how even critical news programs form part of an architecture of public denial.
By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) May 22, 2026
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PODCAST: Documenting the settler takeover of the West Bank
Oren Ziv reflects on two decades of reporting on Palestinian displacement and resistance, and what Israeli and international solidarity can achieve today.
By +972 Magazine February 13, 2026
Oracle's Larry Ellison and executive producer David Ellison arrive at the LA premiere of "Star Trek Into Darkness" at The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, May 14, 2013 (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images)
The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor
Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN, the Ellisons are constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach.
By Will Alden December 4, 2025
The front pages of newspapers in Israel at a shop in Jerusalem during the judicial overhaul, July 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldbeg/Flash90)
Breaking new records, Israel sees unprecedented spike in media censorship
In 2024, Israel's military censor banned 1,635 articles from publication and partially redacted another 6,265 — part of a wider assault on freedom of press.
By Haggai Matar May 2, 2025
A woman in Jerusalem watches Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference on her TV, September 28, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The ‘pact of silence’ between Israelis and their media
Israel’s long-subservient media has spent the past year imbuing the public with a sense of righteousness over the Gaza war. Reversing this indoctrination, says media observer Oren Persico, could take decades.
By Edo Konrad October 16, 2024
Members of the Turkish media seen during clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians after Friday prayers in East Jerusalem, December 15, 2023. [Nati Shohat/Flash90]
Israeli military censor bans highest number of articles in over a decade
The sharp rise in media censorship in 2023 comes as the Israeli government further undermines press freedoms, especially amid the Gaza war.
By Haggai Matar May 20, 2024
Journalists reports outside a protest encampment for Palestine at Columbia University, New York, April 23, 2024. (Pamela Drew/CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED)
Israeli media’s inevitable hysteria over U.S. campus protests
The media’s unbending self-censorship in covering Gaza has made Israelis incapable of seeing foreign criticism as anything other than antisemitism.
By Anat Saragusti April 29, 2024
Bezalel Smotrich speaks with Channel 12 News anchor Dana Weiss during the conference of Channel 12/the Israeli Television News Company in Tel Aviv, September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Journalism out, hasbara in: How Israeli TV news joined the Gaza war effort
Tectonic shifts in Israeli broadcasting have played a key role in shaping the country’s nationalist and militaristic discourse, with Oct. 7 marking their apex.
By Eyal Lurie-Pardes March 6, 2024
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023. (Flash90)
How Israeli journalists carry out PR for the army
Military reporters at Israel’s major news outlets consistently neglect to investigate the army and its conduct. October 7 is their failure too.
By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) February 19, 2024
Palestinians take part in a protest against the killing of journalist Yasser Murtaja near the Israel-Gaza fence, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 8, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
How a hasbara group’s sham investigation put Gaza journalists in the firing line
Honest Reporting’s claims against Palestinian photographers were echoed by Israeli leaders and media. But they’re factually and journalistically unfounded.
By Oren Ziv November 13, 2023
Dr. Ahmad Mahajna in Petah Tikva, December 14, 2022. (Oren Ziv)
A right-wing witch hunt got a Palestinian doctor suspended. Now the truth emerges
Ahmad Mahajna is still fighting for his job at a Jerusalem hospital following a smear campaign that falsely accused him of supporting terrorism.
By Oren Ziv December 14, 2022
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