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Israeli body that accredits journalists honored for propaganda
The official Israeli government body that accredits journalists has just been honored by the country’s PR association for enhancing Israel’s image abroad. Anyone who values an independent and free press should be alarmed. The government bureau responsible for accrediting journalists in Israel was honored last month by Israel’s association of public relations professionals for its work…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
October 4, 2017
Israel expels Dutch journalist after he tweets +972 articles
The Israeli government office responsible for accrediting journalists takes issue with a foreign correspondent sharing +972 Magazine articles on social media, publishing critical stories, refuses to renew his visa. Israel’s Government Press Office has refused to renew the media accreditation for Derk Walters, a Dutch journalist who has been reporting from Israel-Palestine since 2014. Walters is the…
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Lisa Goldman
May 4, 2017
IDF shuts down Palestinian radio station — but won’t explain why
The Israeli army shuts down the West Bank-based ‘A-Sanabel,’ claiming it incites against Israelis without so much as providing any evidence. Such is life under a military regime. The Israeli army shut down Palestinian radio station A-Sanabel in the early hours of Wednesday morning, arresting five of employees and confiscating equipment. According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit,…
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Haggai Matar
September 1, 2016
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A letter to our readers: On censorship
From military censorship to the government deciding who is and isn’t a journalist, Israeli authorities use various tools to interfere with the press. An important disclosure to our readers. When +972 Magazine was formed by a group of journalists and bloggers over five years ago, its founders decided that the site would not have an…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 15, 2016
Editorial: Demanding freedom of movement and access for Palestinian journalists
Palestinian journalists have published a petition aimed at pressuring Israel to grant them full freedom of movement and access in order to do their jobs, just as it allows Israeli journalists to work freely in Israel and Palestine. We at +972 support their petition and call on all of our Israeli and international colleagues to…
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August 5, 2013
Government Press Office doing PR for the settler movement
It seems that every state agency in Israel is becoming a tool in the effort to further colonize the West Bank and deepen the control over the lives of Palestinians. Soon after the government reached an internal “deal” with the settler movement that would keep the families who settled in a so-called “illegal” outpost on the…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 13, 2012
‘Bra-gate’: eyewitness account of humiliation at a media event
Last week Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – via Israel’s Government Press Office (GPO) – hosted a reception for international correspondents at Jerusalem’s David’s Citadel Hotel. I attended the event. The media were treated to an assortment of wine and hors d’oeuvres, a musical interlude performed by new immigrants, and then an address by the prime…
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Roee Ruttenberg
January 17, 2011
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