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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
Armed settlers assaulted a Palestinian man. Guess who’s in jail?
Hafez Hureini had both his arms broken by settlers while he was working on his land. Now he's in detention, while his attackers remain free.
By
Oren Ziv
September 19, 2022
How Israeli media reported a ‘lynching’ that never happened
Armed Israeli settlers attacked a group of farmers, then told the media they were ambushed by 30 Palestinians. Here's what really happened.
By
Basel Adra
and
Yuval Abraham
September 15, 2022
I spent a week watching the Israeli Fox News. Here’s what I learned
Now 14 is a look into the right’s paranoid stream of consciousness, which loathes progressives, loves settlements, and remains loyal to King Bibi.
By
Noam Sheizaf
January 18, 2022
The Bibi effect: How Israeli media became a far-right echo chamber
Netanyahu turned much of the Israeli press into his personal fiefdom during his 12 years in power — with drastic consequences that resonate to this day.
By
Pnina Pfeuffer
November 24, 2021
Israel’s top news show falsely accuses +972 writer of framing settlers for arson
Channel 12 claims Basil al-Adraa set a structure on fire during a settler pogrom on a Palestinian village. The evidence shows absolutely nothing of the sort.
By
Oren Ziv
October 7, 2021
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