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Photo: Piotr VaGla Waglowski, http://www.vagla.pl, Wikimedia Commons
Columnist tears into “criminal” gov’t before new law makes it illegal
The Knesset yesterday passed in first reading a bill which has been described by most of the Israeli media as “The silencing law”. Under the bill, which is an amendment to the existing defamation law, the maximum compensation in a libel suit will increase exponentially from NIS 50,000 (~$13,000) to NIS 300,000, a whopping $80,000.…
By Dimi Reider November 22, 2011
Free speech, Caroline’s glitch, and other Jerusalem Post ditties
+972 is hosting today an op-ed written by B’Tselem chief Jessica Montell, in response to particularly insidious accusations levelled at the organisation by The Jerusalem Post star columnist, Caroline Glick. Montell’s op-ed doesn’t mince words – she calls Glick “a hack journalist who parrots any drivel” – but neither, to be fair, did Glick. Among…
By Dimi Reider January 21, 2011
B'tselem director Jessica Montell (photo: courtesy of Jessica Montell)
B’Tselem chief: “Caroline Glick a hack who parrots any drivel”
by Jessica Montell, B’Tselem | This op-ed is a response to Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick. Read more “Free speech enables us to speak the truth, even when such truth is harsh. So for example, I am free to say that Caroline Glick is a hack of a journalist, who parrots any drivel that suits…
By +972 Magazine January 21, 2011
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