Media groups have raised concerns about Israel's new media law and its implications for coverage of the ongoing conflict in Gaza. The law has led to increased censorship, with Israeli security services blocking reports and forcing newspapers like Haaretz to redact their own articles. One such report involved Mossad's pressure on the ICC prosecutor in 2022. On May 30, Haaretz published a heavily censored opinion piece on the use of administrative detention, where Palestinians are held indefinitely without charge or due process. Julian Assange's quote, 'What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear,' highlights the criticism against Israel’s censorship regime, which is seen as undermining democratic principles and freedom of the press.
🇮🇱🗞️ The only democracy in the Middle East made an Israeli newspaper redact their journalism. https://t.co/0QCZfSSCmE
Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published a censored opinion article which shows entire sections of text covering the use of administrative detention on Palestinians blacked out https://t.co/tBDgGBGvhD
Haaretz published an opinion piece "with chunks of text redacted, referencing a standing gag order preventing media from discussing “administrative detention” – a system under which Israeli forces hold Palestinians indefinitely w/o charge or due process." https://t.co/5Hvx0aMz0s
"What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.”—Julian Assange Israel’s censorship regime highlighted by @haaretzcom in article containing extensive █████ redactions: https://t.co/k9I5oe7Pyy
All articles "cleared" by censors should read like this. In another article today, Haaretz details a separate instance of state censorship: https://t.co/jvsigNYLc0 https://t.co/4bK9LOB4Sf https://t.co/IL4jAjDaPn
So indicative of a robust democratic country when one of its leading newspapers is forced to redact its own reporting with black redacted bars, because the story describes the abuses and lawlessness of Israel's brutal detention of Arabs in the West Bank, and that's not allowed: https://t.co/emV3x8mzGW
Haaretz is forced by Israel to redact their own reporting. “MUH ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST!” https://t.co/x5jzjjYxsL
Haaretz has had to black out its reporting due to order from Israel’s government censor 👇 https://t.co/mDGj8UsqoW
Israeli security services blocked a Haaretz report from emerging, which would spill the beans on Mossad pressure against the ICC prosecutor in 2022. Imagine other things they have blocked, and kept under the radar https://t.co/ChyBjbLVHM
Media groups have expressed concerns about the implications of Israel's new media law for coverage of the war in Gaza Israel's growing media censorship ⬇️ https://t.co/XStZnma4ZW