🇮🇱The Israeli government has announced that it is severing ties with the Haaretz newspaper, The Times of Israel reports.
The government unanimously approved Communications Minister Shlomo Karai’s proposal that all government bodies or state-funded organizations not maintain any contact with Haaretz or publish any publications in it.
A statement from Karai’s office said the decision was made following numerous articles by the publication “undermining the legitimacy of the State of Israel in the world and its right to self-defense.”
The government’s decision was also said to have been influenced by recent comments by Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken at a newspaper conference in London, in which he described Israeli rule as a “brutal apartheid regime” and called some members of the Palestinian militias “freedom fighters.”
The Israeli Cabinet decision says the government “will not accept a situation in which the publisher of an official newspaper calls for sanctions against his country and supports the country’s enemies in the midst of a war.”
Haaretz co-owner Leonid Nevzlin, an associate of disgraced Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky, also condemned Shoken. He called his business partner’s statements “unacceptable and inhumane.”
Haaretz traditionally takes a leftist position. A number of its leading journalists openly state that they do not consider themselves Zionists, considering Zionism as a “type of imperialism.”
Very heavy flak when over the target. Getting very concentrated. Soon to go down in flames and be memory holed as an example. Last meal for a Bolshevik/Zionist, his own.
Great news. H’aretz is the most communist woke rag in print. It makes msnbc look like Rush Limbaugh. Now if we can get uncle sam to sever from npr
Last time I heard Freedom of Speech was a right in America.
Even speech you don’t like. Some limits like shouting “Fire” in a crowded theater as to prevent folks getting hurt, but OTHERWISE freedom of Speech.
You KNOW the Amendt that ALLOWS Sites like NC Renegade to exist?
I’m pretty sure some folks in the Potatoes government would love to see it gone.
But apparently like Ukraine unapproved speech in our “Greatest Ally Israel” is forbidden.
An attempt at deflection. Where did he say NPR should be legally abolished? I read “sever from NPR” to mean “stop funding NPR” or perhaps “stop granting NPR interviews”.
Is English your second language?
Israel SNIP The government unanimously approved Communications Minister Shlomo Karai’s proposal that all government bodies or state-funded organizations not maintain any contact with Haaretz or publish any publications in it.
Maybe I misunderstand but it seems pretty much a canceling of this “communist rag”.
If I misunderstood, I apologize, but NOTHING I said banning NPR.
Just SO MUCH Freedom in Democratic Israel.
Correct! Free to me means. Free from interference. Yes continued funding is interference manipulated algorithms is interference. Being told you go your way we will go ours sounds like freedom to me. So yes gov should stop fund ing the press.
Israel is a turd that won’t flush. Dismiss Jesus Christ, any wonder it’s a seat of evil?
They’re in the process of destroying themselves.
Defund NPR and PBS. Let Oprah, Tom Hanks, Rob Reiner, and the rest of the Hollywood elitist cabal fund them instead of us taxpaying Deplorables.