Israel moves to shut down Al Jazeera after new law allows for ‘security threat’ bans on international media | CNN

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down news network Al Jazeera following the passage Monday of a sweeping law allowing the government to ban foreign networks perceived as posing a threat to national security.

Al Jazeera Media Network, which has produced dogged, on the ground reporting of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, slammed the decision in a statement, vowing it would not stop the network from continuing its “bold and professional coverage.”

Blocking Al Jazeera “marks an alarming escalation, and Israeli efforts restrict the freedom of the press and further limit the access that citizens of the world have to the daily realities in Israel and Palestine,” Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine Director Omar Shakir told CNN.

The White House also called reports of the move to shutter Al Jazeera “concerning.”

mightyfoolish,

To be fair Al Jazeera is “anti-Semitic” [read: doesn’t agree with Zionist propaganda]. Just like Tiktok which needs to be sold all of a sudden (I guess last year it wasn’t ran by the Chinese.) Anything “anti-Semitic” needs to be banned.

MeanEYE, (edited )
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

Well, they are quite sinister. AlJazeera in english vs arabic, two different worlds. Plus it’s a Qatar state owned news agency. That’s like saying national TV in China is going to do objective reporting. It’s not. Here’s a bit more detailed video of what they frequently like to do. Even DOJ ordered AlJazeera to register as foreign agent in USA.

John_McMurray,

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    masquenox,

    Oooh… sounds like South Africa in the 80s. You know… when the Apartheid-regime was at it’s most violent (and bombastic) to cover up the fact that they were losing their grip.

    FiniteBanjo,

    Yeah, honestly, every honest journalist is a security threat to the current Israeli Regime, so they’re basically declaring war on the news as a whole.

    masquenox,

    The problem for Isrel is this - when the Apartheid-regime banned something, they banned it. You couldn’t get hold of it or find it on radio - it was easy for them. It was the 80s - I remember because I was there.

    The Israelis want to “ban” something anybody in Israel with the shittiest free VPN can access - while giving Al Jazeera free press and credibility in the process.

    FiniteBanjo,

    The future is now, old man

    masquenox,

    The future is now,

    That’s what the pretend-smart people said back then, too.

    FiniteBanjo,

    I was making a joke, I’m not the person who downvoted you.

    theotherverion,

    Unfortunately democracy index was released few weeks ago, but would like to see how this change would affect it.

    Despite the fact AlJazeera spreads bullshit most of the time, a law like this can be easily used against other journals, as well.

    Linkerbaan,
    @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

    Aljazeera provides some of the greatest coverage your slander against them is unwarranted.

    theotherverion,

    They lack objectivity.

    frunch,

    Who would you recommend as a reliable, objective source for news?

    theotherverion,

    None is 100% objective but associated press, for example, is far better than AJ.

    mlg,
    @mlg@lemmy.world avatar

    Most of the stuff AP reports is usually reported by AJ first because they have more journalists in the area bruh

    theotherverion,

    Obviously Aljazeera has more journalists there but that does not change the fact their articles provide a lot of bias.

    Linkerbaan,
    @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

    If you still believe there’s a non biased newspaper I have very bad news for you and Santa isn’t real either.

    theotherverion,

    Every newspaper is somewhat biased but aljazeera is biased more than the others.

    GoodEye8,

    When most people considers them reputable the problem may be with you. Maybe you’re too biased to view Al Jazeera objectively?

    theotherverion,

    I don’t think the problem is with me. Feel free to check media bias fact check about aljazeera.

    GoodEye8,

    Have you checked it? From the looks of it it gets a more “mixed” rating because Al Jazeera has a separate opinions category. Opinions articles are almost always subjective and more prone to bias so that shouldn’t come as a surprise. However when it comes to actual coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict they seem to be pretty accurate. Netanyahu wouldn’t be trying to shut them down if they weren’t.

    theotherverion,

    It gets mixed reviews because of several not corrected fact checks and strong bias towards Qatar. By the way, the country it is located in is not even free.

    The opinion page also uses emotional language.

    So to summarize, it literally belongs to the same category as daily wire. Do you consider Daily wire credible?

    GoodEye8,

    Lol, you actually believe Daily wire and Al Jazeera are on the same level of credibility?

    Daily wire

    The Daily Wire presents news with a hyper-partisan conservative bias in reporting and wording. For example, headlines are usually sensational and utilize strong emotional language such as this: Democrats Boo God. Then They Quote The Bible To Attack Trump. Virtually every story favors the right and denigrates the left. However, the Daily Wire does not always report favorably on former President Trump and his policies.

    Al Jazeera

    In review, Al Jazeera reports news with minimally loaded wording in their headlines and articles such as this: UN approves team to monitor ceasefire in Yemen’s port city, and Erdogan delays Syria operation, welcomes US troop withdrawal. Both of these articles are properly sourced from credible news agencies. When reporting USA news, there is minimal bias in reporting such as this: Pentagon chief Mattis quits, cites policy differences with Trump. In general, straight news reporting has a minimal bias; however, as a state-funded news agency, Al Jazeera is typically not critical of Qatar.

    If anything that should actually make you question the methodology of their evaluation.

    theotherverion,

    I stated they belong to the same category.

    GoodEye8,

    Right. So the site with “In general, straight news reporting has a minimal bias” is as biased as the site with “Virtually every story favors the right and denigrates the left”. If that makes sense to you then you do you. I’m going to go continue living in the land of the sane.

    theotherverion,

    Your quotes are purposefully picked out of context.

    GoodEye8,

    I picked those out because I knew you’re too lazy to read an entire paragraph. Both quotes are very much the summaries of their respective paragraphs so I don’t consider them out of context.

    theotherverion,

    That’s the thing, I didn’t read entire paragraph but entire article

    GoodEye8,

    Then you’ve proven that either you can’t read or you’re heavily biased. No sane person would read both analyses and agree with the conclusion that they’re the same level of bias. They barely have anything good to say about the daily mail meanwhile Al Jazeera gets a whole paragraph that’s almost entirely positive, but somehow they’re the same…

    theotherverion,

    I have not said they are the same bias, I said they both have mixed ratings for multiple failed fact checks.

    MeanEYE, (edited )
    @MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

    Yea you should watch that channel in Arabic. Then claim they are objective. Here’s some video explaining what they like to do frequently. Plus it’s a state owned news agency… Qatar state owned no less. “Reputable” is not the word.

    blazeknave,

    I thought the point of a parliament is to shut dudes like him down. Eli5 please?

    deegeese,

    Just yesterday they were threatening Ireland with trade retaliation against a fellow “democracy”, today they’re banning news against the government.

    Netanyahu is the wannabe dictator of a genocidal apartheid state.

    Dasus,

    “Wannabe”?

    Therealgoodjanet,

    I guess the protests were a bit much for Bibi, so if he can pretend they are winning hard in Gaza, maybe the protests will stop. And in order to do that you can’t have some media cover the danger you pose to the hostages, so banning the media is the only logical option of course… /s

    Hyperreality,

    Israelis aren't watching Al-Jazeera and they aren't protesting because of human rights abuses in Gaza. They've been largely insulated from that as their media focus on the hostages and what happened on October 7th.

    bostonbananarama,

    They’ve also been fed dehumanizing propaganda about Palestinians for years. Easier to commit atrocities and not protest against them when you don’t see the victims as people.

    John_McMurray,

    It’s always hilarious how obvious it is to people, that foreign people are easily controlled by their local media, but the local one is totally honest guys.

    snek, (edited )
    @snek@lemmy.world avatar

    It breaks my fucking heart that almost all Israeli protests I see are about “getting our loved ones out of HELL” rather than stopping said HELL that your government has created, and saving both your loved ones and everyone else’s loved ones.

    But then again it seems that saying that the IDF is being genocidal will cost you your job in Israel (at least).

    I feel like the dehumanizing and erasure of Palestinians is far more widespread in Israeli society than I’d hoped for.

    Milk_Sheikh,

    This is more about denying Al-Jazeera and/or any ‘hostile’ media groups a location or office to station journalists. Qatar could broker a deal to set up high power broadcast towers along the border, plus there’s the internet, denying Israelis and Palestinians the ability to see Al-Jazeera content is not the goal.

    The goal is to stop you and I from seeing what has been happening since Oct 7th, or make reporting with any hope of accuracy impossible. Without an office to base journalists to do fact-checks, interviews, on scene investigations, etc they are forced to rely on the same bad methods as someone overseas - public information and social media.

    crusa187,

    Bibi also working hard on the alternative strategy of murdering the journalists. Desperate to control the narrative but the cat’s already out of the bag, it’s genocide plain and simple.

    John_McMurray,

    Pretend?

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