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Nov 28, 2024 | 
tagesspiegel.de | Ben Lynfield
zum Hauptinhalt © dpa/Ohad Zwigenberg Kontaktverbot für Regierungsvertreter und keine Werbung mehr für die Qualitätszeitung: Premier Netanjahu gestaltet Israels Medienlandschaft nach seinen Vorstellungen um. Von Ben Lynfield Heute, 17:18 UhrDie rechtsextreme Koalition unter Benjamin Netanjahu geht hart gegen kritische Medien vor. Damit wächst die Sorge, dass Israels Demokratie ausgehöhlt wird.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ben Lynfield
The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ben Lynfield
The Jewish Independent acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and strive to honour their rich history of storytelling in our work and mission.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ben Lynfield
The marking in Israel next Wednesday of Memorial Day for Yitzhak Rabin, the assassinated prime minister who signed the Oslo agreement with the PLO in 1993 and paid for it with his life two years later, may receive little media attention because of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon and the confrontation with Iran For those marking it, however, it will be an especially sad day because right now Rabin’s legacy and self-styled vision of ensuring Israel’s future, through reversing years of...
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
tagesspiegel.de | Ben Lynfield
zum HauptinhaltSie befinden sich hier:StartseiteInternationalesIsraels Parlament stimmt über Verbot des UN-Hilfswerks ab: Das Ende der Hilfe für Gaza? © IMAGO/APAimages/IMAGO/Omar Ashtawy \ apaimages Tagesspiegel Plus Israels Parlament stimmt über Verbot des UN-Hilfswerks ab: Das Ende der Hilfe für Gaza? Israel ist ein erklärter Gegner des Flüchtlingswerks für die Palästinenser – an diesem Montag könnte das Parlament UNRWA per Gesetz verbieten. Welche Folgen hätte das?
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Sarah Dawood |Martin Bright |Ben Lynfield
This article was first published on 5 April 2022 and is being republished following confirmation of her death in Russian custody. I was in Zaporizhzhia on the morning of 12 March. I wanted to get to Mariupol to write an article; I thought that I had to tell the truth from the blocked city. It was my initiative. I found out that a humanitarian convoy was going to Mariupol. I went to the assembly point but the convoy had already left. I contacted the authorities and asked them if I could catch it up.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Sarah Dawood |Martin Bright |Ben Lynfield
Hello, readers. This is Sarah Dawood here, the new editor of Index on Censorship. Every week, we bring the most pertinent global free speech stories to your inbox. This week, headlines have been dominated by the ongoing devastation of the war in the Middle East, where the death toll is now more than 42,000 in Gaza, and more than 2,100 in Lebanon. Monday also marked a painful milestone for Israelis and Jewish people everywhere, as the first anniversary of Hamas’s attacks, which killed 1,200 people.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Martin Bright |Ben Lynfield |Sarah Dawood
The Ukrainian government has confirmed the death of journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who died during a prisoner swap in September. Free expression organisations, including Index on Censorship, are calling on Russia to disclose the circumstances in which the 27-year-old died. According to Russian news outlet Mediazona, she died whilst being transferred from a prison in Taganrog, a city in the southwest of Russia near the Ukrainian border, to Moscow.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ben Lynfield |Sarah Dawood
Israel’s closure of Al Jazeera’s offices in the occupied West Bank is harming the Qatari network’s coverage in the territory and heightening fears for its journalists, says the news bureau’s chief Walid al-Omari. The closure, which happened on 22 September, was labelled an essential security step by Israeli officials, against what they describe as a Hamas mouthpiece.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ben Lynfield
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is promoting changes in legislation and law enforcement that could pave the way for a surge of politically-motivated arrests and other abuses by police, democracy watchdogs are warning.
