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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC Conference in Washington D.C. on March 6, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

New Al Jazeera film uncovers ‘rotting foundation’ of U.S. Israel lobby

A new Al Jazeera documentary provides a sobering look at a lobby that continues to defend Israel’s control of Palestinian lives, despite the many Americans turning against it. By Antony Loewenstein There’s a moment near the end of the four-part, Al Jazeera documentary on the U.S. Israel lobby — censored by its own network due to pressure from…

By +972 Magazine November 1, 2018

A Palestinian woman works at the Al Jazeera TV station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 14, 2009. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Following pressure, Israel halts decision to revoke Al Jazeera reporter’s credentials

The government sought to revoke Elias Karram’s press accreditation after he expressed solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. The decision was reversed following pressure by the Union of Journalists in Israel. By +972 Magazine Staff Two weeks after announcing it would revoke the press credentials of senior Al Jazeera reporter Elias Karram, Israel’s Government Press Office said Wednesday that it…

By +972 Magazine August 31, 2017

Workers at the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel revoking Al Jazeera reporter’s credentials — for being a patriot

The Government Press Office is trying to rescind Elias Karram’s press credentials after he expressed support for the Palestinian cause. It hasn’t done the same for uniformed Israeli-soldier reporters. Israel’s Government Press Office announced Wednesday that it was revoking press credentials from a senior Al Jazeera reporter in the country. The GPO cited a statement he…

By Haggai Matar August 17, 2017

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Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau, June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s empty threat to ‘shut down’ Al Jazeera

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara held a press conference at which he promised to ‘close’ Al Jazeera. He doesn’t exactly have that type of authority, let alone the ability. By Moshe Ronen Israel’s new communications minister, Ayoub Kara, declared this week that he would act to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel. Speaking at a…

By +972 Magazine August 9, 2017

A Palestinian woman works at the Al Jazeera TV station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 14, 2009. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Forget Al Jazeera — Bibi should halt his own government’s incitement

Netanyahu is calling to shut down Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau, accusing the station of incitement to violence amid tensions over the Temple Mount. Has he heard what his own ministers have been saying recently? Palestinian incitement has long been Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scapegoat for the lack of progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For him, Palestinian…

By Edo Konrad July 27, 2017

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving final remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before Trump's departure, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Trump effect hits Gaza

No, Trump did not create the rift between the PA and Hamas. But he has bought into the Israeli narrative, thus creating an environment that encourages more aggressive steps by stronger parties. The most dangerous part? Trump surely has no idea he did any of this. By Mitchell Plitnick The effects of Donald Trump’s trip…

By +972 Magazine July 3, 2017

Nurses console each other as they evacuate babies during a regime attack on a children’s hospital in Aleppo. (Al Jazeera screenshot)

Al Jazeera video captures horror at Aleppo children’s hospital

The attack, scenes of which have been airing all day across the Arab world, comes after a week of relentless bombardment by the Assad regime, during which Aleppo’s battered medical facilities have been forced out of service or underground. In a devastating video broadcast by Al Jazeera Saturday, two nurses in an Aleppo children’s hospital break…

By Samer Badawi November 19, 2016

A Palestinian man from Gaza walks down an open air corridor at the Erez Crossing terminal, the northern checkpoint leading from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in the area of Beit Hanun, February 14, 2012. (Photo by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Is Gaza still occupied? New video aims to settle the debate

What do you call a situation in which one country’s army controls a foreign population’s imports and exports, border crossings and airspace, population registry, and even how much electricity it can produce? Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of the occupied Gaza Strip in 2005, during what became known as “the disengagement.” As a…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 25, 2015

Yasser Arafat during a visit to the Danish Parliament in 1999. (photo: Hans Jørn Storgaard Andersen)

More subtle than it seems: The mystery of Arafat’s death

Nine years on, Yasser Arafat’s death brings up more questions than answers. Speculation runs rampant as to the nature of his death, while the potential for a scientifically conclusive cause of death, let alone the identity of a possible perpetrator, fades away. By Marian Houk In “Killing Arafat,” a recent Al-Jazeera documentary on the mysterious…

By +972 Magazine November 18, 2013

Palestinian workers holding an Israeli work permit wait in line to board an Israeli bus designated for Palestinians only after the Eyal checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Qalqiliya, March 4, 2012. The Israeli transportation ministry launched a bus line designated for Palestinians only, running from Eyal checkpoint to Tel Aviv and Kfar Saba, and back to the checkpoint. The line was opened after Israel settlers living in the West Bank complained that Palestinians use Israeli buses that run through the West Bank on their way to and from work inside Israel. The new policy will mainly effect workers returning to the West Bank with Israeli buses, as police will force workers to go off buses when they enter the West Bank. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

WATCH: Al Jazeera takes on the segregated bus debate

Al-Jazeera’s Inside Story covers the segregated bus debate and the question of apartheid in Israel. Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna is joined by Ben White, Mustafa Barghouti and Gregg Roman in what turns out to be probably the biggest shellacking of an Israeli spokesperson I have ever seen on a mainstream news network. To be fair,…

By Omar H. Rahman March 9, 2013

A Pakistani man sits on a street in Doha, Qatar in front of luxury vehicles, July 2011 (photo: PeregrinoWillReigh/fickrcc)

Marginalized groups that Qatari PR would rather you not see

The American network CBS – via its flagship news magazine show, “60 Minutes” – gave the tiny peninsula Kingdom of Qatar a free ride in its report earlier this year exploring the small gulf nation. Correspondent Bob Simon, dubbed by the network itself as “the most honored journalist in international reporting,” delivered a public relations…

By Roee Ruttenberg May 3, 2012

Soon to be pixilated? IDF gunmen, led by a Lt. Col., harrassing journalists in Al Ma'asara (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

IDF treats pregnant NYT journalist “cruelly” at Gaza crossing

News sources reported during the day on the humiliating harassment of a foreign journalist by IDF soldiers, as she tried to enter Israel from a Gaza crossing. According to IDF radio (Hebrew) and the Jerusalem Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning, veteran photographer Lynsey Addario, working for the New York Times, was returning to Israel after an assignment…

By Dahlia Scheindlin November 28, 2011

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WATCH: New York Times and Al Jazeera commentary on Anat Kamm

I have a brief op-ed up on the New York Times and in today’s International Herald Tribune, discussing the repercussions of Anat Kamm’s sentence. One of the things I wanted to highlight is the highly disturbing insinuation reflected in the decision to prosecute Kamm on the charges of espionage. Does that mean that informing the public…

By Dimi Reider November 2, 2011