Posted on 11/24/2024 6:34:23 PM PST by Milagros
The Cabinet move came in response to "numerous articles that harmed the legitimacy of the State of Israel in the world and its right to self-defense."
(Nov. 24, 2024 / JNS) Israeli government ministers on Sunday voted to cut all connection with the left-wing Haaretz daily.
The Cabinet decision came, according to a statement from Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi’s office, in response to “numerous articles that harmed the legitimacy of the State of Israel in the world and its right to self-defense, particularly in light of the recent statements by the publisher of Haaretz, Amos Schocken, who expressed support for terrorism and called for sanctions against the government.”
Karhi explained, “We cannot allow a reality in which the publisher of an official newspaper in the State of Israel calls for sanctions against it and support the state’s enemies in the midst of a war, while international bodies harm the legitimacy of the State of Israel, its right to self-defense, and actually impose sanctions against it and against its leaders.”
At a Haaretz-organized London conference on Oct. 27, Schocken urged that sanctions be imposed on the Jewish state, accused the government of imposing apartheid[sic] rule in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, referred to Palestinian terrorists as “freedom fighters (sic)” and claimed that the Israel Defense Forces was carrying out a second nakba, or “catastrophe” (the Arab term for the creation of the modern-day State of Israel in 1948).
In response to the remarks, several Israeli government ministries vowed to cancel business ties with Haaretz, including the Foreign, Education, Culture and Sport, and Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism ministries.
Sunday’s government decision halts all state-paid advertising, state-funded subscriptions and other connections with the newspaper.
Haaretz lost hundreds of subscribers due to Schocken’s remarks, news site Walla reported earlier this month. The financial blow to the paper is “one that has not been seen in many years,” Haaretz stated, according to Walla, adding that during internal meetings there was talk of “a crazy rate of cancellations and a sharp drop in newspaper advertising.”
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Yariv Levin is seeking to advance a bill that would criminalize calls by Israeli citizens for international sanctions against the Jewish state. Under the proposed law, offenders could face up to 20 years in prison for public calls for sanctions against “Israel, its leaders, members of the security forces and Israeli citizens.”
According to Levin, calls for boycotts are “tantamount to encouraging and promoting a move whose actual purpose is the denial of Israel’s right to self-defense. This act is all the more serious when committed during an existential war and while our daughters and sons are being held in inhumane conditions by a murderous terrorist group.”
There is no limits to self loathing Jews either in Isreal, the USA or elsewhere.
Good for Israel 🇮🇱. I hope everyone else does the same thing.
About time. Just like we need to cut public funding to NPR/PBS.
<< Haaretz lost hundreds of subscribers due to Schocken’s remarks >>
Hundreds? Seems there should be a lot more cancellations than that, considering that the publisher just openly revealed himself to be a jihadi bedfellow. But then again most Haaretz readers are as well.
I believe there were masses. I think “hundreds” was a typo.
good move.
Especially with Amna Nawaz propaganda for Islamists.
Haaretz should be renamed The Kapo Chronicle since they think they will avoid the Islamonazis’ wrath if Israel ever is destroyed.
Criminalizing “calls for boycott” violates free speech principles.
It’s the sort of thing that Ukraine, Russia, and the woke Western left are condemned here for.
I wonder if this is a sign of an impending civil split amoung the Jews similar to the political civil unrest with the republican party.
If certain Israelis can’t find it within themselves to support Israel’s right to exist securely, they should leave.
I’m leaving my job for a variety of reasons not the least of which is a fella who continously spouts antisemitic and racist Shiite
I have never heard the crap I’ve heard, in volume or breadth, in my entire life.
Throughout history, the greatest enemies if the Jews came from within our own ranks. Amos Schocken is among them, the scumbag.
Rot in hell Haaretz.
Leftist toilet papet.
Haaretz is just al Jazeera masquerading as Hebrew.
Absolutely
It’s the sort of thing that Ukraine, Russia, and the woke Western left are condemned here for.
Exactly right.
I never understood this, till recently when I realized than about half of whites in America have the same problem.
The LEft in Israel (ie the bureaucracy and judiciary) is keeping conservatives from having radios, and trying to criminalize conservatives owning any newspapers. And you think the right is attacking free speech because invidividuals are boycotting or calling for a boycott, there is censorship by the right? LOL, comrade
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