Court dismisses lawsuit against Likud’s MK due to parliamentary immunity
A magistrate court judge rejected a lawsuit against Knesset member Tali Gotliv, who spread defamatory lies against a political rival, citing parliamentary immunity • The judge ruled that it doesn’t matter whether the statements were true or false • Another far-right Knesset member who was sued for spreading false conspiracy theories is now seeking to dismiss the lawsuit against him as well • The chairman of the Democrats party, Yair Golan, who filed the lawsuit against Gotliv, announced he will appeal the decision
Spike in Murder Cases under Current Government
A sharp increase in murder cases in Israel since Itamar Ben-Gvir was appointed as the minister overseeing police – meanwhile, police stopped publishing the data
AI SLOP: The New Social Media Pollution
The bizarre and manipulative content flooding social media serves scammers looking to defraud users, politicians seeking to steal elections, and disrupts our very ability to maintain healthy public discourse
How to Make Atrocities That Are Happening an Hour’s Drive from Home Disappear: Eight Techniques of Israeli Mainstream Media
The way Israelis consume media today regarding what is happening in the Gaza Strip is not very different from how people consume press in dictatorial states, and in some ways is even worse • The result is not only a process of severe moral corruption both as individuals and as a society, but also the formation of patterns characteristic of a cult
We have never been in such a Hamas-like state
Israeli journalists jump to attention on command from the IDF spokesperson even when the army assassinates journalists • Beyond the moral and professional paltriness, they don’t understand that they are making their own blood permissible
Channel 14 Again Calls for Mass Murder and Genocide
Another call on Channel 14 for genocide and annihilation of women and children • In a special broadcast marking Tisha B’Av, panelist Dror Shalom, who presents himself as head of a department at the IDF Officers’ School: “I think I’m using the most civilized words possible, it’s destruction and annihilation of everything that moves there” • The host, Oded Menashe, expressed regret that “it doesn’t look like that’s where this is going” • Later, Shalom implicitly called for destroying Palestinian fetuses as well
Channel 14 Mocked Mother Whose Daughter Died of Starvation: She Ate Her Daughter
Channel 14 presenters Shimon Riklin and Tamir Morag joked with studio guests about a Gazan mother, suggesting that she ate her daughter
Judge Sohlberg: “CNN Should Be Treated Same as Al Jazeera”
Supreme Court deliberated in expanded panel on petition against “Al Jazeera Law” • Justice Barak-Erez wondered why the law lacks clear definition of harm to state security, but most of the judges’ criticism was directed at the petitioners, who claimed the law is unconstitutional and ineffective, that existing laws exist to deal with harmful broadcasts, and that the government uses security pretext to silence criticism and hide from the public the scenes from Gaza Strip • “What will we do next time CNN does an investigation on Sde Teiman, will we shut down CNN?”
Israel to Supreme Court: We Will Continue to Ban Journalists from Entering the Strip
After ten months delay, the state provided a response to the petition by the Foreign Press Association • Israel insists on continuing the media siege, claiming that journalists’ entry would pose a danger to forces, to Gazans, and to the journalists themselves, and would require adapting border crossings for human passage • The state also argues that there is no obligation under international law to allow coverage and that the association should be satisfied with coordinated visits accompanied by IDF spokesperson • So far, 139 foreign correspondents and 85 Israeli correspondents have entered the Strip in this manner • The state and the court continue to collaborate in delaying the handling of the petition: the hearing has been set for October
Why Does the Global Media Surrender to the Trumpist Mechanism?
The moment Trump erased the separation between personal and institutional, he trapped the media in an impossible bind • The power to resist lies not in ignoring the mechanism but in its relentless explanation
