Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member

Israel added to list of ‘worst jailers of journalists’ for first time
Israel is in sixth place after the Committee to Protect Journalists recorded 19 Palestinian journalists in its jails
A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released on Thursday said that for the first time Israel figures in its list of “worst jailers of journalists”, putting it on a par with Iran.
The worst offenders were China and Myanmar, two countries with a long history of suppressing free speech where each imprisoned more than 40 journalists in 2023. They were followed by Belarus, Russia and Vietnam.
Israel is in sixth place after the CPJ recorded 17 Palestinian journalists in its jails in December, the first time the country has featured among the worst offenders. It is now holding 19. Others were detained and released. Iran was also imprisoning 17 journalists.
This blows apart the pathetic claims that Israel is a functioning democracy. Its an authoritarian state like Iran and China..
A free press is necessary to any democracy.
But when the state suppresses things it doesnt like democracy dies. Where are the decent jewish people fighting this right wing autocracy ?