06.09.2019

What Israeli media gets wrong about Palestinian voters

As long as journalists don’t challenge the mainstream segregationist narrative in Israeli society, they will have negligible impact on Arab voter turnout, says Palestinian sociologist Dr. Maha Karkabi Sabah

Oren Persico

17.04.2019

יונית לוי, מגישת חדשות 12, בפרסומת למשדרי הבחירות (צילום מסך)

Palestinians nearly absent from Israel's Election Day news broadcasts

Israel’s leading news outlets included not a single Arab panelist on Election Day. The other stations didn’t fare much better

Oren Persico

08.10.2018

פרט מתוך הקריקטורה שהביאה להפסקת עבודתו של אבי כץ ב"ג'רוזלם ריפורט"

'Criticizing the government nowadays makes you a traitor'

Avi Katz, the cartoonist let go by ‘The Jerusalem Report’ over a caricature depicting Netanyahu and Likud lawmakers as characters from ‘Animal Farm,’ talks about what happened behind the scenes, why accusations of anti-Semitism are so off-base, and what the saga says about freedom of expression in Israel today

Oren Persico

07.08.2018

Israel arrests six Palestinian journalists for alleged incitement

Dozens of Palestinian journalists protest to demand the release of 21 of their colleagues currently imprisoned by Israel

Oren Persico

27.05.2018

Is this the end of 'apartheid polls' in Israeli media

Jews-only polls on matters relevant to the entire Israeli public and polls that present Jews-only polls as representing the views of the entire Israeli public constitute discrimination against the country's Arab population, Israeli Press Council's Ethics Court rules

Oren Persico

07.06.2017

"Facebook thinks, behaves and acts as if it is above the law"

Class action suit: Facebook has created a huge biometric and unlawful database and thereby breaches the right of privacy of the Israeli general public • "Facebook wants to know everything about every individual and every user"

Oren Persico

29.12.2016

General view of the West Bank city of Hebron, January 28, 2008. Photo by Michal Fattal/Flash90

Report: Sharp spike in repression of Palestinian journalists

Two new reports document the growing repression of Palestinian journalists by Israeli forces last year. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Israel is currently imprisoning the same number of journalists as the Syrian regime

Oren Persico

28.09.2016

A wave of terror. A screenshot from Channel 2 news

When the media doesn't talk to Arabs, coverage of them is negative

New research finds a direct correlation between negative media coverage of Arab society in Israel and the exclusion of Arab voices and interviewees in that coverage

Oren Persico

25.09.2016

Thou shall not discriminate: New rules for Israeli journalists

The Israel Press Council approves a change to ethics rules that forbids journalists and media outlets from discriminating against and excluding certain populations from their coverage. Among those opposing the change: the editor of Israel Hayom and the publisher of Haaretz

Oren Persico

01.05.2016

The graphic, reprinted un-ironically by Israeli website NRG, was created by UK satirical website The Poke (Photo from The Poke.co.uk)

Oops? Israeli news site reports ISIS 'threat' to win Eurovision

The song, "Death to the West", "sounds quite thematically heavy, but I'm sure audiences the world over will love the uplifting chorus", the all-too-serious report quotes an all-too-made-up Islamic State spokesperson saying

Oren Persico

22.04.2016

Only 2% of interviewees in Israeli media are Arab

Since the 'Representation Index' was launched, however, that number has gone up — dramatically. The index also tracks whether Arabs are interviewed in positive or negative contexts

Oren Persico

15.07.2015

Supreme Court: 'Fascist' Im Tirzu case had no standing

Supreme Court rules that the right-wing Im Tirzu movement had no basis to sue a group of Facebook activists who labeled it fascist

Oren Persico

25.03.2015

Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed houses in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood on July 27, 2014. Photo by Emad Nassar

IDF: Nothing illegal in Gaza strike that killed three journalists

The chief military prosecutor investigates the IDF’s killing of three journalists and finds that ‘the [mortar] fire was carried out in accordance with Israeli and international law,’ in response to intensive fire toward IDF troops

Oren Persico

06.03.2015

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset. Jerusalem, May 18, 2015. Photo by Yonatan Sindel

Israel Hayom and Netanyahu's shared fear of Arab voters

The prime minister's gravest allegation against those working against his re-election is that they are trying to raise voter participation among Arab citizens of Israel. Israel Hayom, meanwhile, has decided that Arab voters’ opinions just don’t count

Oren Persico

04.03.2015

Hanin Zoabi. Jerusalem District Court, October 27, 2015. Photo by Yonatan Sindel

All but one Israeli news site gives prominence to Zoabi attack

Out of the main Israeli news websites, only Ynet decides to play down its coverage of the attack on MK Haneen Zoabi

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The Seventh Eye staff writer. Read the original articles in Hebrew here

What Israeli media gets wrong about Palestinian voters

As long as journalists don’t challenge the mainstream segregationist narrative in Israeli society, they will have negligible impact on Arab voter turnout, says Palestinian sociologist Dr. Maha Karkabi Sabah

Palestinians nearly absent from Israel's Election Day news broadcasts

Israel’s leading news outlets included not a single Arab panelist on Election Day. The other stations didn’t fare much better

'Criticizing the government nowadays makes you a traitor'

Israel arrests six Palestinian journalists for alleged incitement

Dozens of Palestinian journalists protest to demand the release of 21 of their colleagues currently imprisoned by Israel

Is this the end of 'apartheid polls' in Israeli media

Jews-only polls on matters relevant to the entire Israeli public and polls that present Jews-only polls as representing the views of the entire Israeli public constitute discrimination against the country's Arab population, Israeli Press Council's Ethics Court rules

"Facebook thinks, behaves and acts as if it is above the law"

Class action suit: Facebook has created a huge biometric and unlawful database and thereby breaches the right of privacy of the Israeli general public • "Facebook wants to know everything about every individual and every user"

Report: Sharp spike in repression of Palestinian journalists

Two new reports document the growing repression of Palestinian journalists by Israeli forces last year. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Israel is currently imprisoning the same number of journalists as the Syrian regime

When the media doesn't talk to Arabs, coverage of them is negative

New research finds a direct correlation between negative media coverage of Arab society in Israel and the exclusion of Arab voices and interviewees in that coverage

Thou shall not discriminate: New rules for Israeli journalists

The Israel Press Council approves a change to ethics rules that forbids journalists and media outlets from discriminating against and excluding certain populations from their coverage. Among those opposing the change: the editor of Israel Hayom and the publisher of Haaretz

Oops? Israeli news site reports ISIS 'threat' to win Eurovision

The song, "Death to the West", "sounds quite thematically heavy, but I'm sure audiences the world over will love the uplifting chorus", the all-too-serious report quotes an all-too-made-up Islamic State spokesperson saying

Only 2% of interviewees in Israeli media are Arab

Since the 'Representation Index' was launched, however, that number has gone up — dramatically. The index also tracks whether Arabs are interviewed in positive or negative contexts

Supreme Court: 'Fascist' Im Tirzu case had no standing

Supreme Court rules that the right-wing Im Tirzu movement had no basis to sue a group of Facebook activists who labeled it fascist

IDF: Nothing illegal in Gaza strike that killed three journalists

The chief military prosecutor investigates the IDF’s killing of three journalists and finds that ‘the [mortar] fire was carried out in accordance with Israeli and international law,’ in response to intensive fire toward IDF troops

Israel Hayom and Netanyahu's shared fear of Arab voters

The prime minister's gravest allegation against those working against his re-election is that they are trying to raise voter participation among Arab citizens of Israel. Israel Hayom, meanwhile, has decided that Arab voters’ opinions just don’t count

All but one Israeli news site gives prominence to Zoabi attack

Out of the main Israeli news websites, only Ynet decides to play down its coverage of the attack on MK Haneen Zoabi