Die israelische Knesset verabschiedet das „Al-Jazeera-Gesetz“, das die Schließung ausländischer Nachrichtensender ermöglicht, die als staatsfeindlich gelten

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1. Israel learning from history, ironically.

2. Good, Al Jazeera is embedded in Hamas

3. This is a good move. Al Jazeera is a hostile organization, operating as an enemy of Israel.

4. Why stop at banning news channels?
   They might consider banning books they don’t like. Maybe a public book burning would be a nice idea.

5. This is definitely a slippery slope here….

6. A military necessity at this point. Qatar owns and operates Al Jazeera, and Qatar is a hostile actor against Israel. QED, don’t let your enemy destroy you from within.

7. A lot of westerners see Al Jazeera’s English coverage and think it’s a reputable source.

   Their Arabic coverage just makes shit up and fans the flames of any controversy involving Islam/the Arab world

   The average Al Jazeera comment section in Arabic is like Fox news but also wishing death on anyone you disagree with

8. It’ll be interesting to see how else this is applied.

9. Well that’s not at all fascist.

10. Democracy

11. Probably about as effective as the EU ban of RT/Sputnik.

    As in not at all

12. Everyone has absolute Freedom of speech.*

    *Except when we don’t like what you’re saying.

13. FOX NEWS is salivating as we speak.

14. Yeah after the whole hospital story situation I don’t blame them really, they blatantly make up stuff before the facts even happen and assume Israel is behind everything.

15. The righteous knights of freedom of speech rushing to defend *checks note* monarchy owned propagandist news channel. Stupid as always.

16. Russia, Israel, two peas in a pod.

17. Al Jazeera is a state media group owned by the Qatar government that doesn’t recognize Israel existence.

    Israel has no obligation to give a permit to those propagandists.

18. Al Jazeera Arabic literally reports on troop movements to give their favorite terrorists a fighting chance. They’re an enemy organization, and the Supreme Court should be embarrassed that they are putting up so many roadblocks to get rid of these cunts permanently.

19. They have been slandering Israel with blatant lies since the start. I mean making up rape stories and then issuing an apology as if it wasn’t a shining example of their bias, but rather a rare mistake, was enough for me. westerners need to realize Israel is not America; Israel is a democracy but very different than America. I mean for fuck’s sake the IDF acts a police force. If that doesn’t tell you Israel is very different, then idk what will

20. I am not learned enough about this to voice my on this topic.

21. Ok, so how long until they start banning all non-state run media? With the ultra-conservatives in charge currently, I can’t see this ending well in the long run.

22. Things autocracies do

23. Dictators gotta do their dictator stuff.

24. I can’t believe it took so long.

25. As expected, dictator country going to dictate.

26. Title seems a bit misleading, I thought they were shutting down not just Al Jazeera (rightfully so) but other news channels as well which seems quite undemocratic.

27. Dictators never like the press. Israel is looking like one more and more everyday. Netanyahu needs to go.

28. It’s already banned in many other countries in the Middle East for the same reason

29. Funny how they do this just after Al Jazeera’s reporting forced IDF to acknowledge they murdered two unarmed Palestinians and buried their bodies with bulldozers.

    Fuck zionism.

30. We (US) stopped RT America. Soooo..

31. It’s RT news for the Muslims. They are not objective.

32. Sounds like something Trump, Putin, or Orbán would do.