Israeli repression aims to silence Palestinian journalists
Mohammed Zaanoun ActiveStills Settler colonial enterprises aim to keep the dispossessed from documenting their experiences as part of a wider attempt to dominate and dehumanize them, to quash every element of their independence. Israel’s violence against Palestinian journalists is one such example. In 2019, the World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists adopted a motion from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate to “condemn the continuous violations of press freedom in the Palestinian occupied territories.” Israel violently represses journalists documenting its crimes...