• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When Israeli journalist can’t speak out against the actions of their own government due to rightwing mobs attacking their homes, it seems naive to believe what the journalists are allowed to say…

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-journalist-attacked-expressed-solidarity

    All he did was pray for the dead civilians on both sides, now he had to go into hiding in his own country from rightwing Jewish extremists…

    A prominent ultra-Orthodox Israeli journalist has gone into hiding after his home was attacked by a mob of far-right Israelis, who targeted him in response to expressions of solidarity with Palestinians under bombardment in Gaza.

    The crowd of far-right Israelis surrounded Israel Frey’s home on Saturday night, firing flares into the sky and threatening to kill him.

    For some reasons Israels government doesn’t seem so quick to call them terrorists and bomb their neighborhood tho