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VIDEO | Gazans slam media ban against Iranian channels

  Published on Jul 3, 2013 by Press TV People in Gaza have slammed the renewed western attacks on Press TV and other Iranian channels. The alternative news outlet and its sister channels have come under a wave of unprecedented attacks by European governments and satellite providers since last year. Recently the giant satellite provider […]

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PA rejects appeal to release the journalist Mona

[ PIC 21/10/2012 – 09:51 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– PA court renewed its rejection to the appeal filed for the release of the Quds press reporter in Nablus, Mohammed Mona, 30, on bail and decided to continue his detention which continues since 29 days. The journalist Mohamed Mona’s family told Quds Press that the Magistrate’s […]

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Twitter Occupies Freedom of Speech – No News. Not Again. Still… #TwitterCensored ~ by @occpal

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Updated Febr 3, 2012 – Article of Reporters without borders Jan 28, 2012 Yesterday Twitter announced to implement a geolocated censorship on tweets. Shocked. Well I’m not. It is happening already for a long time let’s say they made it “formal” now by kicking in […]

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Israeli Police Silence Peace Radio Station ~ by Richard Silverstein

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Written by: Richard Silverstein –  eurasia OpEd – November 19, 2011 Israeli police have just succeeding in murdering peace (Hebrew)–or at least the voice of peace that Israelis and Palestinians can hear on the radio.   Police summoned the Radio Kol HaShalom (“All for Peace” Radio, which […]

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▣ Action Alert ▣ A Call To Release Palestinian Journalist

Saturday September 10, 2011 21:08 by UFree Network | – International Middle East Media Center Lawmakers and human rights advocates must intervene to free Samer Allawi, a Palestinian who works as Afghanistan bureau chief for Al Jazeera, says the organization UFree in a press release issued today. Allawi was detained without charges by the Israeli […]

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PA arrests brothers of Palestinian journalist

Published today (updated) 07/08/2011 10:15 Palestinian journalists rally against harassment by the PA after being prevented from covering a demonstration in Bethlehem [MaanImages, File] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Preventative Security forces raided the house of a Palestinian journalist in Nablus on Saturday and arrested two of her brothers in an apparent attempt to force her surrender. […]

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In Solidarity with @ibnezra “Israel’s ‘anti-boycott’ law hurts the country’s journalists”

Since 600BC (Athens’ democratic ideology of free speech) civilization talks about Free Speech.  Israel killed it on a mondayevening, while free speech is an absolute condition even for a political debate and definitly for any country calling itself a “democracy” The new BDS law in Israel is a violation of Human Rights Art 19 & […]

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#Airflotilla | Facebook and Twitter used by Israel to bar pro-Palestine protest groups

July 10, 2011 | Metro.co.uk Israel has used Facebook and Twitter to prevent pro-Palestine activists entering the country to protest (Pic: AFP) Authorities used the social media websites to compile a ‘black list’ of 340 protesters before asking European airlines to bar them from flights bound for Tel Aviv. Many were stopped en route at […]

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Twitter Censor-Caged Occupied Palestine

On May 20, 2011 On this day we posted on this weblog the blogpost:  Twitter Death for Occupied Palestine. Twitter suspended the account of occupiedpalestine. Also twitter unsuspended it again a few days later with the message that we had been tweeting “unrelated tweets” into a “trending topic”. This trending topic was the #MESpeech and […]

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THE ACCUSATION OF ANTI-SEMITISM HAS LONG PASSED ITS SELL-BY DATE: ANTHONY LAWSON

May 2, 2011 | Intifada Palestine Anthony Lawson Interview by: Kourosh Ziabari Without any redundant exaggeration, Anthony Lawson is an inimitable, conscientious and unique man. What he does can be described as professional and committed video-journalism. Lawson is a retired international-prize-winning commercials director, cameraman, ad agency creative director and voice over. He calls himself as […]

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Pressure on Conference Threatens Free Speech

By Cecilie Surasky The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the Bay Area’s Jewish Community Relations Council interfered in an academic conference last week called “Litigating Palestine: Can Courts Secure Palestinian Rights?” at the UC Hastings College of the Law. They pressured the Hastings Board of Directors into an emergency meeting in which the […]

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Union: Settlers, soldiers attack Palestinian journalists

April 20, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Three journalists were injured Tuesday when Israeli soldiers and settlers attacked them in the Burin village near the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said Wednesday. Three photographers covering settler violence in the eastern neighborhood of Burin in Nablus city were attacked, the PJS and media […]

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Swiss Court Upholds Right of Palestine Solidarity Action to Hang Posters in Train Stations

Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:29 Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has ruled that SBB, the national rail service, violated freedom of speech of the Palestine Solidarity Action group when it refused to allow the group to hang posters. Main train station in Zurich, where a Swiss court […]

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No Facebook Revolution for Palestine

Mar 31, 2011| By Alan Kurtz  | AllVoices   Six weeks after the world celebrated Google executive Wael Ghonim’s Facebook page that, proclaimed Newsweek, “played a crucial role in inspiring the uprising in Cairo,” Facebook has removed a page calling for a Palestinian uprising against Israel. The term “Facebook Revolution” applies to the social networking […]

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INTIFADA THREE | PART THREE

March 31, 2011 at 09:22 « Desertpeace First there was Part 1 ….. FACEBOOK STARTING TO LOOK LIKE PAC MAN Then the 2nd Part ….. THIRD INTIFADA: NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T Now presenting Part 3 …… Removed third intifada page regains 27,000 fans in first day OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, The organizers of the third Palestinian […]

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