The man suspected of working undercover for Al Jazeera to make a documentary film about Israel activism in Washington, D.C. managed to become an intern at the Israel Project, a leading pro-Israel advocacy non-profit, a new Haaretz report reveals. Al Jazeera has acknowledged sending an undercover reporter in 2016 to infiltrate pro-Israel organizations in the…
(JTA) — An Al Jazeera editor acknowledged planting an undercover reporter inside pro-Israel organizations last year in Washington, D.C. Clayton Swisher, the international news network’s head of investigative reporting, made the revelation Monday in an interview on Al Jazeera’s main Arabic channel. He said a documentary will be aired based on the reporter’s work. Earlier in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Government Press Office said it will defer the revocation of the press card of a senior reporter for the Al Jazeera network based in Jerusalem. The move to revoke the press card of reporter Elias Karram, accused of aiding the Palestinian “resistance” to the State of Israel, was seen as the…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel intends to cancel an Al Jazeera journalist’s press accreditation on the grounds that he is biased toward the Palestinians, the director of the government press office said on Wednesday. Nitzan Chen said Al Jazeera correspondent Elias Karram’s press card would be revoked, pending a hearing, because he told television station Dar…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Al Jazeera threatened to take legal action to remain in its Jerusalem bureau following Israel’s decision to close it down. The Qatar-based news network, which is based in the same building as Israel’s Government Press Office, criticized the shutdown as “undemocratic” in a statement Monday. “Al Jazeera stresses that it will closely watch the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would seek to pass a law to shut down the Jerusalem bureau of Al Jazeera if law enforcement will not do so after his multiple requests. “The Al Jazeera network does not stop inciting to violence on the Temple Mount issue,” Netanyahu posted Wednesday in…
After tweeting (then deleting) an anti-Semitic meme on Wednesday, Al Jazeera apologized and called the post an error. “This is not AJE image but a reply to an old thread that was mistakenly linked,” Al Jazeera English tweeted. “We apologise for the error.” The image was originally tweeted on Wednesday to promote a story about…
The English-language Twitter account for Al Jazeera tweeted an anti-Semitic meme on Wednesday to promote a story about climate change. Al Jazeera later deleted the post, but Twitter user Eli Meixler quickly took a screenshot. The meme is known as the “Happy Merchant,” and depicts a hook-nosed Jew in a yarmulke rubbing his hands together….
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