Incitement and Lies

Freedom House has reduced Israel's rating from free to partly free in that organization's latest assessment of freedom of the press. It is remarkable to me that Israel allows in consistently anti-Jewish reporters along with the young troublemakers of the International Solidarity Movement who make it a point to provoke Israeli security forces by participating in illegal assembly and rioting. I do not see robust reporting taking place against government interests in any Arab or Muslim country. Iran has even recently imprisoned an American reporter of Iranian extraction for imagined espionage. Read Haaretz with its consistent criticism of any Israeli action of self-defense and an editorial policy that delegitimizes the Israeli state and then try to say Israel's press is not free.