Thursday, April 04, 2024

  • Thursday, April 04, 2024
  • Elder of Ziyon
At the White House press briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked for an official reaction to the news that Israel Knesset passed a law giving the prime minister the power to shutter foreign news networks, specifically aimed at Al Jazeera.

She answered,  "If it is true, if it is true, a move like this is concerning. We believe in the freedom of the press. It is critical. It is critically important. And the United States supports the critically important work journalists around the world do. And that includes those who are reporting in the conflict in Gaza. So we believe that work is important, the freedom of the press is important, and if those reports are true, it is concerning to us."

In 2006, the US designated Al Manar TV - a Hezbollah-allied Lebanese TV station - on its terrorist list as a " "Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity." Al Manar TV was banned from being broadcast into the US. The Treasury Department also placed Al Nour Radio and the Lebanese Media Group on the same list as affiliates of Hezbollah.

Al Manar remains on the State Department Terrorist Exclusion list even today. 

Two years earlier, Al Manar was placed on the US terrorist watchlist. But it is hardly the only media company on that OFAC Sanctions List. The database shows all these (apparent) media outlets, amd I found several more after making this list:

Name 

Address 

Program(s) 

AL RA'Y SATELLITE TELEVISION STATION 

Near Damascus in the Yaafur area

IRAQ3

AL ZAWRAH TELEVISION 

 

IRAQ3

AL-AQSA SATELLITE TELEVISION 

 

SDGT

AL-DONYA TELEVISION CHANNEL 

Information Free Zone

SYRIA

AL-DUNYA TELEVISION 

Information Free Zone

SYRIA

AL-RA'Y SATELLITE TELEVISION CHANNEL 

Near Damascus in the Yaafur area

IRAQ3

AL-ZAWARA SATELLITE TELEVISION STATION 

 

IRAQ3

AL-ZAWRA TELEVISION STATION 

 

IRAQ3

DUNIA TELEVISION 

Information Free Zone

SYRIA

GENERAL RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION 

Al Oumaween Square; P.O. Box 250

SYRIA

ISLAMIC RADIO AND TELEVISION UNION 

 

ELECTION-EO13848

NATIONAL IRANIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION 

Jamejam Street, Valiasr Avenue

IRAN-TRA

RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION 

Al Oumaween Square; P.O. Box 250

SYRIA

SATELLITE TELEVISION CHANNEL AL RA'Y 

Near Damascus in the Yaafur area

IRAQ3

SBC TELEVISION 

Al Sufara' Street in the Ya'fur district

IRAQ3

SYRIAN DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF RADIO & TELEVISION EST 

Al Oumaween Square; P.O. Box 250

SYRIA

TELEVISION STATION RUSSIA-1 

5th Yamskogo Polya street, 19-21, building 1, Begovoy

RUSSIA-EO14024

THE OPINION SATELLITE TELEVISION CHANNEL 

Near Damascus in the Yaafur area

IRAQ3

AL NOUR RADIO 

Abed Al Nour Street, PO Box 197/25, Alghobeiri; Haret Hriek

SDGT

AL NUR RADIO 

Abed Al Nour Street, PO Box 197/25, Alghobeiri; Haret Hriek

SDGT

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY RADIO REKLAMA NN 

32 Belinskogo Street; Office 301

RUSSIA-EO14024

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY RADIO REKLAMA VOLOGDA 

7 Lesnaya Street; Tverskoy Municipal District

RUSSIA-EO14024

OOO KHOLDING VYBERI RADIO 

4 Olkhovskaya Street; Building 2, Floor 5, Suite Part 544; Basmannyy Municipal District

RUSSIA-EO14024

OOO RADIO REKLAMA VOLOGDA 

7 Lesnaya Street; Tverskoy Municipal District

RUSSIA-EO14024

RADIO ANNOUR 

Abed Al Nour Street, PO Box 197/25, Alghobeiri; Haret Hriek

SDGT

AMAQ NEWS AGENCY 

 

FTO; SDGT

FARS NEWS AGENCY 

Number 1, Shahrood Alley, Ferdowsi Square

IFSR; IRAN-HR; IRGC

FEDERAL NEWS AGENCY LLC 

d. 18 litera A. pom. 2-N, UL. Vsevoloda Vishnevskogo

CYBER2

NEVSKIY NEWS LLC 

d. 11 korp. 2 pom. 327-N, ul. Staroderevenskaya

CYBER2

NEWS AGENCY INFOROS 

 

CAATSA - RUSSIA; CYBER2; NPWMD

ONLY NEWS 

Vul. Hotkevicha Gnata 12, Of. 177

ELECTION-EO13848

TASNIM NEWS AGENCY 

South Side First Floor, 2 Plaque 12 Pourfallah Street-Shahid Doctor Hassan Azdi St

IFSR; IRAN-HR; IRGC

The EU banned several Russian media companies as well in 2022. 

What is the difference, exactly, between these dozens of media outlets that the US and EU designates as being terrorist and those that would be limited under Israel's new law?

If anything, Al Jazeera is more directly implicated in terrorism than, say, Russia Today. As MEMRI's damning report showing the links between Al Jazeera and Hamas mentions:

Since the October 7 attack, Hamas's leaders have been managing the war from Doha and conveying their messages mostly via Al-Jazeera. The network has been operating as a propaganda outlet in the service of Hamas 24/7, with hardly any coverage of other topics. The channel expresses unreserved support for Hamas, justifying the deadly attack, showing footage of it obtained from the body-cams of the terrorists, and celebrating it as a victory that brought pride and honor to the Islamic nation.

Some Al-Jazeera journalists have recently been "outed" as Hamas and PIJ fighters. A Palestinian journalist working for Al-Jazeera, Muhammad Wishah, appears to have also been a commander in the military wing of Hamas, according to documents on a laptop found by the Israeli army in a Hamas base in northern Gaza. Wishah, from Al-Buriej in the central Gaza Strip, has featured in Al-Jazeera broadcasts in recent months, with the station calling him one of their journalists. According to the Israeli military sources, however, Wishah is a prominent commander in Hamas's anti-tank missile unit, who began, in late 2022, to work in R&D for the terror group's air unit.[68] A photo that emerged of Wishah together with Yahya Sinwar suggests warm relations between the two.

Another Al-Jazeera correspondent, Ismail Abu Omar, who participated in the October 7 attack, documenting it from within the Gaza Envelope, was airlifted to Doha for medical treatment on February 19 after having been wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah a week earlier. He has been identified as a Hamas platoon deputy commander.[69]

Mustafa Thuraya, an independent journalist who worked with Al-Jazeera TV and Agence France-Press, was, according to documents found by the Israeli army in Gaza, an operative in the Al-Qassam Brigades' Gaza City Brigade, and he specialized in developing drones. Hamza Al-Dahdouh, another Al-Jazeera journalist and photojournalist, was a member of the electronic engineering unit of the PIJ's Northern Gaza Brigade.
The "concern" the US is showing over sanctioning Al Jazeera is just as hypocritical as its "outrage" over the accidental killing of civilians, something the US has done many times over the years, and rarely apologized for.

(h/t Avi)





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