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Israel suspends funding to Haaretz after publisher describes terrorists as ‘freedom fighters’

The head of Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry said the Haaretz publisher’s comments were ‘straight out of the playbook’ of Israel’s enemies

October 31, 2024 19:03
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Pro-Palestine activists protested outside the JW3 cultural centre during a conference featuring former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert (Photo: X)
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At least three Israeli government ministries have announced they will be terminating all cooperation and advertising with Israel’s most prestigious left-wing newspaper after the group’s publisher accused Israel of “apartheid” and described Palestinian terrorists as “freedom fighters” during an event in London.

Amos Schocken, the head of the Haaretz Group and Haaretz publisher, said in a speech that Israel has a government “that opposes a Palestinian state, and instead, the Netanyahu government wants to continue to encourage illegal settlements in the territories designated for a [future] Palestinian state.

The sold-out panel event, which took place at JW3, included much of Haaretz’s senior editorial team alongside a number of Jewish organisation heads, academics, and politicians.

“It does not care [about] applying a brutal apartheid regime on the Palestinian people,” he said.