The Guardian sacks a columnist – and indicates he should keep quiet – after he comments on US aid to Israel. Nathan J Robinson is surprised by his treatment, but others - myself included - were similarly forced out into the cold after criticising Israel currentaffairs.org/2021/02/how-th…
This goes back to at least Michael Adams, who got into trouble with the Guardian in 1967 for trying to report on Israel's covert ethnic cleansing of three Palestinian villages during that year's war. No one at the paper wanted those crimes covered coldtype.net/Assets.11/pdfs…
And in 2014 the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog – violating his contract – after he wrote a viral piece about Israeli energy interests related to Gaza, an important but ignored topic. He wasn't accused of errors. He was told he'd strayed off topic jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-12-0…
And in 2016 the Guardian hung out to dry one of its freelance writers, Antony Loewenstein, when Israel decided to deport him for doing his job – asking probing questions of a government minister jonathan-cook.net/2016-12-23/gua…
Now watch journalists at the Guardian - 'leftists' like Owen Jones and George Monbiot – rally in solidarity with a colleague sacked for exercising his free speech in criticising the US over the billions it sends in military aid to Israel during a pandemic
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