Israel, West against Palestinian freedom of speech: Academic
Press TV has interviewed Anthony Hall, a Toronto-based professor of globalization at the University of Lethbridge, and Lawrence Korb, a former US assistant secretary of defense from Washington, to discuss Western double standards toward Israel's stifling of Palestinian media.
Hall said the “effort to criminalize free speech” is common among apartheid regimes and Israeli policies are comparable to South African apartheid, but the difference is that the tactics that the Tel Aviv regime resorts to are far beyond any crimes that were seen in South Africa.
Israel carries out a “full-blown genocidal treatment of indigenous Palestinians, those who remain in their territories and haven’t been forced out through the ethnic cleansing of the Israeli” regime, he said.
The academic also stated that free discussion of the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people is not favorable to the Tel Aviv regime and there is no sign of freedom of speech in the occupied territories.
Hall said Western news channels such as the BBC, CBC and ABC are biased and propaganda networks to prop up Zionist approaches, because the Western foreign policy is based on advocating Israeli crimes and their authorities are members of a “chain of command” to follow up pro-Zionist agenda.
Korb, for his part, believes the Israeli regime has shut down a Palestinian TV network to decrease the level of “violence,” which has been widespread in the occupied territories since October 2015.
He adds the French authorities agreed to stop broadcasting the Palestinian al-Aqsa TV from their satellite operator Eutelsat in order to prevent the channel from “inciting people to commit” violent acts.
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