Censorship

Do Israelis know what’s going on? - opinion

One cannot help wondering whether there might be a concerted voluntary censorship of sorts regarding certain issues.

US VICE PRESIDENT JD Vance arrives for a meeting with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad, Pakistan, for talks about Iran, last week.
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 28, 2025.

Pro-Iranian hacking group Handala claims breaching ex-IDF chief Halevi's phone

Paivi Rasanen (R), member of the Finnish Parliament, testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2026.

Finland's Supreme Court fines MP for calling homosexuality 'developmental disorder'

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before a hearing of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 14, 2026.

FCC's Carr threatens broadcasters who do not 'operate in public interest' will lose licenses


David Grossman book banned in Russia for 'causing teen pregnancy, STDs'

The commissioner's directive was circulated across all public libraries and bookstores, where all copies of the book "Someone to Run With" are now no longer available for sale.

Israeli author David Grossman poses for photographers after he received the Medicis Foreign book award for his novel "Une femme fuyant l'annonce"

Lithuania continues Soviet-style censorship 30 years post-independence

Holocaust distortion is so prevalent in Lithuania, which has initiated and led many of the initiatives in Eastern Europe to rewrite the narrative of World War II and the Holocaust.

A monument honoring the victims of the Ponary massacre near Vilnius, Lithuania

Mother Palestine can’t go online, cartoon by Carlos Latuff says

The cartoon shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas unplugging a computer.

Carlos Latuff

Israel in top 20 countries whose governments censor online data - report

The report found that the Israeli government made more than 5,500 content removal requests to tech giants in roughly the last decade.

‘FACEBOOK, GOOGLE and Twitter remove some things, but usually society is not disturbed by defamation.’

Shut up, Shakespeare, Part 2

It’s not looking great for Shakespeare. Should he ripped out of textbooks in the Holy Land? Depends on whom you ask.

William Shakespeare

Livni slams Bnei Brak bylaw banning billboards with women’s photos

Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg is also a victim of billboard censoring.

Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni in a video discussing the ban on depicting women on billboards in Bnei Brak, 2019.

Between the freedom and security of information

The Spokesperson’s Unit and Military Censor have completely collapsed.

IDF forces on the Gaza border, November 13, 2018

Behind Kuwait's rising book censorship

Despite a constitution that protects freedom of expression, many Kuwaitis fear that an Islamist bloc in parliament will impose stricter bans

THE KUWAITI censors prohibited an encyclopedia depicting Michelangelo’s celebrated nude sculpture of ‘David’...

Iran’s humiliated Instagram dancer stirs a backlash

Maedeh Hojabri’s public shaming seems to have stirred the opposite reaction for which the regime was hoping.

(R) Solmaz Eikder, a female activist and Iranian refugee, dances on the street of Istanbul, in the protest against the arrest of Iranian teenager, Maedeh Hojabri, who was posting dance videos on Instagram. (L) A man dances in the protest against the arrest  Maedeh Hojabri

IDF Military Censor banned nearly 300 articles last year

The Military Censor works in an outdated mode, even if some secrets are legitimate, expert says.

IDF computing school