Censorship

Channel 14 presenter reveals allegedly sensitive US-Iran security information live

During the segment, Riklin indicated that he possessed information he was not permitted to publish. “It does not matter who hinted it to me. They hear me. I cannot speak,” he said.

|ByMIKI LEVIN
An Illustration of channel 14 outside a court hearing on the government's drafting of orthodox Jewish religious studies students for the military, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 2, 2024.
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.

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.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
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

The group also published footage that appears to show Halevi holding meetings with senior Arab officials, including those from Qatar and Jordan.

|ByJAMES GENN
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'

The court found Paivi Rasanen guilty of incitement against a group by claiming on social media and on her website that it was scientifically proven that homosexuality was a developmental disorder.

|ByREUTERS

Self-censorship and its discontents - comment

I stopped by my student’s desk to see how her research was coming along. No stranger to the endless goldmine of internet mis/information, she was busy at work.

MAY 10, 2022ByDAN ORNSTEIN
book censorship

Bar Lev reveals classified information about IDF soldier killed in Syria

The Public Security Minister mistakenly revealed the location of Sayeret Matkal commando Barak Sharabi's death in 1984 in an interview on KAN radio.

MAY 3, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sayeret Matkal commando St.-Sgt. Barak Sharabi, who died in a secret operation on December 18, 1984.

Moscow court fines TikTok 2 million rubles for LGBT 'propaganda'

Roskomnadzor drew up a protocol against TikTok for an administrative offense, the reason being the publication of videos dedicated to the LGBT community on the social network.

APRIL 26, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TikTok

Russian news site Mediazona says it will not comply with censorship

Mediazona said that it had tried to comply with censorship laws for years but that it refused to call Russia's invasion of Ukraine a "special operation."

APRIL 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Russian journalist Sergei Smirnov delivers a speech during a rally to demand authorities allow opposition candidates to run in the upcoming local election in Moscow, Russia, August 10, 2019.

Russia blocks access to website of Radio France Internationale

Russia also blocked access to the Russian-language website of The Moscow Times due to a story about the conflict in Ukraine, the newspaper said.

APRIL 15, 2022ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A SCENE FROM ‘Radio Silence.’

IDF, police, Shin Bet criticize media for coverage of Tel Aviv attack in rare letter

"Some of the TV channels turned the hunt for the terrorist into actual reality TV, without any censorship or self criticism," the three agencies' spokespeople wrote in bold in a joint letter.

APRIL 9, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Police and rescue workers at the scene of a terror attack on Dizengoff street, central Tel Aviv. 5 were wounded in the shooting, 3 severely. April 07, 2022.

Ukraine-Russia war: Russia bans 2 Israeli news sites - report

The Israeli sites banned were that of Channel 9, a Russian-language Israeli channel, and Vesti, the Russian-language site belonging to Yediot Aharonot.

MARCH 16, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hands are seen on a keyboard in front of a displayed cyber code in this picture illustration taken October 4, 2018

Does Israel's military censor balance democracy and security correctly?

The chief military censor today is Brig.-Gen. Doron Ben Barak, who previously served as the deputy military advocate-general and someone who is well acquainted with human rights and civil liberties.

MARCH 3, 2022ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
AN ISRAELI F-15 takes part in an international aerial training exercise in October at the Uvda Air Force Base.

China censors re-write ‘Fight Club’ ending, say authorities triumphed

The original "crazy and poetic" ending was replaced by a message describing a different one (spoiler alert inside).

JANUARY 27, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Core cast of the film Fight Club: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter.

IDF must be quicker to combat unconfirmed news - analysis

The IDF needs to get the story out there fast because if it doesn’t, false information is going to circulate. That's what happened Monday night.

JANUARY 4, 2022ByHERB KEINON
Israeli soldiers search for parts of a crashed military helicopter after a military helicopter crashed off the coast of the northern Israeli city of Hafia, January 4, 2022.