Coalition foils law to protect journalists: Levin: they are ‘propogandists’

28 June 2023, 5:10 pm

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a cabinet in Jerusalem on May 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice Minister Yariv Levin justifies the coalition foiling a law aimed at protecting journalists from physical assault by saying that reporters in Israel are “propagandists.”

The bill, sponsored by the Yesh Atid party, would have increased penalties for assaulting a journalist.

Levin singles out employees of Channel 12 and 13, the country’s two main private channels, saying that they have “long stopped being journalists” and are propagandists, with no connection between their work and journalism.

The Journalists Union slams Levin, saying that he is “laying the groundwork for the next attack on a journalist.”