Israel Jails American Journalist for Reporting on Iranian Missile Strikes

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1. I wonder who will get "iron clad" and "unwavering" support, the American journalist or the Israeli Gestapo government?

   1. You striked the wrong word!

      1. Both are wrong. Only one word fits.

2. This report leads me to conclude Israel will interfere with Iran's GPS services. Could be the surprise Israel is promising.

   1. This is possible. The USA can shut down the GPS that Iran gets from the USA space force. Israel can than take out the Iranian home developed backup systems.

      1. Iranians are not so stupid as to rely on GPS.
         I'm sure they are using GLONASS.

3. Dan Cohen ® @dancohen3000

   Jeremy Loffredo was beaten and detained in Israel for reporting the exact same information about damage caused by Iranian strikes that PBS correspondent @nickschifrin published. But Schifrin wasn't arrested and is silent on Loffredo's detention.

   https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1844461193337110781

   Dan Cohen ® @dancohen3000
   American journalist Jeremy Loffredo is in detention in Israel on bogus charges
   2h
   Loffredo (@loffredojeremy) is held on accusations of "aiding the enemy during wartime and providing information to the enemy."
   His report documented the damage caused by Iranian missiles strikes, including near Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv. The absurd accusation against him is based on the fact that he did not obtain permission from the Israeli government censor to publish it.
   However, PBS Newshour correspondent @nickschifrin also published scenes showing the damage near Mossad headquarters. Yet he was not arrested (he is also silent about Loffredo's arrest).
   The Israeli publication Ynet published an article on Loffredo's arrest and included his video report. This was approved by the censor, which means Loffredo's reporting was approved too. The Israeli site i24's article also included his video report, but its reporter has not been arrested.
   When Loffredo's attorney Leah Tsemel presented that information, Judge Zion Sahrai ordered Loffredo to be released. However, the police filed an appeal and he remains in detention.
   #FreeJeremy
   http://the7eye.org.il/531773

   https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1844454431586386166

4. …."the US government has been silent and has not publicly called for his release."…..

   Not much of a fuss about American citizens murdered by the IDF either. The myth that the US government gives a damn about American citizens is transparently false.

   1. E.G. for anyone arguing otherwise–JULIAN ASSANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. The Grayzone is a propaganda outlet for Russia and Iran. The USA will not push Israel to release him.

   1. Citation needed. Otherwise you just sound like a loony conspiracy theorist.

      1. It’s propaganda to harm people critical of US policy:

         Failing Washington Post attempts to get Grayzone editor jailed with error-filled smear piece
         
         Though The Washington Post was forced to retract the first sentence and central premise of its nothingburger ‘expose’ targeting The Grayzone, pro-Israel operatives are using the malicious hit piece to demand a federal investigation.
         https://thegrayzone.com/2024/06/06/washington-post-grayzone-editor-smear-piece/

         and, this, on which antiwar is also an “enemy”.

         The Grayzone targeted in US govt-backed ‘enemies of Ukraine’ list
         https://thegrayzone.com/2024/06/12/us-ukrainian-enemies-list/

         https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cover_TM8JQ7u.original.jpg?resize=1400,788&ssl=1

   2. It used to be called journalism, but that no longer exists in our ""free" world.

      1. What about the grayzone isn’t journalism?

         1. Grayzone along with a few other channels are the true journalism we still have.

            1. Okay, gotcha.

   3. A point of reference is of benefit to others, otherwise, the comment has no value. In other words Tim: put up or shut up.

   4. Russia's and Iran's diabolical plan to tell the truth

6. Journalism is not a crime. Where is this “only democracy in the ME”?

   Thanks for covering this. The msm is avoiding it at all costs.

   Just tell the state dept he is in Russia so Biden and Harris can handwring and cry crocodile tears over the injustice.

   Oh, and who will investigate the assaults? I’m sure Israel’s independent investigation will clear itself, as usual.

7. US will send Israel some "how to" notes from what they learned dealing with Assange.

   1. LOL. My feelings exactly.

8. The arrogant zio state is a "democracy"?
   In reality for the last few decades it has been morphing, and now it's a militaristic, apartheid, chauvinistic, ethnocentric and ethno-religious régime with a very thin veneer of "democracy".

   Anyway the political system of liberal democracy, considered to be the best after the second world war, needs to be reformed and changed. Other countries in the region like Tunisia and Lebanon have had democratic systems of government.

   1. Israel is formally a “democracy” in the same way as Iran, Russia, or the US. That is, some people are allowed to occasionally choose between regime-approved candidates for office.

      1. Like the upcoming Big (1). It's a toss up! It goes up & comes down: Heads they Win & Tails WE Lose…..

      2. Meanwhile,numerous journalists that are hostile to Isral are allowed to oprate from liberated Judea andSamaria.

9. I mean guys, who is with me? Don't you feel sorry for Xi and Putin for every one of our bowel movements full of "Moral Authority Freedom of the Press and Democracy" DUMPED on their face like every morning?

   1. I feel sorry for those who UNDERESTIMATED THEM & SQUANDERED THEIR TOP DOG PRIMACY CHASING THOSE WE SAID WERE TERRORISTS FOR OUR BOSS
      ———————(US!)———————

10. A total disgrace to all of us, our entire country. But, would it really surprise you if we brought this honorable and exemplary human journalist to US jails in order to suicide him?

    1. Yes. Because it’s SOP for the US to get proxies to do the dirty work with the exception of gitmo.

    2. A country has a right to maintain some things as secret,especially during times of war.

       1. Countries don’t keep secrets. Regimes do. And regimes don’t have rights. They seize powers, which is a different thing entirely.

          1. So,we should have announced to Nazi Germany that we were building the first Nukes? Should we give plans for our newest Jetss to Russia?

             1. I don’t care who you give plans for your newest jets to. That doesn’t have anything to do with the issue.

             2. It certainly does-it gives those firing missiles at Israel information as to how effective their targeting is, and how much resources remain. You know very well that information costs lives in a time of war.

11. I don't know nothing, but how likely is it that Blinken might have told Netanyahu to do it?

12. Update: Grazyzone founder Max Blumenthal said on Friday that a district court ordered Loffredo to be released bu forbade him from leaving Israel for a certain period of time

    Released to whom or where?

    Where are the msm journalists covering this?

    1. https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1844569539733844101

       Ali Abunimah ® @AliAbunimah
       11h
       This arrest also tells you how tame and obedient the hordes of "Western" journalists posted to "Tel Aviv" are. They never violate the strict censorship rules. They never upset their Zionist minders.

       "on suspicion of serious security offenses for publicly publishing… the locations of missile drops near or inside sensitive security facilities, with the aim of bringing this to the notice of the enemy and thereby assisting them in their future attacks
       The charges stem from Jeremy's report for @TheGrayzoneNews showing the aftermath of Iranian attacks on military and intelligence targets inside Israel-the same exact locations which were openly featured in reports broadcast on ABC News and PBS, neither of which currently face such charges.

13. https://x.com/the_andrey_x/status/1844760094841475281

    1. In case the link malfunctions:

       I was illegally detained by the Israeli Army with four other journalists. Here's what happened:
       On October 8th 2024, at approximately 01:00 PM, a car with five journalists (an American journalist, a Palestiniar journalist, a Russian-Israeli journalist, a Canadian-Israeli videographer, and an Israeli photographer) was stopped at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank. The checkpoint separates Areas C and B, all the journalists are allowed to be on both sides by Israeli occupation law. They were held for an hour and a half in their car, while the OF collected their documents. The IOF searched the car, going through personal items. The photographer later discovered that her underwear was removed from her bag, placed on top of their belongings
       The soldiers then illegally requested that the journalists hand in their phones, and when they refused, the soldiers pointed a gun at one of the journalists, hit him with their hands and the barrel of a gun, then dragged him out of the car and slammed him onto the concrete.
       When lying on the ground, they pointed 2 guns at his head. The rest of the journalists exited the car and the military raided it, confiscating phones, cameras, and personal items.
       The journalists were told to sit in the sun, in 35°C heat on the side of the road. After an hour, the Palestinian journalist began to feel faint and requested an ambulance be ordered. The soldiers refused and didn't let anyone move to the shade, shouting insults and Israeli nationalist slogans. After two hours, the soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded the journalists. The Israeli photographer had a panic attack and started throwing up, and after stating she was Israeli, was allowed to remain without a blindfold. The Palestinian journalist was left in the sun for two more hours, then he was released.
       In the meantime, the other four journalists were stacked on top of each other into a military jeep, and taken to a military base. There they were held blindfolded and handcuffed on the floor for two hours, while being insulted and interrogated by the soldiers. The soldiers told the female Israeli photographer that she should she should have been raped by Hamas.
       At approximately 04.00 PM the IOF passed the illegally detained journalists to the police, who took them to the police station. The two male journalists remained blindfolded until arriving at the Maale Adumim Shai Police Station in an illegal Israeli settlement 1 hour later.
       At the station, the journalists were forced to be photographed in front of an Israeli flag with a nationalist slogan on it, while the officers were insulting them. A journalist was threatened with physical violence for smiling.
       The journalists were interrogated in regards to their political affiliation and work, refused the right to see a lawyer, denied food and water until many repeated requests (the two male journalists were denied food completely). The two female journalists were released without charges at 11:00 PM. The Russian-Israeli journalist was released at midnight. The American journalist was held for three days and was released Friday, October 11th. The army confiscated two phones and one camera that they have yet to return.
       This marks a precedent for OF treatment of Israelis and internationals, but this is the standard procedure for kidnapping Palestinians across the West Bank.
       For press inquiries +972 53-322-2469

14. The deceitful, so-called "democratic" zio state is becoming a completely militarized and militaristic nation and society, with expansionist ambitions, which doesn't bode well at all for this state and for the entire region. This state is now like a military base or garrison attached to the US in the Middle East. Like any military base, it could be targeted and dealt with appropriately.

    The world is changing and becoming multipolar. All great powers rise and fall one after another. In the next years the US will very likely experience turmoil and changes. In very few decades the US will go down to be a secondary power. The military garrison of the US in the Middle East, aka the zio state, will be dealt with fittingly. Everyone will be held accountable appropriately.

15. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO– — LOL—- PUTTING AMERICAN REPORTESS in. JAIL—(B4 the PRESIDENTIAL– ELECTION is BRAZENLY BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS & PROTECTS the ZIONIST SCUM THAT SEEM TO OWN most of OUR POLITICAL LEADERS & HIGH LEVEL clerks! DID YOU KONW each 1 has an ISRAELI Minder WATCHING OVER ALL they do??
    AMERICAN POLITICIANS all PAID 4 with YOUR'S
    –& MY TAXPAYER'S DOLLARS THE SCUM HAVE GRIFTED FROM THE AID WE FOOLISHLY LET THEM Uuse to BRIBE OUR LEADERS & OWN OUR LEADERS WHO do what's BEST FOR THEM & BAD FOR–(US!!!!!!!). LIKE GENOCIDING THE POOR & GRIFTING OUR TAX DOLLARS TO THE RICH WHO DO THE KILLING OF THOSE WHO RESIST!

    1. since "bribery" is illegal"show us the money trails.

16. The fools are losing their minds ….!!!! THEY LOST ME a very LONG TIME AGO!!!! A HOMELAND FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE sounded loke a nice idea for a troubled people. I was a supporter, I was YOUNG & Easily DUPED, What could possibly go WRONG. It never dawned on me that a KLEPTO STATE WOULD GET NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!!! Sad and use them to STEAL EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. INCLUDING MY TAX GRAFT!!!

17. Israeli forces shot Abu Akleh in the head while she was on assignment in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/11/shireen-abu-akleh-israeli-forces-kill-al-jazeera-journalist

    Israeli forces mischaracterised events leading to fatal shooting of US activist, says Washington Post

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/12/israeli-forces-mischaracterised-events-leading-fatal-shooting-aysenur-ezgi-eygi-washington-post

18. Interview with Max Blumenthal about Jeremy Loffredo on Aljazeera:

    https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1845165084273934556

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