August 10, 2016, +972 Magazine http://972mag.com
(Israel)
By Noam Rotem*
Palestinian journalist Omar
Nazzal has been in custody without charges put in administrative
detention for nearly four months. For the most part, his Israeli
counterparts have remained decidedly silent.
(Palestinian journalists protest in solidarity
with their colleague Omar Nazzal, who was put in administrative detention in
late April, April 29, 2016. (Flash90)
The Union of Journalists in Israel made an
appeal this week for solidarity with investigative reporter Sharon Shpurer, who
was sued for libel by Urban, a real estate development company, after she
revealed on her Facebook page that it was owned by a convicted human
trafficker.
The union’s call to collectively foot the NIS
1.7 million bill, in the
