HR Lawyer in Israel calls on AG to investigate incitement to genocide by Israel’s Channel 14.
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HR Lawyer in Israel calls on AG to investigate incitement to genocide by Israel’s Channel 14.
‘In the past two years, a number of notable reports in scholarly publicationsand in independent media sources have begun to assess the ways in which the almost universal failure of journalistic practices and ethics at prominent Western news organizations has abetted Israel’s genocide in Gaza. These investigations detail how the mainstream media, ranging from The New York Times to the BBC, have helped manufacture consent for the genocide through an array of mechanisms, including the routine dehumanization of Palestinians, overwhelming reliance on Israeli governmental perspectives, an almost total disregard for fact-checking, rhetorical sleights-of-hand, and the habitual exclusion of voices critical of Israel. Alongside these efforts, a growing number of human rights lawyers, including Francesca Albanese, have asked that certain Western media organizations be investigated for their complicity in the offenses outlined in the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Though much more rare, similar criticism has also been voiced within Israel. The investigative news platform The Seventh Eye has repeatedly documented instances of actionable media incitement, and a December 2023 letter signed by fifteen prominent Israelis—among them academics and former ambassadors—accusing the judiciary of ignoring genocidal public statements included examples of such speech on television programs.
In September 2024, news emerged that one of Israel’s foremost human rights lawyers, Michael Sfard, had submitted, along with two colleagues, a letter on behalf of three Israeli human rights organizations to Gali Baharav-Miara, the attorney general, asking that she investigate Israel’s Channel 14. The letter detailed how the channel—home to some of the most violent rhetoric demonizing and delegitimizing Palestinians—was potentially guilty of incitement to genocide, one of the most serious crimes recognized under Israeli law, as well as incitement to violence and incitement to racism. An accompanying document meticulously charted more than two hundred and fifty instances of allegedly genocidal speech aired on the channel. A second letter to the authority responsible for regulating commercial broadcasts requested that it investigate Channel 14 for violating the terms of its license. After months of inaction on the part of the attorney general, Sfard filed in May 2025 a petition with the country’s High Court seeking an injunction against the attorney general, the state attorney, and the police for failing to conduct an investigation into the broadcasts, as mandated by Israeli law.’
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