{"id":2210806,"date":"2024-04-01T16:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-knocks-israels-plan-to-block-foreign-news-outlets-from-operating-inside-country\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:52:30","slug":"white-house-knocks-israels-plan-to-block-foreign-news-outlets-from-operating-inside-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-knocks-israels-plan-to-block-foreign-news-outlets-from-operating-inside-country\/","title":{"rendered":"White House criticizes Israel&#8217;s move to restrict foreign news outlets within its borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-knocks-israels-plan-to-block-foreign-news-outlets-from-operating-inside-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200dWhite House is troubled by Israel&#8217;s plan to restrict foreign news outlets within the country, with a specific reference \u2064to Al Jazeera. The Israeli parliament passed a law\u2064 enabling the closure of\u200d such outlets if they are\u200b seen as detrimental to national security.\u2063 This move has drawn \u2062scrutiny from the White House. The White\u2063 House expresses concern over Israel&#8217;s legislation allowing the closure of foreign news outlets like Al Jazeera if deemed\u2063 a threat \u2063to national \u200csecurity. This action \u2063is under scrutiny\u2062 by the White House, highlighting\u200d tensions over press freedom and national security measures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House<\/a> is concerned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Israel\">Israel<\/a> is moving to block certain foreign news outlets from operating inside the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli parliament passed a law earlier in the day that would allow the government to close foreign outlets, specifically <em>Al Jazeera<\/em>, if they are deemed harmful to Israel\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karine-jean-pierre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> addressed the new law when asked about it during Monday\u2019s press briefing, suggesting that President Joe Biden does not support the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen the reports, and certainly, I\u2019m going to refer to Israel for what they may or may not be considering, but if it is true, if it is true, a move like this is concerning,\u201d she told reporters. \u201cWe believe in the freedom of the press. It is critical. It is critically important, and the United States supports the critically important work journalists around the world do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat includes those who are reporting on the conflict in Gaza,\u201d Jean-Pierre added. \u201cWe believe that work is important. The freedom of the press is important, and if those reports are true, it is concerning to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/4567874-israel-law-shuts-down-al-jazeera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reportedly<\/a> claimed that he would \u201cact immediately\u201d to block <em>Al Jazeera<\/em>, which he described as a \u201cterrorist channel,\u201d from broadcasting inside Israel after the law was passed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch Monday\u2019s briefing in full below.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"04\/01\/24: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2GfCgqeWqOY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House expresses concern over Israel&#8217;s new law restricting select foreign news outlets. The law permits shutting down outlets like Al Jazeera if seen as a threat to national security. Israel took this step, drawing scrutiny from White House press secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2210807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24092612207162.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24092612207162.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}