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Israeli arms firms threaten journalists at UK airshow

Post author:PHIL MILLER
Post published:21 July 2026
Post last modified:21 July 2026

Amid the Gaza genocide, Farnborough airshow invited Israel’s three largest arms firms. None wanted media scrutiny Israel’s largest arms firms angrily refused to answer questions from independent media at an arms fair in England on Monday. They had been invited to the Farnborough International Airshow despite being required by French authorities to cover their stands in black drapes at the Paris airshow last year. One company at Farnborough, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), even threatened to report journalists to police for asking questions about its role in the Gaza genocide. IAI makes the Heron surveillance drone which its chief executive Boaz Levy…

Owen Jones slams Reform following call for journalist’s arrest

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:14 July 2026
Post last modified:15 July 2026

Reform and its backers are on something of a tear right now. With the scandals mounting, they’re doing everything they can to deflect and distract. And it seems ‘everything they can’ includes literally calling the police: Retweeted by Isabel Oakeshott. Very obvious that if Reform come to power, they will lock people up for criticising them. pic.twitter.com/6Vtf4f5HYq — Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) July 13, 2026 The relevance of Isabel Oakeshott is that she’s the partner of Reform deputy Richard Tice. She’s also a self-proclaimed free speech warrior. And that’s not surprising, of course, because she’s far from the first such person to…

Israel targeted two Canary journalists with stun grenades in south Lebanon

Post author:Jamal Awar
Post published:9 July 2026
Post last modified:9 July 2026

Zahra — a Lebanese citizen from the south of Lebanon — was on her balcony, pouring coffee, telling two journalists — one British, one Lebanese — what it is like to live in a town which has now become inside Israel’s yellow line of occupation, and why she can’t leave. Then BANG!! An Israeli drone had dropped a stun grenade — a flash-bang, the kind police lob to scatter riot crowds — around 30 metres from where they sat. On the recording, you can hear it detonate. You can hear her voice change: https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Guy-and-Mohamad-—-stun-grenade.wav The translation of the Arabic from the…

CPJ reverses decision to discount slain Gaza journalists after global outrage

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:3 July 2026
Post last modified:3 July 2026

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reportedly reversed its decision to delete Gaza journalists from its database of murdered reporters. The decision came after the CPJ board overruled its chair Jacob Weisberg, considered the main driver of the original change. Weisberg, a vocal supporter of Israel appointed as chair in 2023, has argued against boycotts of the apartheid colony and described the BDS movement as “repellent”. He described supporters of BDS — the Palestinian ‘boycott, divestment and sanctions’ campaign against the occupier — as “sheeplike, liberal opinion”. CPJ — Who counts? The CPJ had changed its criteria of who counts…

Society of Editors warns journalists at risk from state threats bill

Post author:The Canary
Post published:30 June 2026
Post last modified:30 June 2026

Journalists need stronger legal protections under the National Security (State Threats) Bill, the Society of Editors has warned. The calls follow concerns raised in the Guardian about British foreign correspondents, who could be at risk of prosecution if they use sources “within state-backed groups”. Members of the House of Lords were expected to finish scrutinising the bill today. British foreign correspondents could be at risk of prosecution if they use sources within state-backed groups in countries such as Iran under national security legislation being rushed through parliament this week. David Anderson, a former UK independent reviewer of terrorism… — Pippa Crerar…

‘Committee to Protect Journalists’ redefines ‘journalist’ to exclude murdered Palestinians

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:30 June 2026
Post last modified:1 July 2026

The so-called ‘Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) has betrayed Palestinian journalists. The CPJ has re-defined its criteria for who is a journalist to exclude the hundreds of Palestinian journalists Israel has murdered – often along with their families. Israel has killed more reporters in Gaza than died in the First and Second World Wars and all the wars since then combined. The CPJ had already scrapped its ‘Global Impunity Database’ when Israel was going to be announced as the biggest threat to the freedom of the press. It then announced a ‘review’ of its database of Palestinian media personnel murdered in Gaza.…

The Orwellian nightmare facing Lebanon’s journalists

Post author:Guy Smallman
Post published:21 June 2026
Post last modified:22 June 2026

Lebanon — Content warning: Some of the links in this feature connect to upsetting videos On March 18th of this year British anchorman for RT Steve Sweeney went viral after narrowly cheating death on camera. A 500-pound guided bomb aimed at him and his cameraman hit just feet away. Luckily, it landed in an existing crater sending the blast upwards instead of outwards which would have torn them both to shreds. In the early hours of the same day, the Israelis assassinated 80-year-old al-Manar TV News political editor Mohamad Sherri with a drone strike on his apartment in central Beirut. It…

Client journalists defend Musk becoming a trillionaire

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:15 June 2026
Post last modified:15 June 2026

Elon Musk — the seig-heiling owner of X — has become the world’s first trillionaire. As we’ll explain, he’s achieved this by leveraging his power, influence and shamelessness to prove that capitalism is every bit as rotten as we said it is. However, if you ask one of the many thoughtless establishment journalists out there how he became so wealthy, they’ll tell you ‘Elon gets lots of money because he makes rockets good‘. Amid all the predictable seething jealousy and bitter resentment to this news, I’d like to congratulate @elonmusk on an astounding achievement. He’s got there by being the most…

Why The Economist hates wealth taxes

Post author:oscar
Post published:14 June 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

This is an AI-written (but human-edited) summary of Gary’s recent video: Why The Economist Hates Wealth Taxes Wealth taxes are on the cover of The Economist this week. Zack Polanski and Zohran Mamdani are pictured. The magazine is against them. We’ve read it so you don’t have to. What The Economist Says The Economist runs two articles on wealth taxes and barely bothers to argue against them. The substantive objections amount to two sentences: wealth taxes would be “confiscatory,” and “seizing the assets of society’s most productive people is a road to economic ruin.” Gary takes each apart in turn. Every…

Infantino sees with one eye: he called for a French journalist’s release but ignored Palestinian journalists denied the 2026 World Cup

Post author:Alaa Shamali
Post published:12 June 2026
Post last modified:13 June 2026

When Gianni Infantino reserved an empty seat for French journalist Christophe Gleizes and called for his release so he could attend the 2026 World Cup, the FIFA president wanted to send a message of solidarity with a reporter who had been prevented from covering the world’s biggest football tournament. But there are many more empty seats that FIFA’s president has chosen not to acknowledge. There are Palestinian journalists who covered previous international tournaments, some of whom attended the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but who will never make it to the 2026 tournament. Not because they are behind bars, but because…