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It's hard for major newspapers to publish critical articles on israel because of the israeli influence in news media. Not to mention the amount of jewish owners, investors, editors and journalists.

Do you expect a Josh Rogin to write a critical article on israel? Do you really expect washington post to publish negative articles on israel?

The editor of washingtonpost is martin baron, a child of israeli immigrants to the US.

The guy who wrote the op-ed and the editor both have ties to israel. What are the chances of a negative article regarding israel?

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> Not to mention the amount of jewish owners, investors, editors and journalists.

Uh, the Israeli news media is even more dominated by Jewish owners, investors, editors, and journalists (and caters to a more Jewish audience), and they have no problem ciriticizing the Israeli government from all imaginable sides.

There is a big difference in the perception of internal versus external criticism.

True, but irrelevant: the Israeli media doesn't have the problem of acquiring and maintaining support for a foreign country.

On the opposite, the fact that criticism towards Israeli policies is much more pronounced and direct inside Israeli media than it is in the media of a completely independent country, is a clear sign that the debate is artificially stifled.

> On the opposite, the fact that criticism towards Israeli policies is much more pronounced and direct inside Israeli media than it is in the media of a completely independent country, is an obvious proof that the debate is artificially stifled.

But not support for the claims that the reason is Jewish actors in media rather than, say, a combination of a broad consensus on US geopolitical interests and widespread and deep bias against Arabs and Muslims in the US.

While criticism of Israel is muted in the US press, it isn't inversely correlated, AFAICT, with outlets that have Jewish investors, Jewish editors, or even with the particular piece being written by a Jewish journalist/columnist.

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