Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist,is a former Ferris professor of journalism at PrincetonUniversity and the winner of the Press Freedom Award bythe International Press Institute. Follow him on Twitter @daoudkuttab.
Israel’s ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza and its insistence on Israeli
correspondents being under IDF supervision is not out of safety concerns but rather a
desire to control the media narrative.
The war on Ukraine has done more to expose the Western world’s double standard
than all the Palestinian activists and their supporters have been able to do in decades.
The behavior of American President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and
other populist leaders reflects a new phenomenon emerging in the leadership of many
democratic countries: executive sector overreach.
