Restrictions on Media Freedom at War Time: The Case of the Israel-Hamas War
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- The Program in Jewish Culture and Society
- Location
- English Building 109
- Date
- Sep 17, 2024 12:00 - 1:15 pm
- Contact
- Anastasiia Strakhova
- as261@illinois.edu
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- 85
Amit Schejter is a professor of communication studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In his talk, he describes legal tools used to limit press and speech freedoms in the Israel-Hamas war and sets them in the context of similar and dissimilar tools used by other regimes in times of war in recent years. Lunch provided.