Congratulations to the Corporation: You Have Succeeded in Marking and Pushing Out the Last Non-Conforming Voice

Lital Shemesh attacks the public broadcasting corporation in an opinion column for its treatment of journalist Ayala Hasson, accusing it of hypocrisy, silencing, and persecution under the guise of ethics. She claims the corporation has become a closed club that replicates only one opinion.

Lital Shemesh attacks the public broadcasting corporation (Kan 11) in an opinion column for its treatment of journalist Ayala Hasson, whom she defines as "the last non-conforming voice" on the channel. Shemesh claims that the corporation, which preaches democracy and freedom of speech, acts to remove a journalist who thinks differently. She links the struggle against Hasson to hypocrisy regarding women's rights, noting that Hasson's statements on polygamy in Bedouin society did not receive proper public discussion. Shemesh asserts that the corporation has turned from a "public body" into a "closed club" of journalists with a single opinion, and that the silencing is presented as "ethics" rather than persecution. The column concludes that this is not journalism.