U.S. Journalist Arrested, Charged In Israel; Kamala's Highly Curated Univision "Town Hall"
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Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live daily show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.
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Tonight... Jeremy Lafredo is an independent American journalist who, as of yesterday, is in an Israeli prison charged with violating Israel's censorship law and, quote, aiding and abetting the enemy.
All of that is based on nothing more than Lafredo's reporting
that debunked Israeli claims that Iran's ballistic missiles did no damage.
He was able to debunk that by showing the air bases that were actually harmed by those missiles
and the extent of that damage.
And for that reporting, the so-called, quote, only democracy in the Middle East
arrested him, an American journalist, for the crime of doing reporting.
Now, ordinarily, when an American journalist is arrested by a foreign country for the journalism
they do, it creates a major scandal in the United States where US corporate media outlets make it their primary crusade
to denounce the arrest, defend freedom of the press, and secure their release.
press and secure their release.
Such was the case, for instance, when Russia arrested and then
Such was the case, for instance, when Russia arrested and then imprisoned Wall Street journalist,
imprisoned Wall Street journalist Evan Gershovich, about which the US media raised so much indignation
Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershovich, about which the US media raised so much indignation
and pressure that Russia finally agreed to his release.
and pressure that Russia finally agreed to his release.
Such indignation, however, you may notice, is very selective.
Such indignation, however, you may notice is very selective.
Virtually no media organization in the corporate media even covered, let alone denounced,
Virtually no media organization in the corporate media even covered, let alone denounced, the
the death of American journalist Gonzalo Lira after he was brutally imprisoned by the Zelensky regime
death of American journalist, Gonzalo Lira, after he was brutally imprisoned by the Zelensky
regime for the crime of criticizing Ukraine's war effort.
And it is virtually impossible to imagine any concern by the US media over Israel's
arrest of Jeremy Lafredo.
For so many Americans, their love of certain foreign countries, whether it be Ukraine or
Israel, actually overrides any concerns for their own fellow citizens.
Indeed, Israel has killed multiple Americans over the last year or so, including an American
journalist who an investigation found was shot in the head purposely by an Israeli sniper.
And so many Americans who love to proclaim themselves to be super patriots and to put
America first did not raise a peep of protest when Israel killed that American journalist
because they assume that everything Israel does is justified, even when it comes to imprisoning
or killing American citizens.
Tonight, the independent journalist Dan Cohen, who has been covering Alfredo's case...
It will be with us and we will speak to him tonight about all of the details.
Alfredo has previously been a guest on our show as well, where we featured his courageous journalism in documenting, among other things, how Israeli settlers were blocking food and humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.
Clearly, Lafredo's journalism that was critical of the Israelis is undoubtedly a factor, if not the primary factor, in why he is now sitting in an Israeli prison cell, facing very serious charges, without the U.S. State Department or any other organ of the Biden administration uttering a peep of concern or protest about it.
And then finally, Kamala Harris continues her somewhat disastrous media tour by appearing today at a, quote, town hall organized by the Latino network Univision held in Las Vegas.
Earlier today, I was on Megan Kelly's show, which just incidentally happens to be one
of the most watched television programs or political programs in all of the United States,
not just as a podcast, but even on cable news.
It's a show that has grown remarkably.
And I spent two hours on that show, and one of the things we talked a lot about was Kamala's
campaign.
Our own intrepid reporter, Michael Tracy, was there in Las Vegas for the proceedings,
and he will be with us tonight, briefly, I promise, to share with us some of the contrived
aspects and the lowlights of that event that one had to be present in order to see.
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We constantly hear about what an absolutely vital ally Israel is to the United States,
even though so many pieces of evidence negate that claim, beginning with the fact that Israel
constantly and many times over the last year engages in exactly the behavior that the United
States tells Israel will harm and undermine American interests.
And even though it's the United States that gives Israel all the money it wants and needs
to fight these wars and the bombs it uses to destroy the cities of its enemies, Israel
has made no secret of the fact that it doesn't care in the slightest what the United States
wants, will continue to do whatever it decides it wants to do, even when the United States
is saying that it will harm its interests.
That's very odd behavior from someone we're told, from a country we're told is such an
an important ally.
What kind of ally just disregards what you say is in your own interest and continues to do the
things that you say are undermining your own national security? Another odd aspect of our
great ally Israel is that on many occasions they kill American citizens, not just in Gaza,
but in the West Bank and other places.
And they killed journalists and activists and other Americans, often without any cause at all.
And as of today, they even now arrest American journalists, one of whom, Jeremy Lafredo, has been on our show before, has become well known for doing courageous independent reporting.
He often goes to the West Bank and interviews settlers.
He was on our show after he did some amazing work showing that Israeli settlers in the West Bank were deliberately blocking the ability of trucks to carry humanitarian aid into Gaza.
He interviewed them. He showed why it is that they thought that what they were doing was just, how many children were at those blockages in order to show how Israelis are teaching their children that it's somehow noble to prevent food from entering Gaza.
And that very same journalist who has done such important and courageous work, such singular work, in showing a lot of the barbarism and cruelty of Israelis in general and settlers in particular, now finds himself in an American prison cell based on blatantly frivolous charges for doing nothing more than reporting.
Here is Ynet News, an Israeli news outlet that is right-wing, pro-government, pro-war.
Even their own explanation For why Jeremy Lafredo was arrested and now charged and sitting in an Israeli prison makes clear how farcical these charges are.
Quote, American journalists disclose secrets during the Iran attack, police say.
Quote, Jeremy Lafredo, let me remind you one more time, is an American citizen, faces Israeli court after reporting on Israeli missile strikes on several Israeli bases.
U.S. fears possible diplomatic incident following the reporter's actions.
Jeremy Lafredo, 28, an independent American journalist, was arrested by police on suspicion of endangering national security after reporting on where missiles landed in the attack launched by Iran earlier this month in the IDF's Nevatim Air Base and an intelligence base in central Israel.
In his report, Lafredo said that attacks on Gaza were launched from the Nevatim base and said that the government's private jet used by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was located there.
The charges against him include aiding the enemy during wartime and providing information to the enemy.
He published the information openly and fully without attempting to hide anything.
If this information constitutes aid to the enemy, many other journalists in Israel, including
Israeli reporters, should also be arrested," said attorney Liat Smell, who is representing
him in this defense.
Quote, a spy would not have acted so publicly and transparently.
Now let's just summarize what that means.
As you undoubtedly recall, last week, Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles, 200 of them, all aimed at military sites, in contrast to what the Israelis do, which is flatten apartment buildings in civilian areas or flatten and bomb schools and refugee camps.
And hospitals, the Iranian missiles were aimed at Israeli military and intelligence facilities, including the headquarters of Mossad.
And the Israelis, in conjunction with the Western media, tried to lie and say that none of those missiles, or very few of them, actually landed and none of them did any damage because their vaunted Iron Dome system intercepted most of them, even though we all watched the video showing how many of those Iranian missiles were landing and exploding.
And in order to bunk this lie, these claims, Jeremy did exactly what a journalist should do, which is he went to these military bases and was able to show here are gigantic craters in the airstrips used by the Israeli Air Force Base.
Here is We're good to go.
So the idea that somehow he endangered Israeli national security by reporting on the places that Iranian missiles landed and showing the damage that they'd done is laughable on its face for so many reasons, including the fact that there were other Israeli journalists, as his lawyer pointed out, who reported the same information, and yet for some reason were not among those arrested.
Just to give you a sense for what the report was that he published shortly before being arrested, let me show you what it is that he published.
He published it at the Gray Zone, which is a news outlet obviously very critical of Israel.
It has all kinds of local critics of Israel there like Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté and Kit Klittenberg and many others.
The Israeli intelligence agencies and Israel itself obviously hate the gray zone, hate their reporting, hate their viewpoint.
And Jeremy Lafredo has been doing much of his work with the gray zone.
And here is the report.
It's about five and a half minutes long, so I'm just going to show you some of it, of what he reported that led to his arrest and these very serious charges.
as a new judge for yourself whether or not this kind of journalism ought to be criminalized.
Since the missile strikes, Israeli authorities have attempted to downplay the significance of the attacks, censored the locations of missile impacts from media publication, and claimed that Iran was targeting Israeli civilians.
What I saw today, here in Israel, is clear evidence that Iran was targeting the same Israeli intelligence and military infrastructure that's been used over the past year to carry out brutal assassinations and attacks.
The morning after the missile strikes, news reports indicated that one of the principal targets was Nevitim Air Base.
Nevitim Air Base, located deep in the Negev Desert, is the largest and most critical air force base in Israel.
It's home to three squadrons of US-supplied Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jets.
which have played a pivotal role in Israel's year-long air assault on the besieged Gaza Strip.
And as of two weeks ago, these F-35s are also spearheading relentless and devastating strikes in southern Lebanon, so far resulting in the deaths of 2,000 civilians.
The base is also home to Wings of Zion, the Israeli equivalent of Air Force One.
Video footage taken around 8 p.m.
time by Israelis and Palestinian Bedouins who live around the Negev desert show Nevatim
airbase being hit with at least 10 ballistic missiles.
I drove 70 miles south to the highly sensitive air force installation aiming to document
the underreported and potentially embarrassing destruction.
As I approached the military base, F-35 fighter jets were vertically landing at the base, in all likelihood on their way back from killing, 30 miles away in Gaza or 100 miles away in Lebanon.
The road was separated from the base by more than a mile of desert and miles of steel fencing, so seeing any destruction was impossible.
In the Negev desert, there are 46 Palestinian Bedouin villages.
Eighty percent of these villages are, quote, unrecognized by Israel and face constant demolition orders on any permanent or semi-permanent structure, resulting in most of their homes and buildings being built with light material like plywood or sheet metal.
I went village to village asking about the missile strikes.
Most Bedouins were suspicious of me.
But two young men who told me the explosion scared their wives and children claimed they knew where a missile had fallen.
They led me there, but they were unwilling to appear on camera due to concerns for their safety.
All right, so that's the gist of it And I just want to note, first of all, the journalistic courage it requires to just get in your car and drive 70 miles into Israel when you're already known as a highly critical journalist of the Israeli government, often debunking its lies and showing it in a negative light.
And none of this information is secret, nor does it jeopardize Israel in any way.
It just debunks the lies that the Israeli government told, which...
If there's any function of journalism, in my view, it is showing that governments lie about matters of great public relevance.
And that's exactly what he did.
It didn't jeopardize the national security of Israel.
It embarrassed the Israelis by showing what everyone with their own eyes saw on those videos, which is that Iranian missiles were landing and exploding in Israeli military targets.
And for that, he was arrested.
He didn't Get a hold of and then disclose troop movements of where Israelis were attacking in Lebanon.
He didn't reveal future target information of Israeli soldiers that would endanger them or anything like that.
All he did was report on the fact that Iranian missiles landed and did damage to the exact Israeli air bases that are used to air bomb Gaza and Lebanon, which is exactly why the Iranians targeted them.
That is journalism, pure and simple.
Now, when I say simple, I don't mean it's common.
It takes a lot of courage to do what he did as evidenced by the fact that he's now sitting in a jail cell for having done it.
And so often, the most important journalism, the most courageous journalism, the journalism that actually bothers people in power, which is the role of a journalist, does result in them retaliating against you, which is exactly what happened here.
But The odd part, or the part that should be odd, is that the Israelis are acting against an American citizen, an American journalist whose government is providing Israel all the money, arms and weapons it needs to carry out these wars.
And there should be an uprising in the United States among journalists, American journalists, American media outlets, the American government, over the fact that Israel has now imprisoned an American journalist simply for doing Reporting.
Now, just to give you a sense of the sorts of things that Lafredo has been doing over the last year, including some of the work that caused him to have us invite him on his show, where he goes and interviews Israeli settlers in the West Bank, just to give you a sense for who these settlers are and how they think, Let me show you one of his reports that he did from March
of this year.
Friends, it's Wednesday.
Here we are to block the aid trucks of Nazi Hamas and their helpers.
So this was showing when the UN, the US, were demanding that more humanitarian aid be let in, especially food and medicine, to Gaza, because they were starving to death on purpose by the Israeli blockade.
And these Israeli settlers, by all accounts, under international law, illegally occupying the West Bank, Went and had protests to stand in front of these trucks and preventing them from entering Gaza.
And he went to interview them about not only what they were doing, about why they were doing it.
And here's one of the settlers, the Israeli settlers, who talked to him and said, as you can see, our people are blocking the primary crossing.
We are also blocking the secondary crossing on this side.
We can see here from the trucks of food for the Hamas Nazis and their helpers.
All of these trucks for miles from the Nazis inside?
All aid for Hamas and their friends in these trucks?
Come and block it.
Come. What are we trying to do, said another one, to block the aid trucks from crossing into Egypt?
And from Egypt it will go to the people of Gaza and to Hamas.
It will help Hamas. It's very successful.
Look, the aid trucks were supposed to be entering Gaza from 10 in the morning today and we are blocking them from entering.
It's been days since any AIDS trucks have passed through, so there you have it.
It works. I think what we need, I don't know, we need to be united and kill all of them.
We all need to go back to Gaza and control all of it.
Make it part of our country.
This is a young Israeli.
We're often told that the Palestinians teach their children to hate the Jews, to hate Israel, to want to be violent.
A lot of these people took their kids, their young children, and told them that they were purposely blocking food from getting to the people of Gaza because the people of Gaza are basically Nazis and subhumans and don't deserve any food.
So it's a very important piece of reporting.
It's just giving voice to Israeli settlers about what they're doing and what they really think.
Now, this is not the first time, to put that mildly, that the Israeli military has acted against American citizens, including American journalists.
And when I say acted against, I mean not just arrest them, but kill them.
Hear from CBS News in May of 2022, and you'd be forgiven if you forgot about this or never heard about it since almost no American journalist or government official raised a peep about it.
There's the title, Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akil was killed covering Israeli Defense Force raid in West Bank.
A journalist for Al Jazeera, an American journalist, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli
raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin earlier Wednesday.
By occupied, she means, they mean occupied by the Israeli.
Israeli military. The broadcaster and a reporter who was wounded in the incident
blamed Israeli officials while Israel said there was evidence the two were hit
by Palestinian gunfire. So Israel lied and tried to claim that they were killed
by Palestinian gunfire not their own.
Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian female reporter for the broadcaster's Arabic language channel, was shot and died soon afterwards.
Israeli officials said there was video of Palestinian gunmen boasting that they had killed a soldier, but that no Israelis were wounded in the incident, indicating they shot a journalist.
That was the Israeli's original defense.
Oh, we didn't do it. Those dirty Palestinians killed this American journalist.
You'll be shocked to know, I'm sure, that that turned out to be a total lie from CNN in May 2022.
They were shooting directly at the journalist.
New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akla was killed in a targeted attack by Israeli forces.
Quote, When the camera operator pans around the corner, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abulakla can be seen lying motionless face down on the ground as another Palestinian reporter crutches down beside her using a tree trunk for cover.
She then reaches out and tries to rouse her as gunshots continue.
There's no response. Both women are wearing helmets and blue protective vests marked press.
In the moments that follow, a man in a white t-shirt makes several attempts to move Abu Akhla but is forced back repeatedly by gunfire.
So he tried to save her by getting her to help, and then he was shot at too.
Finally, after a few long minutes, he manages to drag her body from the street.
The shaky video filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Maji Banura captures the scene where Abu Akhla, a 51-year-old Palestinian American, was killed by a bullet to the head At around 6.30 a.m.
on May 11th, she had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of the Janine refugee camp when they had come to cover an Israeli raid.
While the footage does not show Abu Akhl being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Israeli forces on the same street fired deliberately on their reporters in a targeted attack.
All the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the media.
And ultimately more investigations were done that documented that the IDF shot her.
The IDF ultimately admitted shooting her but tried to claim it was accidental.
So you see the trajectory of lies told by the IDF and if you can find any hint or evidence in mainstream media circles or governmental circles in the United States About the idea of purposely shooting an American journalist in the head while she was doing her job, please show it to me because I saw almost none of it, including from the people who love to proclaim themselves America First patriots, but who suddenly decide that when a foreign country called Israel murders or arrests American journalists, That doesn't bother them at all because they value Israel and love Israel and are more loyal to Israel than they are to their own fellow citizens,
which is the case with Jeremy Lafredo as well.
These things are common from AP in September of 2024, meaning last month.
An American activist was killed by Israeli fire and is buried in Turkey as Israel strikes Gaza.
A Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank was laid to rest on Saturday in her hometown in Turkey with thousands lining the streets and anti-Israel feelings in the country rising from a conflict that threatens to spread across the region.
Ansar Egyi, a 26-year-old woman from Seattle, she was raised in the United States, born and raised in the United States, was shot dead September 6th by an Israeli soldier during a demonstration against Israeli West Bank settlements, according to an Israeli protester who witnessed the shooting.
The Israeli minister said Tuesday that she was likely shot, quote, indirectly and unintentionally by Israeli forces.
If you don't remember any American government or American journalist protest over the shooting of this American citizen who was peacefully demonstrating against the Israelis, you'd be forgiven because there was none.
PBS News, January 2024.
Family and classmates mourn the loss of a New Orleans-area teen killed in the West Bank.
Also something that resulted in almost no notice or protest in the United States because Israel killing Americans is viewed as something that, like everything Israel does, is justified, including by people who have to portray themselves as placing America first.
Here is an Al Jazeera article next from...
October 7th of this year.
Quote, Michigan community remembers an American killed in Lebanon by an Israeli strike.
Kamil Jawad was killed October 1st while volunteering in his hometown of Navathi, said his family.
So now you have Americans being bombed to death by Israel using American weapons as well.
From the Washington Post in February of 2024, quote, Mohammed Amud Alkdor was shot twice in the head near the town of Badu, northwest of Jerusalem, before he was rushed to a hospital.
His aunt said he was pronounced dead Saturday night.
Quote, he loved cars and hanging out with his friends, she told the Post on Tuesday.
We were devastated.
It's remarkable how little concern there is.
When Israel kills Americans, you see where the loyalty lies.
And it's not with Americans.
Not with American journalists who are arrested.
Not with American journalists who are killed.
Not with American activists who are killed by Israel either.
Our great and important and close, indispensable ally.
People who are in our country who are our fellow citizens.
Every bit as much American citizens as anyone else being killed by weapons supplied by our own government to our great ally Israel.
One of the things that I found really interesting and commendable Was a report by a very popular Fox News reporter, Trey Yanks, who goes around the world covering war zones all the time.
And he's a real reporter from Fox News and I've seen a lot of his reporting.
I have a lot of respect for it. He's also covered things at the border.
And that's why he's become a popular Fox News reporter.
And even though he tries to do his job as a reporter, he knows he worked for Fox News.
And the vast majority of the Fox News audience worships and loves Israel and wants to hear absolutely nothing negative about it.
All those uber-patriots, American uber-patriots, who refuse to hear a negative word about this foreign government on the other side of the world.
They love hearing vicious attacks on their own government and their own country.
Just constantly heap scorn and contempt and insult on the United States, the country to which they claim they're most loyal, but criticize or do anything that reflects negatively on this tiny little country they love more on the other side of the world called Israel, and all hell breaks loose.
And yet knowing that, look at the report that he filed, having covered Israel and Gaza since October 7th, and he published it on October 7th, 2024, so on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attack.
Just listen to what he said, not just about what was happening in Gaza, but about what he felt he needed to say as a journalist demanding the free press rights of other journalists, including in Gaza, be protected.
Listen to this segment.
There are so many neighborhoods that are flattened.
Palestinians that are internally displaced will simply have no homes to return to.
And while we get a first-hand look at the destruction here, it's important to remember that Palestinian journalists do not have this access.
They have been pushed to the south.
Dozens have been killed. There's this false narrative about Palestinian journalists.
More than 100 of them have been killed by Israel since the war began.
And I take very few positions in the conflicts that we covered.
But let this be a position that I take.
Journalists, specifically Palestinian journalists, must be protected amid the war.
The Israelis have killed journalists in drone strikes.
They've killed them with small arms fire.
And it's unacceptable.
Just massive credit to him for having said that.
And I should just note that there is a new documentary out from Al Jazeera that is directed by a longtime mainstream British journalist.
I highly recommend that you watch.
It's about an hour and 20 minutes.
We are interviewing the director of that film tomorrow.
We have permission from Al Jazeera to show the first 15 minutes.
Most of it is based not on Palestinian claims, but on a lot of claims from the IDF itself that come from the postings that Israeli soldiers have made inside Gaza that are repulsive and degenerate and sadistic and criminal.
And it really synthesizes the full year of what's been going on, so I just want to preview that for you.
But what Trey Yang said there is what every American journalist should be saying, and yet virtually none are, which is, I don't take positions as a journalist, but the one thing I will take a position on Is how immoral and dangerous it is for Israel to be not just incidentally killing journalists by accident through indiscriminate violence, but clearly personally targeting journalists, targeting their homes, wiping out their entire families by killing not just them, but everyone around them.
And it's happened repeatedly.
To the point where that Fox News reporter, to his great credit, could no longer endure being silent about it.
And I hope that's a lesson to other American journalists who should speak up when things
like that happen, as well as when things like the arrest of Jeremy Lafredo happened as well
for his reporting that he did, which is every right to do about lies told by the Israeli
government.
Joining us now is Dan Cohen, who is a journalist at Uncaptured News.
He has co-produced the award-winning documentary, Killing Gaza.
He formerly produced video reports and print dispatches from Israel and Palestine, from
Latin America, from the U.S.-Mexico border, while working as Behind the Headlines Washington
correspondent.
His most recent work, covering the imprisonment of Jeremy Lafredo, which we just discussed,
is what brings him here to our show tonight.
He has really covered this story, knows the details of it, and we are very thankful to
have him on.
Thanks so much for coming on tonight.
We appreciate it. Glad to be with you, Glenn.
All right, so let's start by talking about the Israeli version of events when it comes to the detention, arrest, and now the very serious charges launched against Jeremy Lafredo, who's been on our show.
I know you know him and have a lot of respect for his work.
What is it that the Israelis have done and what are they claiming justifies that?
Well, Jeremy Lafredo was arrested, I believe, on Tuesday, October 8th.
I have not been in touch with him, so I don't have any direct contact.
But the Israelis accused him of aiding the enemy during wartime and providing information to the enemy.
So, I suppose what they are saying is that his report showing the damage that the Iranian
missile strikes caused on Israel, on Israeli military bases and near Mossad headquarters,
that constitutes providing information to the enemy and aiding the enemy.
Of course, Iran may be happy to see that, but that's, you know, as his lawyer actually
pointed out in court, if he were trying to be a spy, if he were doing espionage, he wouldn't
publish it.
He would send it to them clandestinely or something like that.
So it's Completely absurd.
So this was all based on the fact that Jeremy did not submit his video report that he published for the Grey Zone to the Israeli military censor, which few people know that there is an entire military censorship regime that exists in Israel.
That all journalists are legally obliged by Israeli law to submit their work to, their written work, their videos.
And if they don't, they can be denied a press card or press accreditation from the Israeli government.
So I think it's very much about narrative control.
The thing is, what came out in the court hearing was that Jeremy reported on these strikes, specifically at the Neva Team Air Base in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, and just outside the Mossad headquarters in northern Tel Aviv.
In fact, PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin actually reported on the missile strike damage, this huge pit damage to vehicles very close to the Mossad headquarters days before Jeremy did and published this and was not punished at all.
There was no issue for him.
Did he submit his report to the Israeli military censor?
I don't know. So if he did, then it shows that the same information was completely allowed.
If he didn't, then it shows that he was not punished.
So either way, it's completely arbitrary and punishment of Jeremy Lafredo, his arrest and detention.
And in addition to that, the Israeli website Ynet, Yeriot Aronoth, and I-24, both Israeli publications, they published articles on Jeremy Lafredo's arrest in which they included Jeremy's report.
His entire video report was embedded in these online articles, and those, at least the Yeriot Ynet Report was actually approved by the military sensor.
So all of the information that Jeremy published Was approved by the military censor.
So basically what happened is when this was argued in court, the judge who was overseeing the case said, okay, then we have to release him.
There's no grounds to hold him.
But then the police came back and said, well, we spoke to the actual censor, and they said that when...
The Yediot report did not actually submit their report to the censor until it was already published, and so therefore they just said, well, it's already published, so we'll just go along with it.
What's clear to me, so on that basis, they extended Jeremy's detention another 24 hours.
The judge approved the police appeal, and he will be back in court on Friday.
But what's clear to me is the entire thing is completely arbitrary.
Nick Schifrin from PBS NewsHour is not In jail, and he shouldn't be.
Of course I'm saying, you know, I'm being entirely consistent that he should not be punished, he should not be imprisoned, but you'd think that he should at least speak out, considering an independent journalist, a fellow journalist, is being punished for the exact same thing that he did, and the other two, the Yediot and I-24 cases, show that the Israelis actually don't have any real problem with this information coming out.
I think it's just that they want it to come out from...
sources.
They don't want some independent journalist digging around, getting his nose in places,
you know, they don't really want and embarrassing them, as you said.
Well, just a couple of things about that.
So, the charges that have been lodged against him consist of two different allegations.
One is that he failed to submit his reporting to the Israeli censorship regime as required by the region's only democracy, Israel.
And you can read, oftentimes, it's amazing, you read in Herets or other Israeli press, When they release even benign information, like there was that terrorist attack that killed, I think, six Israelis with two gunmen on a bus last week.
And when Heretz published the identities of the victims, the people who were dead, they made very clear they were allowed to publish the names because the Israeli censors had cleared it.
So let's say there's an Israeli censorship regime and Jeremy did not go through all of the processes to get permission to report this.
In no other instance, say in Russia or China or Iran, we would consider it justifiable to imprison a journalist for failing to get the approval of censors from those governments.
But let's leave that aside.
Let's say that he didn't go through those processes of the Israeli censorship regime.
The other obviously more serious charge is that he aided and abetted Iran by publishing this information.
Now, you made the point Obviously, the quite relevant point that there was another journalist who published the same information, which means Jeremy's publication of that reporting did not tell Iran anything they didn't already know as a result of that reporting.
But even absent that, to me, it seems ludicrous that a country as sophisticated as Iran that just proved for the second time that they have the capabilities to launch highly sophisticated ballistic missiles guided with great precision Is it even theoretically possible that by driving outside of an Air Force Base, Jeremy Lafredo was able to discover things that the Iranian military and intelligence didn't already know?
Well, not a chance.
I mean, when Jeremy's report from near the Nevatim Air Force Base didn't even show actual damage to the base itself, he showed the wreckage of a missile nearby in an unrecognized Bedouin village nearby the base.
Let alone, we had already seen the videos that came out of numerous strikes hitting Nevatim Air Base.
So there's no question about it.
There were also aerial photographs, satellite photographs that showed damage.
So there was no secret about that.
And the only other one was the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, which, as we know, were pointed
out—if you watch the video by Nick Schifrin, which is still on his Twitter to this day,
you know, at this moment, he points out the Mossad headquarters are right behind him.
He's standing in front of a massive pit, 30 feet deep and 50 feet wide, he says.
And there's the Mossad headquarters directly behind me.
The only difference, Jeremy added the coordinates, the GPS coordinates for the Mossad headquarters.
But again, as you pointed out, there's no way that Iran's intelligence, military...
They shot at it.
They shot at the Mossad headquarters.
They know exactly where it is.
Exactly. I know this might be a little bit of a speculation, but I'm just going to use my own experience before.
I know when I started doing the Snowden reporting and the strategy we used, both Laura Poitras and I, who were unaffiliated, In an employment way with any major media outlet, that's why Snowden came to us, was that, look, we can't really just do this on our own because if we do, it's going to be much easier to demonize us.
We kind of commandeered the American media to get on our side by working with the Washington Post and her case and the Guardian and my case, eventually the New York Times and other major outlets around the world.
I did the same in Brazil when I did reporting that I knew if I had done by myself, it would have been a lot easier to criminalize what I was doing.
Instead, we partnered with large media outlets.
It's not just that Jeremy is independent.
It's that he has worked with the gray zone, which is as vocal and aggressive a critic of Israel as it gets.
On top of that, he has done, as we reviewed, a lot of reporting, great reporting.
That embarrassed Israel as well, showing for example Israeli settlers bringing their children to block humanitarian aid such as food from entering into Gaza.
It's hard not to believe that that did not play some role, if not the major role, in why the Israelis wanted to arrest him and charge him with these crimes.
What do you think about that? Yeah, I think that's a fair assessment.
I mean, Jeremy has been one of extremely few, if not the only independent journalist I can think of that has gone to Israel over the past year, since October 7th.
And shown what is actually happening in Israeli society with the blockade on the aid trucks going into Gaza that you showed, showing the fanatical settlers in the West Bank and their overtly genocidal speech, and now this.
So I think it's, you know, they do not want pesky independent reporters going around.
They want basically—I'll put it this way.
In order to get an Israeli press credential, which technically you have to do if you want
to be a journalist in Israel at all, you have to go to the Israeli government press office
and basically show that the outlet you work for gets enough views on a daily basis that
it basically weeds out the small guys.
So if you're an independent journalist, you're not going to be really allowed to do journalism.
You need to stay kind of on the down low and avoid brushing up with any kind of authorities
or anything like that.
And you won't be allowed into any kind of official events back in the period when you
could get into the Gaza Strip.
The only way I was able to get in was I got a press card, but I basically deceived to—I
said that I was working for Alternet, and I'd barely done any work for Alternet.
And because I'm a nice Jewish-American guy named Dan Cohen, they were not as skeptical,
and so they approved it.
But that was the only way I could do it.
I did my work and made the documentary Killing Gaza.
But once they kind of figured out what I was doing, that was it.
They wouldn't give me a visa anymore, let alone a press card.
So it's very much about narrative control.
And yes, I think you're right that it's about punishing Jeremy, so he doesn't want to come back.
So others who might think of going there will think twice about going to Israel and, you know, maybe being put on, thrown in detention or taken to a military base and roughed up or even beaten.
And, you know, so they don't want to do it.
So I think it's fair to say that this is really about sending a message when you look at the arbitrary nature of Jeremy Lafredo's punishment.
So there's that side of it, which is the Israeli ability to punish him based on the perception that he's just an independent journalist.
But then there's the other side, which is the American media and the American government.
Which, just from a very surface-level, reflexive analysis would suggest, should be rising up in defense of the free press rights of their fellow American journalist and their American citizen.
And I've seen, over the years, probably the thing that has driven me the craziest is that Julian Assange sat in a dungeon for five and a half years for doing some of the most important reporting while the American media said virtually nothing.
I don't know.
I feel very safe predicting that if Jeremy remains in prison, or even if he's released shortly, there will be almost no coverage, let alone crusade in his behalf, on the part of the American media.
Why do you think that is?
Is it because they perceive independent journalists as sort of not legitimate and not one of them, or is it because in this case it's Israel doing it and they're loathe to criticize Israel, or is it a combination of both?
You know, I think probably for the individual journalists, even the ones who may see this and think it's bad, if they speak out, that's obviously the end of their career.
You know, they're going to be out of the Washington Post or PBS or whatever it may be.
There may also be an ideological thing where it's, you know, we don't like what Jeremy's doing, and therefore, you know, we're going to suspend our principles.
We're going to abandon our principles because we actually kind of want to see him get punished.
But, you know, I think in the bigger picture, it's all about geopolitics.
It's all about, you know...
The US, I mean, everything we saw, the outpouring of sympathy that we saw for Evan Gershowitz, the Wall Street Journal reporter, was, as you said, there was, you know, it was a total contrast to what's happening now, to what happened to Assange.
I mean, I look at, there was another reporter named Pablo Gonzalez, who was a Spanish-Russian citizen.
He was held without charges.
Never charged in administrative detention in Poland for about two years.
And he was only released about a month ago thanks to the intervention of actually Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This guy's a dual Russian-Spanish citizen.
And the Spanish government did literally nothing for him.
They completely abandoned him.
So the only reason he's out is because of our NATO partners' prison in Poland is because of Putin.
So this is the West in general, not only the United States, but its EU and NATO allies that are perfectly happy to see their own citizens suffer in prison or whatever may happen to them because those are their allies doing it.
And the United States certainly doesn't want Israel to be embarrassed because the Biden administration and basically the bipartisan war machine is totally joined at the hip.
I mean, everything, I think, is subservient to geopolitics.
Yeah, including the liberty and the lives of American citizens.
We didn't even mention Shireen Abu Akhla, who was shot in the head by IDF forces while wearing a press vest.
They first lied about it, tried to claim it was Palestinians who shot her when that became untenable.
They admitted it was them.
They claimed it was an accident and reports proved that it was actually deliberate.
And the number of Americans who know that happened has to be infinitesimal because it barely got any coverage In the media.
All right. Well, Dan, I'm very appreciative of your coverage of this.
I learned a lot of the details about what is going on in Jeremy's case in Israel through your reporting, both online and elsewhere where you're doing your reporting.
So we'd love to have you come back on to sort of fill us in on how this story proceeds, because it's definitely something we intend to cover.
Absolutely. Thank you, Glenn. All right.
Have a great evening, Dan.
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a coup on the entire country has been to hide her and make sure, for very good reason, that
she avoids unscripted moments.
Unfortunately for her, that strategy, which seemed to have been worked in the beginning, has been increasingly failing.
Her poll numbers are starting to soften, to put that mildly, and as a result, their strategy
has clearly changed, sending her on a media tour, even to the friendliest places where
much of her behavior and a lot of her answers have proven to be more embarrassing than anything
else.
That strategy continued by putting her into what was billed as a town hall of undecided
Latino voters in Nevada, run by the Latino news network Univision, and we sent our roving,
on the road, intrepid, independent reporter, Michael Tracy, to Las Vegas, where he witnessed
the entire spectacle, and needless to say, has a great deal of things to say about a
lot of the aspects of what happened, including the parts that were clearly contrived and
embarrassing.
Michael, good evening.
It's always great to see you.
Thanks so much for coming on our show.
Glenn, it's always such a pleasure and honor to be with you.
Yeah, and you got to witness a lot of the show beforehand in your earphone.
I know that you've warned a lot about the many things we covered, including precious metal investments, as well as the things that are going on in Israel.
So I don't need your comment on that, but I do want to get your comment, though, on the event that you just witnessed in Las Vegas.
So just give us your kind of first-sentence impression of what it is that you saw.
Right. So Univision, I guess that would be the more...
Was that good? Was that all right? Very good.
All right. Thank you. Thank you.
I'm assuming that was totally sincere of a compliment on your part.
Univision, I'll use my gringo pronunciation, has proclaimed that it's holding these...
Decision 2024, Destino 2024 town halls with both Kamala and Trump.
Trump's was also supposed to be this week, but got postponed because it was to be held in Miami and the hurricane obviously passed through.
So Kamala's went forward today in Las Vegas, where I am.
It was on the campus of UNLV, so the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
And I think people ought to remember what The purpose of a town hall traditionally is.
Like, what is the genesis or the etymology of that phrase?
A town hall is where you could just...
Anybody could show up, raise their hand, and ask a question.
Obviously, that's not how it works in the modern political era where everything is so heavily scripted and choreographed.
But this took things to a different level.
So they did permit media to get some kind of access to this venue, which in practice means
you just get shunted into a side room and you're afforded the luxury of sitting there
and watching a feed of the event on camera.
It's similar to how they organize where nobody's actually allowed
in the actual debate venue anymore.
You have to just go to a separate room.
But so be it.
And I figured one of the values, one value that could be gained from going to this in person would be that I could interview the town hall participants Afterwards, to better understand how it is that they came to be selected to attend this event or to gauge what their impressions were of Kamala Harris, you know, very standard journalistic style inquiries.
But what I was flabbergasted to discover was that according to the Univision Director of Corporate Communications, and I'll even give you her name, Anna Negron, Just so people can look it up on their own if they so desire.
I asked her, so are we going to be able to talk to the town hall Participants afterwards?
Because we sat there and watched the full event.
It was completely banal and generic, other than Kamala Harris added Alberto Gonzalez to the cast of Bush administration officials whose endorsements she's touting.
Obviously, she went through the superstars of Dick and Liz Cheney, but she threw in Alberto Gonzalez, the former attorney general, to resign and And who I'm sure is beloved widely by the entire Latino voting population who remembers him so fondly as his role of attorney general for about two years, 14 years ago.
But he has a good last name for that venue, Alberto Gonzalez.
Right. But yeah, so Kamala made sure to name drop him because the surname Gonzalez must have just been so invigorating to everybody who was watching.
Anyway, this was billed as undecided voters who had been selected to go to this event.
But the head of the Corporate Communications Bureau for Univision said that...
You want to say her name again? Anna Negron.
She said, quote, we won't be making them available.
As though, I guess, it was for us, the attending journalists, to wait to be graced by them with the opportunity to do even some semblance of journalism at this event.
Otherwise, I guess we were just...
You know, relegated to sitting and politely watching this live feed of an event that was taped and now is going to air tonight.
So that's closed off, and other journalists also attempted to ask her the same question, and it just wasn't allowed, according to her.
But I did get a little bit of additional information because, as you noted, Glenn, and I'm extremely intrepid, and I don't take no for an answer.
So what I figured out was that There were two segments of the audience who they filled this, quote-unquote, town hall venue with.
One segment were actually entitled to stand up and ask questions, meaning the host called on them and they stood up and asked a question.
These are people from around the country, Latino voters, who were flown in at the expense of Univision, which is odd.
I mean, we're in swing state of Nevada.
There are plenty of people, I'm sure, in Clark County, Nevada, who would have been more than
happy to go and ask Kamala Harris a question.
But instead, they flew people from Florida and Wisconsin and California and other places
to Las Vegas to ask these questions that I guess only they could ask.
One question was just to basically prompt Kamala to give her generic platitudes on immigration
policy or other stuff.
The final question was, can you name three virtues of Donald Trump?
So the feel-good question that sometimes candidates get asked where they have to praise their opponent.
So that was strange.
But the... There were also other people in the audience at this event who were not called upon to ask questions but were just filling seats.
And that duty, it so happens, was outsourced to a company called Fans on Cue.
Fans on Letter Q, which is one of the strange services who, which if you never really thought about it, you would never really think about it having existed, or you never think about the fact that it exists, but once you hear that it exists, it makes sense.
It's a company that goes and puts out casting calls for audience members to attend stuff like music award shows.
So this company is used for the Latin Grammy Awards.
Where they have people, you know, who go and dance at the award show, but they're selected and vetted ahead of time.
I guess maybe they're young, good-looking, whatever.
And they employ that same service for this event.
And I sent a little clip that I got from my interview.
I was able to interview some of those people, even though it was unsanctioned, apparently, by Univision.
We couldn't get to the...
You know, the sacrosanct handful of people who asked the questions, they were in like a separate area.
But the ordinary people who got access or mittens through this weird company, they were just kind of funneling out.
I was able to ask them questions.
So if you want to pull up, I mean, again, this was billed on the official PR press release for Univision as specifically tailored to undecided voters and that the event would be filled with undecided voters.
And you could play the clip if you have it.
I think we have a lot to do tonight.
We've assigned limited time to you at the request of our audience.
Okay, let me just tell you. It doesn't matter.
It's not that exciting. We're going to be putting those videos, just to be clear, on the Locals platform for now.
What? Yeah, we have...
Oh, there's actually one clip that we do have that we're going to play.
I think the one that you wanted, but the rest are going to go on on Locals just because there's a lot of them and we can't show you.
Let's play this clip that Michael's yapping about.
I was decided before, but a lot of people just wasn't.
So you were already decided before you came?
Yes. You were?
Okay. So were you an undecided voter, or did you know?
I already knew I was going to go for Kamala before then, and now that just kind of solidified it.
So I'm already convinced. So you weren't undecided?
So you were going to vote for her even before you went to her?
Part of the reason why I wanted to go was to also fully support her.
By the way, did you chide him for mispronouncing her name because that bolsters white supremacy or did you let that go?
I was too transfixed on his bombshell admission that he was already a Kamala.
No, it is amazing that they built this as a town hall for undecided voters.
And he said, not only had I already decided in advance that I was going to vote for Kamala, I specifically came to give her support.
So I presume even this section of the audience, not permitted to ask questions, nonetheless were part of the response in the hall, like clapping or cheering or whatever.
Right. So what the viewer at home is seeing, if they watch this on television, includes the reactions from these allegedly undecided voters to Kamala Harris' answers to questions.
Making it seem like she's winning over the crowd from these totally neutral undecided voters.
And there was one more person who I spoke to who got into the crowd because he is for Stephen Horsford, who is a Democratic member of Congress from the Las Vegas area.
And he said he knew somebody in some progressive organization.
That's how he got in.
So the entire pretense of this town hall was a complete fabrication.
I don't know how it's going to work with the Trump town hall, but I do know for sure that this one was billed on false pretenses, which I guess shouldn't surprise us, given the nature of the Donald Harris campaign.
Yeah, I guess the Trump town hall will probably also be filled with equally non-undecided voters, though, in the other direction.
Let me just ask you the one substantive question.
Question that I'm interested in.
And I presume, as you said, most of these were banalities, so maybe there was nothing to it.
But typically at these Univision town halls, we've seen them before, a focus of the questions are about immigration policy.
There's been a longtime assumption on the part of the Democratic Party that Latino voters are opposed to harsh and aggressive attempts to close the border or attempts by Donald Trump to rhetorically condemn immigrants.
And I think there's been a lot of polling that shows that that's actually not the case, but that's been the assumption of the Democratic Party.
So you have Kamala Harris as part of this Democratic wing that for, you know, the four
years of the Trump administration was comparing Trump to Hitler as a result of his harsh rhetoric
about closing the border.
And now Kamala is trying to sell herself as actually more of a border hawk than even Trump
is.
Well, how did she try and navigate that issue?
She tried to navigate that issue by repeating one of her stock answers, which although I
I don't, you know, fervently follow every single single Kamala Harris media appearance.
I've heard enough to know that her stock answer on any question related to
immigration has to do with that Senate bill that she claims back in February,
Donald Trump interceded to kill.
And that shows that Trump is actually weak on immigration policy because the
border patrol union supported the bill.
It would have added funding for X number of additional border guards,
and it would have expedited the asylum process so people can be,
so unauthorized migrants can be processed at a greater speed and then potentially be expelled
if they don't meet the criteria, et cetera, et cetera.
That was her stock answer here.
So you're right, if this was in 2020, or I mean in the 2019 primaries,
I know I remember each, virtually all of the candidates in the democratic primaries, including Kamala,
competed amongst themselves for who could project the most permissive border policy
because they were trying to make it, draw it as a contrast with Trump,
who was the Hitler in presiding over concentration camps with AOC going to the outskirts and crying for photo shoots.
In her white outfit, her angelic white outfit.
Yeah. But this is what I find so interesting, Michael.
But the point is Kamala didn't even modify her messaging for a predominantly Latino audience here.
She's now, even amongst this particular demographic, trying to signal her border hawkishness, which gets to your point about how maybe these longstanding conceptions about what Latino voters prioritize are no longer operative.
But I also think it's a big part of the failure of the Kamala Harris campaign because you cannot go around for four years claiming that Trump is a new Hitler imposing a white nationalist dictatorship because he wants to keep illegal immigrants from flowing into the country.
And then just a mere four years later with no explanation, going around and saying, no, he was actually soft on immigration and I'm going to be much harsher, without people just instinctively understanding that this is the exact opposite of everything you've been saying and after hearing everything they've heard, Nobody's going to think that, of all things, Trump is soft on immigrants and on the border.
It's such a preposterous attempt to just pretend to be something that you're not.
And I do think it's interesting that even in front of a Latino audience, as you said, maybe they're coming to the realization that a lot of Latinos, especially ones who are citizens and who vote, Actually are not in favor of the border being porous and being constantly flooded with illegal aliens.
And maybe that's what convinced the Democrats, even in front of an audience like this, to start changing their minds.
So in any event, I think one of the best things about going to these events when you do is you provide this kind of background insight about how it actually functions, the real way that it was set up, rather than just...
You know, sort of going to a debate spin room and being like, who do you think won?
Or going here and reporting on the dumb things.
Did Governor Walz do what he had to do tonight?
I'm serious, Glenn. This is a brief aside, but you've got to give me 10 seconds to rant on this.
At those spin rooms for the debates, I'm not exaggerating when I say that virtually every other journalist that I encounter, or even over here, they ask variations of...
Did J.D. Vance or did Tim Walz do what they had to do tonight so the surrogate can just give some pat response that nobody's going to remember or care about within about 12 hours?
And then when I ask about Israel policy, as you mentioned last week, they throw a hissy fit.
I know. And the reason why it's so terrible...
to speak to people close to a presidential candidate, you can ask them anything and you
ask them a moronic, horse-race question like that, but to be asking it to someone who's
there specifically to be a surrogate for the candidate, in other words, to say that they've
won and you're asking the exact question that they're there to answer in a way that you
know what the answer is going to be, who has so little dignity that you're willing to participate
in that kind of contrived theater when you have the opportunity?
And the fact that they were angry at you for not engaging in that, for actually asking someone a question, is one of my favorite things since the Tammy Duckworth interview.
The journalists were getting ready to form an angry mob and force me out of the room.
Because you were asking policy questions.
They were so bewildered by the idea of asking a Democratic Party campaign surrogate, here's what Walt said about Israel policy.
Here's how that relates to your votes in favor of funding the war.
I mean, and this is not just, I mean, this is not like asking about Israel policy would be warranted virtually any time given how large of a recipient of so-called aid they are from the U.S. But this was like on a week where there was a giant new front and the war opening up.
And yet it was still bizarre to these other media people that I would ask something that had a bit more substance.
I mean, you really do have to see it to believe it.
Yeah, we saw some of it.
All right, Michael, your time for this evening has expired.
We are very happy to see you and to hear your insights as always.
And now we must bid you a good evening.
Glenn, I congratulate you on tolerating me for about 12 minutes.
Longer than we expected.
Getting close to the upper limits of your tolerance.
Absolutely. And just to remind our audience, the other interviews that Michael was able to conduct outside of the permission of the corporate vice president of Univision, whose name you may want to repeat one more time, just so that people know.
Anna Negron. Anna Negron will be available for our local members on the local platform where we'll put Those other ones.
All right, Michael, have a good evening.
Thanks so much. Bye.
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