r/JewsOfConscience • u/MondoweissOfficial • Sep 12 '22

AMA I produce the Mondoweiss Podcast – AMA!

Hi r/JewsOfConscience, I'm Dave and I am the product manager at Mondoweiss. I produce the Mondoweiss Podcast, assist with video production, and various other work related to running an independent, non-profit news and opinion publication.

https://mondoweiss.net

https://mondoweiss.net/podcast/

Ask me anything!

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Recently, Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh, was placed in administrative detention by Israel for 8 days (on top of an existing sentence I believe).

I'm not sure what the details are of her specific case, but I think an important topic in I/P is Israel's detaining of Palestinian journalists.

As a Western-based agency, I would assume MW has not run into those issues for diplomatic reasons - but at the same time, you have Palestinians on your staff.

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Has there been any challenges with Israel's security apparatus in the OPT, when trying to report stories?

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u/MondoweissOfficial Sep 12 '22

Mariam Barghouti is actually doing a webinar with the Ottowa Forum on Israel/Palestine TOMORROW on this very topic. She also wrote a piece about it recently that is worth checking out.

We haven't experienced too many issues, but there is the day-to-day reality of the occupation that our staff have to deal with. Yumna and her team were working on a video on the situation in Masafer Yatta when they were detained by Israeli military personnel. Fortunately they were let go, but only after a higher ranked officer showed up. Their IDs had been taken from them.

Here's the video, Saving Masafer Yatta.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Interesting! Thanks. I'll see about that webinar.