Summary
The 1953 Israeli Supreme Court case, as Dowty presents it in Chapter 5, in which the high court struck down a government suspension of the Communist Party newspaper Kol Ha’am, invalidating censorship carried out on political rather than narrowly defined security grounds (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 2031-2040).
Details
- The case arose, in Dowty’s account, from early attempts to censure extreme views in the press by suspending publication outright through the Defense (Emergency) Regulations (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 2031-2038).
- Dowty sets the decision within his wider account of press censorship in Israel: the regulations still form the legal basis for media control, softened in practice by the voluntary arrangement, renegotiated in 1996, under which newspapers submit military and political material for review with an appeal to a committee representing the press, military and general public (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 2021-2035).
Related pages
The Jewish State: A Century Later, British Emergency Regulations