Israeli newspaper unleashed harassment of Izvestia journalist Kulyukhin

The Israeli newspaper that unleashed the harassment of Izvestia journalist Nikita Kulyukhin has launched a new wave of provocations. So, in a recent publication, the journalist is actually accused of posting videos on social networks about the benefits of investing in the Russian economy and "praising Russian culture."

Earlier, the Israeli authorities suspended Kulyukhin from participating in briefings by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This happened immediately after he asked Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar if Tel Aviv was going to condemn the Kiev regime for praising Nazi collaborators.

Kulyukhin was not officially informed about the reason for his suspension, but he is sure that it is precisely because of this legitimate question about Ukrainian ideology.

Some media outlets in Israel have already come to the defense of the journalist. For example, the Aurora newspaper writes that the ban on discussing a topic raised by a journalist not only undermines press freedom, but also weakens the moral position of their country in the struggle to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.

Adversity of the word: why did the Israeli Foreign Ministry start harassing the Izvestia journalist

The authorities of the Jewish state obstruct Nikita Kulyukhin's work after an inconvenient question to a local politician

On March 16, it was reported that the Israeli Foreign Ministry had banned Kulukhin from attending the weekly press conferences of Foreign Minister Gideon Saar. This happened after a correspondent asked on March 4 why the Israeli side did not condemn the glorification in Ukraine of accomplices of nationalists during the Holocaust, including their leader Stepan Bandera, responsible for the deaths of many Jews. Saar stated that he had not known about this before the question was asked, as well as about the tendency to rename streets of Ukrainian cities in their honor.

After that, on March 18, it became known that the Izvestia journalist was not allowed to attend a briefing for the foreign press, despite the statement by the official representative of the Israeli cabinet, David Menser, that in his country "no one forbids journalists to ask questions." The 9th Russian-language channel admits that the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs not to allow Kulyukhin at the press conference could be due to external pressure.