Nor does it tend to produce the sort of shameless propaganda put out by RT.

Granted, the RT ban was also wrong.

@Cerberus LOL

@alphabet I do believe it has produced some terrible stuff?

@Cerberus It's not nearly as bad as RT, which might as well be an arm of the Russian government.

That's not to say it's unbiased or that it has a particularly stellar history, of course.

As you can see from Wikipedia's list.

But bias in itself is not sufficient cause to ban a news outlet; the American media can be pretty heavily biased also.

More relevant is the fact that Qatar is not a participant in this war, and that Al Jazeera is not just a Qatari government mouthpiece.

But I bet Al Jazeera is pretty anti-Israel.

Pro-Arabic.

Their coverage of the actions of the Israeli government is very negative. But governments should not ban news outlets for criticizing them.

That is self-evident.

I'm just saying Al Jazeera is paid for and controlled by the Qatari government, so it is no ordinary, private news organisation.

Should it be banned? I would be inclined to say no.

Am I surprised that Israel has banned it? No.