Stand up for Lisa Goldman

Canadian-Israeli blogger and journalist Lisa Goldman is facing a four-year prison sentence for traveling to Lebanon without obtaining authorization from Israel’s Interior Ministry — a legal requirement which has not been enforced in recent memory.

Though Lisa has been a great friend to Israel in her reportage, and despite having been commended by the Prime Minister’s Office for her report on Channel 10 News from Lebanon, she has nonetheless inexplicably become the target of a police crackdown on journalists traveling to “enemy territory.”

Lisa suspects that the head of the Government Press Office, Daniel Seaman, is pursuing a vendetta against her for once filing a complaint against him for unprofessional conduct.

Read more about her case in Jewcy and the Jerusalem Post, as well as Lisa’s own remarks in Haaretz.

Show your support for Lisa and her colleagues by contacting the Israeli authorities. Be polite, but ask why the police couldn’t have first issued Lisa a friendly reminder informing her that, in the future, she must obtain a permit to travel to hostile countries. Also ask why, with all the real threats Israel is facing, that the police are wasting precious time and resources pursuing the nation’s friends in the media.

Foreign Affairs
Mark Regev, Spokesman
Office: 02-5303555
Office 2: 02-5303343
Fax: 02-5303408

Government Press Office: Jerusalem
Daniel Seaman, Director
Office: 02-5007502
Fax: 02-6257886
Email: gpo@pmo.gov.il

Prime Minister’s Office
Miri Eisin, Foreign Press Adviser
Office: 02-670-5555
Direct: 02-670-5354
Fax: 02-670-5602

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