While reporting for The Grayzone in Israel-Palestine this October, Jeremy Loffredo was arbitrarily arrested by the Israeli military, then accused by Israel’s police of “supporting the enemy during wartime” - a crime that carries a maximum penalty of death or life in prison. He spent the next three days in solitary confinement in an Israeli jail, and subjected to several extended interrogations about the bogus allegations before being deported.
During this period, his laptop, phone, external hard drive, and wallet were seized and searched by Israeli police. We now have reason to believe his devices were implanted with the malicious Pegasus system or other Israeli spyware.
Because Jeremy was far from the only US reporter to report the locations of the missile strikes, his persecution was obviously political – vengeance for the explosive reports he previously produced from the ground in Israel-Palestine, and for his affiliation with The Grayzone.
Now that Jeremy is back home in New York, he is speaking out about Israel’s shocking war on journalism, and working on important new projects. That's why we’re writing you to ask for your support.
Jeremy has not only produced hard-hitting reporting from occupied Palestine, where he embedded himself with genocidal settlers and exposed their campaign to block humanitarian aid to Gaza, but from East Palestine, Ohio, where he gave voice to locals who felt abandoned after a massive chemical spill. He has visited Lahaina, Hawaii, where a massive fire destroyed a community withstanding decades of colonialism and gentrification. And his reporting from inside Russian centers for youth evacuated from the Donbas exposed the reality of the US proxy war in Ukraine.
In his next documentary project, Jeremy takes his camera to the poorest and most neglected congressional district in the country, a Democratic stronghold in the South Bronx, where its AIPAC-sponsored representative, Ritchie Torres, spends more time attending to the interests of Israel - the country whose lobby has paid for his career - than to his poor and working class constituents.
Jeremy needs your support for important future projects like these, but he also needs to replace the devices which were stolen and compromised by Israeli police.
In supporting Jeremy’s work, you are building the future of independent antiwar journalism, and sustaining The Grayzone as a home for the work of fearless young journalists like him.
For more:
Israel jails Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo, releases him pending investigation - Oct 11, 2024
Jeremy Loffredo on being jailed by Israel for journalism - Oct 25, 2024
On the ground investigating Iran's strikes on Israel - Oct 5, 2024
More of Jeremy's work:
Israel's War On Journalism: A Censorship Regime - Oct 27, 2024
Freed by Hamas from Israel's jails - The Grayzone reports - Jul 15, 2024
Armenian Christians under siege by Israel - Apr 10, 2024
Journalist infiltrates Israel's grassroots pro-genocide protest - Mar 26, 2024
'Kill them all': inside the Israeli blockade on Gaza aid - Mar 21, 2024
Antiwar Israelis face jail, terrifying repression for speaking out - Jan 24, 2024
Life in Jerusalem under Israel's military dictatorship - Jan 16, 2024
The West Bank after Oct 7: repression and ethnic cleansing - Dec 12, 2023
Pro-Israel demonstrators call for genocide in New York City - Oct 10, 2023
Fan the flames: Lahaina on fire - Sep 5, 2023
Macron’s democracy: repression and austerity - May 11, 2023
French high schoolers vs. 'dictator' Macron - May 2, 2023
Live from Paris - Jeremy Loffredo at anti-Macron protests - Apr 17, 2023
Inside a Russian youth camp condemned by the ICC - Mar 31, 2023
Poison and private police: Norfolk Southern destroys East Palestine - Feb 28, 2023
