Editor’s Note: This opinion piece is part of a platform swap between Good Faith Media and Baptist News Global, which today published an opinion piece by Craig Nash. 

One of the pillars of modern democracies is a free press. You cannot have a true democracy without impartial news outlets that not only aren’t controlled by the state but also are free to criticize the government.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who already stands on the cusp of being indicted in a global court as a war criminal, recently closed the blinds on Israel as a democratic government by banning the international news service Al Jazeera. Democracies do not ban news outlets. Dictators do.

Netanyahu is a tyrannical dictator driven by vengeance who needs to be removed from office immediately. To everyone worried about the growth of antisemitism in the present moment, please understand your words are incomplete unless you also denounce Israel’s leader, who is “antisemitic” in another sense of the word. The 35,000 civilians he has slaughtered also are semitic people. Just not his kind of semitic people.

On May 5, Netanyahu