Do you have any sources to back up that secular Israeli society is banning Jewish TV channels?
Also given that all those complaining about the channel here are religious Jews with the exception of Rival who is a religious Noahide anyway and not one atheist or agnostic Jew complaining about it here do you genuinely think that the opposition to the TV channel in question is anything other than religiously motivated?
Are you kidding? I can show secular Israeli society doing way more than banning Torah based content on TV. How good is your Hebrew?
Until then, let’s first understand the “real” reasons that the godTV license was
revoked; not banned. My emphasis added in important parts of the article originally posted by Harel.
"The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council launched an investigation to determine if GOD TV had misrepresented its content when it applied for a license.
Council chairman Asher Bitton said on Sunday that following the probe and a hearing, he had informed Hot that Shelanu broadcasts must be removed within seven days.
"The channel is aimed at Jews with Christian content, in contrast to the original broadcast request, which stated it was designated for Christians," Bitton said in a council statement.
It said that a Christian channel for Jews would not be automatically disqualified in the future, but that it would have to seek the council's approval, which Shelanu had not done.
HOT could file a new request for Shelanu that would include "a truthful and detailed" characterization of the channel, the statement added."
So, in short they got shut down because they did not follow secular Israeli “law” for applying for a license. Their license was "legally" revoked using same said secular laws.
So, now that we have gotten the facts out there – all free countries have laws and if someone doesn’t follow the law, including misrepresenting themselves then it is within most legislations to revoke a license. HOT is a secular channel and if they want they make a new request for godTV with the correct information.
As the below article shows, they wouldn't have had their license revoked if they had been clear from the start what their channel was about and had followed the Israeli law; which so happens to be secular.
לא מסתירים כוונות: ערוץ מיסיון נוצרי ב-HOT