https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/29/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-censorship.html
Russia article is about a law passed that made it illegal to discredit the Russian military and lead to thousands of arrests and stamping out protests. It was a months long investigative report
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/world/middleeast/al-jazeera-west-bank-raid.html
Israel article is a news push from Reuters. However the Reuters article, and the rest of the media that used the piece included the word “raid” in the title. The original Reuters article also was much longer and included Al Jazeera response…
To be pedantic, one is a simple news message, the other seems to be the headline of a longer article or opinion piece. I bet you can find a simple news message of Russia closing news stations.
If it was a one-off you would be right. But newspapers consistently leave out negatively loaded words for israel while (correctly) using them for Russia.
It’s even more preposterous because israel doesn’t control the West Bank. They are illegally colonizing it and preventing Aljazeera from covering their war-crimes. If this isn’t blatant repression of press freedom I don’t know what is.