Journalist for Haaretz took money from Qatargate suspect, and was dismissed from the paper

Chaim Levinson, a journalist for far-left Haaretz, was fired from the paper after it turned out he took bribes from a suspect in the Qatargate scandal:

Prominent Haaretz journalist and commentator Chaim Levinson has been dismissed from his position at the newspaper after it emerged that he had done work for the political consultancy company owned by Yisrael Einhorn, a key suspect in the Qatargate affair.

As reported by Haaretz itself, Levinson, who has long acknowledged being good friends with Einhorn, worked as a ghostwriter for Einhorn’s Perception company from 2019 to 2024, earning some NIS 200,000 ($61,000) for articles he ghostwrote for election campaigns in the Balkan.

In the Qatargate scandal, Einhorn and Perception are believed to have conducted campaigns in Israel and abroad to boost Qatar’s image, in particular in connection to its role as an impartial mediator in hostage negotiations.

This is reprehensible, but it doesn't make Haaretz any less so as a leftist-dominated paper just because they booted him. Their own MO has often risked helping Israel's enemies, not the least being Qatar themselves, and it's not a surprise at this point if a reporter for such an outfit could add insult to injury. This is just one more reason why Haaretz should be boycotted.