[Stooky Bill]

Yes there is a difference between what happened to RT and what has just happened to Al Jazeera.

RT lost a lot of it's distribution due to international sanctions which meant that a lot of western companies weren't able to do business with them. This had the knock on effect that Ofcom and other regulators weren't able to license them either. As far as I know they aren't banned from having reporters in the UK or anywhere else. Though of course I would have thought it's tricky to do so.

Al Jazeera is essentially a third party reporting in a conflict, they're being expelled from the area and the channels are having their carriage removed. Although of course it's not entirely a third party because of Qatars involvement in the situation. However AJ has always had independence from the Qatari Royal Family who fund it.

They are different situations, one is a removal of support for a country that invaded another. The other is removal of news access by a country that is (I'll be careful!) at war with a neighbouring territory.

The equivalent would be Russia banned the BBC from the country, which they have in respect of distributing their channels and website, but they haven't banned anyone from reporting from Russia.

It's the reporting restriction that's the issue really, I don't know how much AJ was watched in Israel, AFAIK they don't have a version in Hebrew. But it's very difficult in a country so small to totally ban a channel like that when neighbouring ones haven't, and there are other external news sources for the Israelis, I'm not aware of any other broadcasts that have been restricted