Less than a week after Israeli forces intercepted a global flotilla attempting to deliver aid to Gaza and detained hundreds of participants, a second contingent of international activists, medical workers and journalists were captured Wednesday — including a California-based journalist reporting on the barriers to covering the ongoing war.

Emily Wilder, a Stanford University graduate and former reporter for Santa Rosa’s Press Democrat , had joined the second flotilla as a reporter for Jewish Currents , a left-leaning magazine based in New York. Israel deported her to Istanbul on Friday alongside many others from the flotilla, according to Jewish Currents , and U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez said she “is on her way home . ”

One of Wilder’s goals was to shed light on the struggle jo

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