Voices critical of the slaughter of Palestinians are being censored, fired & silenced.
So why do writers like @Bariweiss, who have made a career out of advocating for free speech, care so little when the victims of cancel culture speak up on behalf of the Palestinians?
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So why do writers like @Bariweiss, who have made a career out of advocating for free speech, care so little when the victims of cancel culture speak up on behalf of the Palestinians?
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MSNBC quietly silences its top experts on Israel - Palestine exactly when their expertise was needed most: semafor.com
Biologist Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of the prominent open access journal eLife, has lost his job for publicly endorsing a satirical article that criticized people dying in Gaza for not condemning the recent attacks on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas.
Maha Dakhil, who represents Tom Cruise, Natalie Portman & Madonna, has been pushed out of her agency’s internal board & leadership duties as co-head of the motion pictures department as a result of speaking out against the slaughter of the Palestinians.
A leading US Jewish group forced the cancellation of a major Palestinian campaign organisation’s national conference by alleging it was a front for Hamas, which killed more than 1,400 Israelis and abducted about 200 people in its attack from Gaza. source: theguardian.com
The Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce has declared a “victory” after pressuring Hilton hotels into cancelling the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights event in Houston later this month at which the congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was to be the main speaker. theguardian.com
Writer @NathanThrall explained that sds for his book, "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA" were pulled from @NPR & the @BBC. "There's an atmosphere that is wholly intolerant of any expression of sympathy for Palestinians under occupation."
Top Palestinian media personalities had CNN appearances cancelled after describing what they planned to say: x.com
Viet Thanh Nguyen was supposed to speak at 92NY.
However, the talk was abruptly called off, apparently because of an open letter Nguyen had signed about the “violence and destruction in Palestine,” & b/c of his past support for the @BDSmovement campaign. nytimes.com
However, the talk was abruptly called off, apparently because of an open letter Nguyen had signed about the “violence and destruction in Palestine,” & b/c of his past support for the @BDSmovement campaign. nytimes.com
@bariweiss pretended to care about free speech.
But I've just gone thru every issue of her substack, "The Free Press," since Oct, 7. Virtually no mention of this censorship.
For Bari, censorship is apparently ok if it's people you disagree w that are being silenced.
But I've just gone thru every issue of her substack, "The Free Press," since Oct, 7. Virtually no mention of this censorship.
For Bari, censorship is apparently ok if it's people you disagree w that are being silenced.
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@bariweiss A scholar vocal about the atrocities committed against the Palestinians is told they'd best not share their political opinions: x.com
More attempts to silence people speaking out against the slaughter of thousands of Palestinians:
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Here is the case of a lecturer at the University of Essex who was terminated for speaking out against the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza:
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