The “little town of Bethlehem” that we sing about at this time of year is far different from what many of us imagine it to be.
Unholy days and nights in Bethlehem
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As Twitter censorship is revealed, will Palestine remain canceled?
Twitter’s secret blacklists are being revealed in the new Twitter Files releases. Will the project also investigate Twitter’s suppression of Palestinian content? Twitter’s former chief censor Yoel Roth has tweeted against criticism of Israel. And one of the journalists investigating Twitter’s censorship, Bari Weiss, has been called a “Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions,” – and says she “happily plead[s] guilty as charged.” Weiss has a history of working to cancel people and suppress negative facts about Israel…
2 more deaths: Israeli sniper shoots girl, 16, in head; 59-yr-old dies from wounds
An Israeli sniper shot a Palestinian teenage girl in the head during a raid of a Palestinian city; a Palestinian man died of injuries suffered in Gaza last August when Israel bombed his neighborhood.
Social media’s history of suppressing Palestine content
Social media platforms Twitter, Facebook & Instagram have repressed Palestinian voices for years, often at the direction of the Israeli government…
Invading Israeli forces assassinate 5 more Palestinians in two days, including 16-yr-old
Israeli attacks continue against Palestinians, some of whom are exercising their internationally recognized right to resist occupation. Others are ‘collateral damage.’
Israel’s latest killing spree – minor news to US media
American mainstream media have averted their gaze (again) from Palestinian suffering. Eleven Palestinian deaths in seven days is apparently not news.
Social media accused of censoring Palestinian content
In 2021 the Columbia Journalism Review reported that many analysts believed that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram were deliberately censoring Palestinian content…
UN approves resolution to commemorate 75th Nakba anniversary
The UN overwhelmingly supports a 75th anniversary commemoration of the Nakba, the catastrophe in which Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homeland for the creation of Israel.
Adidas gives ADL, known for bigotry, $1 million for ‘anti-bigotry’ project
Adidas just pledged over $1 million to the ADL for the organization to create “a new anti-bigotry curriculum for student athletes,” despite the ADL’s history of support for discrimination and human rights violations. Adidas previously partnered with Israel, and was pressured to walk away over Israel’s systemic human rights abuses. It’s time for Adidas to walk away again…
Two more Palestinians die after being shot by Israeli soldiers
Mohammad Hisham Abu Keshik, 22, died from being shot by Israeli soldiers yesterday. Mohammad Ahmad Hasan Herzallah, 30, died from wounds suffered in July. Israeli soldiers have killed over 200 Palestinians since the beginning of 2022, 57 of them children. Palestinian resistance fighters have killed 26 Israelis, 1 of them a child