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Save the Children: Gaza’s children suffer “complete psychological destruction” – Day 158

Kathryn Shihadah March 13, 2024 conditional military aid, free speech, gaza sea corridor, humanitarian aid, mental health gaza, people with disabilities, save the children, unrwa, US senate

Save the Children report on Gaza youth; more aid-seekers killed; food reaches northern Gaza at last; sea corridor won’t make much of a splash; assassination of bike rider in Gaza; 5,000 people in Gaza have acquired disabilities over the past 5 months; at least 5 killed in West Bank; 8 US senators send letter to Biden, demand an ultimatum: expand aid to Gaza or lose US aid; advocacy for Palestinian rights faces silencing at UPenn & Columbia…

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Anti-Defamation League (ADL) again sides with human rights abusers over free speech on campus

[email protected] September 28, 2023 ADL, Anti-Defamation League, free speech, human rights abuse, zionism

The ADL wants to see the continuation of Israeli abuse of Palestinian human rights – and the repression of free speech on American campuses – rather than cause discomfort among Jewish students.

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Shireen Abu Akleh’s death exposes Israel for what it is – a murderous regime

[email protected] May 18, 2022 apartheid, attacks on journalists, excessive force, free speech, police brutality, Shireen Abu Akleh

A comprehensive report on Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder, and why it played out the way it did. Her story, like that of the Palestinian people, is one of courage in the face of injustice. In mourning her murder, let us acknowledge the facts of Palestinian life – and death.

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Texas: home of the latest fight for the right to boycott Israel

[email protected] November 5, 2021 BDS, boycott, first amendment, free speech, Rasmy Hassouna, Supreme Court

This Palestinian American is fighting a Texas law that requires him to renounce his right to boycott Israel – the country that turned his family into refugees 73 years ago and continues to oppress them to this day. Israel loyalists have inserted these anti-boycott laws in 30 states around the country, despite the fact that the right to boycott has long been an American principle used by people of diverse political backgrounds.

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HRW: Facebook, Instagram restrictions facilitate Israel’s abuses of Palestinians

[email protected] October 12, 2021 apartheid, Facebook, first amendment, free speech, hrw, Human Rights Watch, instagram, social media

Facebook’s faulty content moderation, plus Israel’s “requests” to the social media company to take down online content, results in unfair restriction on free speech about Israeli human rights violations against Palestinians. HRW calls for widespread investigation.

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Nike will no longer do business in Israel, starting in 2022

[email protected] October 7, 2021 BDS, boycott, free speech, nike

While Nike does not specifically call the move a “boycott,” the sportswear company indicates that doing business in Israel “no longer match[es] the company’s policy and goals.”

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At Risk in Israel’s Backlash Against Ben and Jerry’s? The Right to Protest.

[email protected] August 14, 2021 BDS, Ben & Jerry's, boycott, boycott divest sanction, constitutional rights, free speech

Much has been written about Israel’s relentless offensive against the ice cream company. But less has been said about the consequences for Americans’ right to protest if our constitutional right to boycott is gutted per Israel’s demands…

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Pro-Israel students pressure Butler U to cancel an event featuring Angela Davis

[email protected] April 1, 2021 Angela Davis, antisemitism, butler university, free speech

Students at Butler University say an event featuring Angela Davis was abruptly canceled by the school following pressure from Zionist students. This is not the first time Ms. Davis has been snubbed because of her advocacy for Palestinian rights.

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Repression of speech and scholarship on Palestine needs to end

[email protected] October 2, 2020 Censorship, David Spiro, free speech, University of Toronto, Valentina Azarov

More than a thousand academics and lawyers have signed an open letter calling on academic and government institutions around the world to cease subjecting those defending justice for Palestinians to censorship and penalties… A Canadian University rescinded a job offer after an Israel partisan complained… in the U.S. there have been 1,494 incidents… in France students have been jailed…

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Israel’s Netanyahu boasts of destroying US 1st Amendment & free speech

[email protected] February 14, 2020 AIPAC, BDS, Binyamin Netanyahu, boycott divest sanction, free speech, gilad erdan, Netanyahu

Anti-boycott laws on behalf of Israel do not only punish companies, they are the most dangerous assault on free speech in the United States since the McCarthy era. Netanyahu takes credit for them…

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