TikTok’s US sale places the platform under the control of investors with deep pro-Israel political ties, raising concerns over influence, speech, and content moderation.
Who is the Pro-Israel Clique behind TikTok’s US Takeover?
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How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
Jake Tapper is worried about efforts to ‘infringe’ on free speech, except when the speech is about Palestine
Jake Tapper and other mainstream U.S. media figures will wax poetic about free speech, but they ignore when advocates for Palestine are targeted, or even jailed, for speaking out.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Attorney on Breaking Developments in Detained Columbia Graduate’s Case
The judge rebuked the Trump administration Wednesday, and Khalil expanded his civil suit against Columbia University to name Attorney General Pam Bondi, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and others.
The Case Against Mahmoud Khalil: How The Israel Lobby Fueled a Campus Crackdown
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist involved in organizing at Columbia University, is the result of more than a year of pro-Israeli think-tank propaganda and lobbying efforts to tie the students to Hamas and erode free speech protections in the United States.
Spotify: Wrapped, Robbed, and Censored
David Rovics recounts being censored on the world’s largest music streaming service… “My most popular new album, the one that sought to document the first three months of Israel’s ongoing Palestinian holocaust, is gone – erased, disappeared, unmentioned in end-of-the-year statistical wrap-ups as if it never existed.”
Free speech crises loom with crackdown on Israel criticism
The incoming Trump team appears poised to take a hardline and Congress isn’t far behind. And it’s just not on college campuses.
Biden’s war on Gaza is now a war on truth and the right to protest
The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed
New evidence confirms Israel deliberately targeted Shireen Abu Akleh
Yet another significant report points to Israeli guilt in the death of Shireen Abu Akleh: new forensic analysis shows she was “deliberately and repeatedly targeted” by an Israeli military sniper taking “precise and careful aim.” Palestinians filing at the ICC state that her assassination was in the context of wider “systematic targeting” of Palestinian journalists by Israeli occupation forces.
BREAKING: “Palestinian Gandhi” Issa Amro convicted in Israel
The Israeli military court announced today its guilty verdict against Palestinian Issa Amro, in what human rights advocates have called a “campaign of persecution” against a nonviolent community organizer.