Being a bestselling novelist has never stopped Abulhawa from speaking out against the oppression of her people. “Only Zionism comes wrapped in some inherited claim to the world’s care and tenderness,” she said. “I refuse that. I reject it outright.”
Meta frequently moderates Palestinian content through its “Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy”. The policy was repeatedly applied to content published by journalists, media organisations, civil society actors, activists, and ordinary users
Among the most shocking cases is that of Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman and the last person still held in US federal detention in connection with protests at Columbia University.
The potential negative implications are enormous and will impact not-for-profit organizations, media networks, and even individuals who report honestly on Palestine.
The past two years have seen a catastrophic failure by Western journalists to report properly what amounts to an undoubted genocide in Gaza.
In a 2015 email, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said ‘We have to fight the battle’ before kids get to college. She might get her wish now.
The film uses iconic news images to highlight the importance of bringing independent journalism to Gaza amidst international law violations.
The BBC ignored an internal request to correct reporting that smeared a high-profile Palestinian journalist killed by Israel as a Hamas operative, in what a whistleblower has described as a “grave editorial breach”.
Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief accuses Western journalists of ‘capitulating to the Israeli narrative’.
A previously unreported spreadsheet of 2,152 international legal requests with the State of Israel was hidden within last year’s “Anonymous for Justice” leaks; and a 2020 CBS news report details how Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel