Western governments' support for Israel is the biggest threat to free speech in our society today. Civil rights are being stomped out throughout the western world to protect Israeli information interests,
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If you support freedom of speech you now have an ethical obligation to oppose Israel, even if you didn't before.
Western governments' support for Israel is the biggest threat to free speech in our society today. Civil rights are being stomped out throughout the western world to protect Israeli information interests, and speech is being suppressed in support of Israel more aggressively than with any other topic. We're not seeing this level of all-out warfare against free expression on any other frontline — not Russia, not vaccines, not "election security", not on any kind of ideological front. The west's support for Israel is the number one threat to free speech in the west today, and nothing else comes anywhere close.
Trump's latest announcement about "illegal protests" against Israel on university campuses is just the latest escalation in what has been an ongoing assault on all criticism of the Zionist entity. We're seeing journalists and activists persecuted and fired for opposing Israel's genocidal atrocities in Gaza, protests violently shut down by police, new laws shoved through at alarming speed to help target pro-Palestine demonstrators, massive amounts of social media censorship across all major platforms — all while the mainstream press commit extremely egregious journalistic malpractice with obfuscations in their reporting and punditry designed to spin Israel's abuses in a positive light.
Even if you've never cared about Israel before, you should be opposing it if you care about the existence of free speech in your society. Hell, you should be aggressively resisting this war on speech even if you SUPPORT Israel. When civil liberties are being snuffed out one by one with increasing brazenness in defense of a foreign state, then everyone who claims to stand for freedom has an obligation to stand against it.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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