Gladwyn d’SouzaJul 12, 2024

CyberWell is one of many agenda-driven nonprofits now censoring social media discourse, including benign or true information, under the cover of fighting hate and misinformation. The pharmaceutical industry, for instance, funded a nonprofit that worked to censor tweets critical of pandemic-related policies. The U.S. government funds several think tanks that work to moderate social media content critical of NATO’s policies impacting Ukraine.

#KillingTheFirstAmendment

https://open.substack.com/pub/leefang/p/pro-israel-group-censoring-social?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intelligence Officers

CyberWell has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct in the Gaza war by claiming such speech is tantamount to Holocaust denial.

Lee Fang
Gladwyn d’SouzaMay 29, 2024

One of the redemptive aspects of the current horrible moment is that a lot of the dirt is finally coming out. It was, for example, always assumed, but couldn’t be proven, that a class of Jewish supremacist billionaires acting at Israel’s behest were exerting financial pressures on academia. The machinations of the Ackmans, Krafts, Sternlichts et al. have now been exposed.

#KillingTheFirstAmendment #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

https://open.substack.com/pub/normanfinkelstein/p/conspiracies-do-happen?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

CONSPIRACIES DO HAPPEN

The British Guardian reported today that Israeli secret services were blackmailing former ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. Already four years ago I wrote a full book documenting Bensouda’s disgraceful record of whitewashing Israel. It was perfectly obvious at the time that extra-legal pressures were being exerted on Bensouda. Indeed, I stated in the very last sentence of my book that Israel was bringing “to bear every squalid and sordid instrument in its arsenal” against the ICC. It was also obvious that extra-legal pressures were exerted on Richard Goldstone to recant his milestone report on Israeli crimes in Gaza, even as “Goldstone’s secret will perhaps never be revealed” (from my book Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom). It is also my considered opinion that ICC Judge Peter Kovacs was subject to extra-legal pressures or enticements and current ICJ Vice-President Julia Sebutinde has been subject to extra-legal pressures or enticements by Israel. At the very least, Israel has assisted their whitewashing endeavors. (The flagrant, shameful and shameless lie that former ICJ president Joan Donaghue uttered on BBC last month—she purported that the ICJ did not find that Israel was “plausibly” committing genocide in Gaza--was morally debased but almost certainly traced back to careerism and opportunism, not Israeli dirty tricks.) One of the redemptive aspects of the current horrible moment is that a lot of the dirt is finally coming out. It was, for example, always assumed, but couldn’t be proven, that a class of Jewish supremacist billionaires acting at Israel’s behest were exerting financial pressures on academia. The machinations of the Ackmans, Krafts, Sternlichts et al. have now been exposed. If the Harvard Corporation wouldn’t let the 13 anti-genocide students attend graduation, was it not because “he who pays the piper calls the tune”?

Norman Finkelstein
Gladwyn d’SouzaMay 1, 2024

Making the orange menace defacto academic policy: Instead of first turning to dialogue and debate – the very skills and values universities should promote – school administrators have turned to police, extreme discipline, and complying with a mainstream consensus that seems more interested in suppressing criticism of Israeli and American policy than protecting students- Viet Thanh Nguyen

#KillingTheFirstAmendment

https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/a-student-rebellion-against-the-hypocrisy?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

"A Student Rebellion Against the Hypocrisy of Their Elders" - USC Prof & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen

The students protesting against Israel's genocidal war in Gaza are on the right side of history, as other student movements were in the past.

Zeteo
Show threadGladwyn d’SouzaApr 21, 2024

SARAH IHMOUD: yet another example of Israel attacking Palestinians wherever they are, whoever they are. It underscores that no Palestinian is safe under Israel’s racist apartheid rule, not even someone like Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who is both an Israeli and American citizen and a world-renowned and respected feminist scholar. And it’s important to note, as well, that Israel routinely holds Palestinians captive and imprisons them without trial, without due process and under inhumane conditions, including children, and that this is just both unjust and illegal. And this is an attack on her as both a Palestinian and a scholar who is rightfully speaking out against Israel’s well-documented human rights abuses and ongoing genocide.

#KillingTheFirstAmendment

Gladwyn d’SouzaApr 21, 2024

The genocidal destopia at the heart of free inquiry in the west.

NADERA SHALHOUB-KEVORKIAN: The question remains whether what is teachable, what is what should be written, what is publishable, what is what we can speak as scholars that are studying state criminality, as opposing to what is going on, as opposing to what the state is doing, is not accepted, so they throw us out of the university.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/19/shalhoub_kevorkian

#KillingTheFirstAmendment #PublishingIsNotACrime

“No Palestinian Is Safe”: Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Arrested in Jerusalem

Israeli police arrested the internationally renowned feminist Palestinian academic Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian at her home in Jerusalem on Thursday on charges of incitement to violence. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who holds both Israeli and U.S. citizenship, was suspended by Hebrew University last month after saying in an interview Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, though the university later reinstated her. We speak with anthropologist Sarah Ihmoud, who describes Shalhoub-Kevorkian as a mentor and inspiration to her and many others. “We hold the Hebrew University of Jerusalem responsible for the arrest and detention because of its persistent and public repression of her academic freedom, which led directly to yesterday’s arrest,” says Ihmoud, who teaches at College of the Holy Cross and is co-founder of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. “We see this as yet another example of Israel attacking Palestinians wherever they are, whoever they are. It underscores that no Palestinian is safe under Israel’s racist apartheid rule.”

Democracy Now!
Gladwyn d’SouzaApr 16, 2024

The premise of not tolerating “resistance to genocide” shows the Stalinist ossification of the western academy where any deviation from a narrow regressive orthodoxy is regarded as heresy for censure and disbarment.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-15/usc-valedictorian-asna-tabassum

#KillingTheFirstAmendment

USC bans pro-Palestinian valedictorian from speaking at graduation

The University of Southern California cited safety reasons Monday in keeping its pro-Palestinian valedictorian from speaking onstage at her graduation ceremony.

Los Angeles Times
Show threadGladwyn d’SouzaFeb 20, 2024

Chris Hedges, for The Chris Hedges Report on Substack- The five permanent members of the security council regularly violate an individuals rights with impunity, their own laws be damned: The British courts, from the inception, have made the case notoriously difficult to cover, severely limiting seats in the courtroom, providing video links that have been faulty, and in the case of the hearing this week, prohibiting anyone outside of England and Wales, including journalists who had previously covered the hearings, from accessing a link to what are supposed to be public proceedings.

#TranslatingGaza #KillingTheFirstAmendment

Show threadGladwyn d’SouzaFeb 7, 2024

Ricky for Council Estate Media on Substack-
David Miller’s victory is a victory for every person who is trying to do the right thing and stop this genocide. It’s also a victory for every person who is trying to help the public understand the driving force behind the genocide is an ideology that tells Zionists they have a right to build an ethnostate on someone else’s land, treat the native population as less than human, and kill them while taking more of their land with a sense of entitlement that is so out of proportion, they think land-grabbing counts as self-defence and anyone who disagrees is racist. It is perverse and deeply disturbing that this warped ideology has been adopted by so many of our politicians.

#LesserOfTwoEvilsHasLeadToUNspeakableEvilOfGenocide
#LegacyMediaMisInformationDoesNotSeeFascism
#AntiSemitismChargesAreHolocaustDenial
#AntiPalestinianMcCartyIsm #KillingTheFirstAmendment #ExceptForPalestine #Gaza

Gladwyn d’SouzaFeb 6, 2024

UK Prof. Miller successfully claimed discrimination based on his philosophical belief that Zionism is inherently racist, imperialist, and colonial, a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, alongside a finding of unfair dismissal. This judgment establishes for the first time ever that anti-Zionist beliefs are protected in the workplace.

#Liberation #Gaza #WestIsAidingAndAbettingAGenocide #GenocideJoeKnows #AntiPalestinianMcCartyIsm #KillingTheFirstAmendment #ExceptForPalestine #AxisOfEpsteinDershowitzAltman #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

https://www.rllaw.co.uk/rahman-lowe-secures-landmark-victory-in-employment-case-for-professor-david-miller-against-bristol-university/

Rahman Lowe Secures Landmark Victory in Employment Case for Professor David Miller Against Bristol University

Rahman Lowe Secures Landmark Victory in Employment Law Case for Professor Miller

Rahman Lowe Solicitors
Gladwyn d’SouzaFeb 3, 2024

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/gaza-has-revived-colonial-tactics-silencing-dissent

The second is an indirect assault on language, amidst heightened attempts to silence and punish Palestinians and pro-Palestinians, including censorship on digital platforms. Despite global calls for a ceasefire and an end to Israeli occupation, censorship and oppression persist.
Present-day silencing of the Palestinian struggle is a form of language policing, an extension of colonial tactics to govern the colonised during their fight for liberation. Recognising these connections underscores language's significance when discussing the oppressor-oppressed relationship, highlighting the importance of resisting language policing in calls for #liberation.
#Gaza #WestIsAidingAndAbettingAGenocide #GenocideJoeKnows #AntiPalestinianMcCartyIsm #KillingTheFirstAmendment #ExceptForPalestine #AxisOfEpsteinDershowitzAltman #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

Gaza has revived colonial tactics of silencing dissent

Whether its censorship, intimidation or distortion, resisting language policing is key for liberation in Palestine and beyond, writes Lujain Al-Meligy.

The New Arab