Melissa Barrera dropped from ‘Scream VII’ after pro-Palestinian posts https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2023-11-21/melissa-barrera-dropped-from-scream-vii

#ExceptForPalestine- #McCartyism in the #NewJimCrow: “At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude.”

#criminalizingdissent #ShireenAbuAklehMoment

Melissa Barrera dropped from Scream VII after pro-Palestinian posts on social media

Deadline cites sources confirming her removal was “due to the reposts in her Instagram stories which have been perceived as anti-Semitic.”

Los Angeles Times

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/21/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel/

Democratic #McCartyism- when you are not killing #journalists and bombing their families and subsequent funerals you censor peer reviewed and edited speech: deliberate decision to censor your voice out of fear of backlash would be contrary to the values of academic freedom and uplifting marginalized voices…

#ShreenAbuAklehMoment #BDS

Harvard Law Review Editors Vote to Kill Article About Genocide in Gaza

The Harvard Law Review censored a piece by a Palestinian scholar on applying a genocide framework to Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

The Intercept
#McCartyism: As my colleague Harold Meyerson noted last week, these kind of strikes are largely illegal in the United States thanks to the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act (though the exact legal details, as usual in the American context, are hideously complicated). Carry out a sympathy strike in the States and you might be fired, see your union de-certified, or even be sued for damages -Ryan Cooper for TAP
#LaborCoercion #CorprateTheocracy