Shouldn’t Elon Musk’s “free speech absolutism” apply to on-the-ground reports of Israeli crimes?
- Twitter Suspends Palestine Online Account (Middle East Monitor)
Twenty-one “detainees have been charged with security-related offenses that are punishable by death” …
… but propaganda that thousands of protestors will be executed is false:
As if to demonstrate the danger, Palestinians will not be allowed to discuss the effects of conflating criticism of Israel with antiSemitism:
- UK University Excludes Palestinian Staff, Palestine Scholars from IHRA Discussion (Palestine Chronicle)
Developed countries have imposed an “externality” on poor countries through CO2 emissions, but Pakistan’s “solution” of reparations to corrupt governments is problematical:
“The law … prohibits public school teachers, police officers, government lawyers and a host of other civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work”:
The prize jury in Germany “withdrew a Lifetime Achievement Award from renowned British playwright Caryl Churchill over her support for Palestinian rights”:
- Leading Lights of British Theatre Accuse European Drama Prize of Modern-day McCarthyism (Artists for Palestine UK)
Symbolic, yet unprecedented, a “pressure campaign from Democratic members of Congress pushing a Democratic administration to take a firm stance against Israel”:
Israeli soldier / settler violence continues:
- Israeli Raids in the West Bank Push Palestinians to Brink Again (The Intercept)
- Jewish Settlers Assault Two Brothers in Hebron (Palestine Chronicle)
Most experts doubt Iran has plans to build a bomb but “[f]ew doubt that Iran would reduce its breakout time … to mere weeks … if the deal were not restored”:
- The Post-Iran-Nuclear-Deal World Won’t Be Pretty (Foreign Policy)
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