"A #Palestinian-#Australia-n man has been criminally charged for voicing criticisms of #Zionism during a protest against #Israel's #genocide in #Gaza. He could spend months in prison."

Zionism Is Strangling #FreeSpeech In Australia
More: https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/03/09/zionism-is-strangling-free-speech-in-australia/ @palestine

Important! [NYTimes - gifted]: Can the Media’s Right to Pursue the Powerful Survive Trump’s Second Term? By David Enrich, March 3, 2025

New York Times v. Sullivan and other landmark Supreme Court decisions protect the press’s ability to investigate public figures. But a growing right-wing movement seeks to overturn them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/magazine/nyt-sullivan-defamation-press-freedom-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U4.NHIs.U5ZCurO7Aiy6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#pressfreedom #freespeech #investigativejournalism #scotus #attackonspeech

#Pelatine-Israel / Ben-Gurion University condemns Government Censorship Laws while suspending Professor Ben Daniel for criticizing IDF

Ben-Gurion University has illegally suspended Dr. Sebastian Ben Daniel after 18 years of teaching computer science for criticizing #IDF actions in the West Bank. His "crime"? Using the pseudonym "John Brown" on social media to condemn the killing of Palestinian civilians, including a pregnant woman and a 7-year-old child.

The right-wing organization "Im Tirtzu" orchestrated a pressure campaign, collecting 1,000+ student signatures demanding his firing. Shamefully, the university administration caved immediately, bypassing proper procedures and due process.

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has condemned this as "a hasty and illegal suspension" that "represents another step in academia's abandonment of fundamental values of free expression." They note this is part of a broader attack on democratic institutions, with parliament simultaneously advancing legislation to restrict academic freedom.

Prof. Oded Goldreich (who faced similar persecution when ministers tried to block his Israel Prize) defended Ben Daniel: "A university lecturer who is also a journalist and citizen published his opinion on a public forum unrelated to the university. His opinion is based on humanistic moral principles and extensive knowledge, but it's very unacceptable to fascist silencing organizations."

This isn't about "protecting students' feelings" as the university claims. It's about silencing critical voices and establishing a dangerous precedent where right-wing pressure can dictate who can speak and teach.

[…] "Ben Daniel has been serving as a computer science lecturer in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Ben-Gurion University for 18 years. Fourteen years ago, he began publishing criticism of Israel on social media (as well as in 'Haaretz' and other media outlets), alongside investigations on topics such as Military Police investigation files and arms trafficking. About three weeks ago, Ben Daniel referred to IDF activity in a refugee camp near Tulkarm where a Palestinian child was shot, writing, among other things: 'The IDF doesn't shoot at religious terrorists who attack civilians, but does murder a pregnant woman and a 7-year-old child because 'he looked at the ground,' not because of orders but because they were educated to murder Palestinian children.'"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Coverage in Hebrew:

https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/2025-03-07/ty-article/.premium/00000195-6ced-d46d-a3f7-eded22220000 or https://archive.is/2ujuA

https://zoha.org.il/135865/

https://zoha.org.il/130141/

@academicchatter
@israel
@palestine
#AcademicFreedom
#FreeSpeech

#GiftArticle

‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing #Retribution, #Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves

The #silence grows louder every day

Fired #FederalWorkers worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. #University presidents fearing that millions in federal #funding could disappear are holding their fire. Chief execs alarmed by #tariffs that could hurt their businesses are on mute.

#law #FreeSpeech #democracy #USpol #autocracy #authoritarianism #dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-democracy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=8DC43EDF-B11C-44E1-8C72-A910E200F459

Free country, they said…

What is the use of the constitution then?

@palestine
#palestine #usa #freespeech

Columbia University cowards!

Facing Trump’s threats, Columbia investigates students critical of Israel
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-campus-protests-trump-congress-ba0eddec4679d70287202831c52ebed6

#FreeSpeech #ColumbiaUniversity #Cowards #NewYork #USPol #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza

All of #Trump supporters' reasons for supporting Trump are invalidated by his positions on #Israel.
"He puts America first" he puts Israel first.
"He's making peace" he's assisting Israel's mass murder and tyranny.
"He supports free speech" but not speech which criticizes Israel.

#hypocrisy #freespeech #AmericaFirst #USPol #Politics #Palestine #Genocide #Antiwar
@palestine group @israel group

All of #Trump supporters' reasons for supporting Trump are invalidated by his positions on #Israel.
"He puts America first" he puts Israel first.
"He's making peace" he's assisting Israel's mass murder and tyranny.
"He supports free speech" but not speech which criticizes Israel.

#hypocrisy #freespeech #AmericaFirst #USPol #Politics #Palestine #Genocide #Antiwar

This is old but I've only heard of it now … I've not found the outcome yet

https://www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish-council-of-australia-opposes-coalitions-antisemitism-bill-citing-political-agenda-to-stifle-free-speech-on-palestine

"Jewish Council of Australia opposes Coalition’s antisemitism Bill, citing political agenda to stifle free speech on Palestine" https://www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish-council-of-australia-opposes-coalitions-antisemitism-bill-citing-political-agenda-to-stifle-free-speech-on-palestine 27 August 2024

"While we are deeply concerned about the rise of antisemitism in Australia, this Bill is not the answer. The Coalition continues to use Jews as political footballs, using fear to drive a right-wing political agenda. This Bill relies on disputed definitions and conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism, which ultimately undermines our ability to address real instances of hate and discrimination." Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer of the Jewish Council of Australia

cc me on other servers @kirt@mastodon.social @kirt@infosec.exchange

#JewishCouncilOfAustralia #Coalition #antisemitism #AntisemitismBill #FreeSpeech #Palestine #PalestineWillBeFree #IHRAdefinition #auspol2024

Dem Congressman Who Shared “Elon Musk Dick Pic” Hits Back at Trump DOJ

Rep Robert Garcia slammed the department’s dangerous encroachment on #FreedomOfSpeech.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191813/robert-garcia-donald-trump-doj-elon-musk-dick-pic

"Rep #RobertGarcia hit back at threats from the #DOJ and criticized the agency for trying to “silence” lawmakers speaking out about #ElonMusk.

Earlier... Garcia received a letter from the DOJ regarding comments he’d made... opposing Musk’s takeover of the federal #government"

#FreeSpeech #Musk #Trump #News #USA

Vogt am Freitag: Das Recht zu beleidigen - Das Netz ist politisch https://dnip.ch/2025/02/21/vogt-am-freitag-das-recht-zu-beleidigen/ #SocialMedia #Hassrede #HateSpeech #Zensur #censorship #Meinungsfreiheit #FreeSpeech #Journalismus #journalism #Demokratie #democracy #FakeNews #Desinformationen #Desinformation

Unidentified Men Drag Woman from Coeur d’Alene Town Hall as Sheriff Films

A shocking incident unfolded at a Coeur d’Alene town hall Saturday, as unidentified men forcibly removed a woman from the event—and no one seems to know who they were.

📍 What Happened?
During a legislative town hall at Coeur d’Alene High School, Post Falls resident Teresa Borrenpohl was grabbed and dragged out by plainclothes men after heckling lawmakers. Sheriff Bob Norris, who was present, attempted to pull her from her seat before stepping back and signaling to the unidentified men, who took over. As Borrenpohl repeatedly asked who they were, she received no response.

🎥 Captured on Video
Our footage shows Sheriff Norris recording the incident on his phone as the men forcibly removed Borrenpohl. She can be heard shouting, “This man is assaulting me,” while Norris commands, “You, out, now.”

🚨 Who Were These Men?
That remains a mystery. Event organizers, including Kootenai County Republican Central Committee Chair Brent Regan, claim they don’t know who arranged security or which company was used. Even Sheriff Norris denies involvement, despite being present and appearing to direct security toward Borrenpohl.

📢 Why It Matters
🔹 Who authorized these unidentified men to detain a citizen?
🔹 Why did the sheriff film instead of intervening or ensuring proper procedures were followed?
🔹 Why is there no transparency about the security team’s identity?

With no clear accountability, this raises serious concerns about due process and the use of force at public meetings.

📌 Watch the video and decide for yourself. Who were these men, and who gave them the power to remove a citizen from a public forum?

#CoeurDAlene #TownHall #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #SheriffBobNorris #KootenaiCounty #IdahoPolitics #GovernmentTransparency #WhoAreThey #Accountability #BreakingNews

"Martin has already targeted Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer... Martin has also threatened to investigate former special counsel #JackSmith...

It seems that Martin, a defender of Trump’s election fraud #lies and the #Jan6 Capitol riots, wants to use his prosecutorial power to punish anyone who dares to oppose the president or Musk."
https://newrepublic.com/post/191787/trump-doj-threatens-democratic-congressman-garcia-elon-musk-dick-pic

#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Trump #Coup #DOJ #GOP #Corruption #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News #USNews

Trump’s #DOJ Threatens Dem Congressman Who Shared “Elon Musk Dick Pic”

Democratic Representative Robert Garcia is now being investigated by a #Trump attorney.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191787/trump-doj-threatens-democratic-congressman-garcia-elon-musk-dick-pic

"Trump’s Dept of #Justice has sent a threatening letter to Representative Robert Garcia after the #California Democrat mocked #ElonMusk last week.

...Garcia displayed a large picture of #Musk, calling it a “dick pick” and jokingly referring to the #tech mogul as president"

#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #News #USA

Trump’s DC US Attorney Nom Targets House Dem, Expanding Effort To Stifle Trump Admin Criticism
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-dc-us-attorney-nom-targets-house-dem-expanding-effort-to-stifle-trump-admin-criticism

"Acting #WashingtonDC US attorney Ed Martin is escalating his psuedo-investigations of what he describes as purported threats to billionaire #ElonMusk...

targeted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)...

designed to smother #FreedomOfSpeech and criticism of #Musk & the #Trump administration."

#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #Politics #Coup #Corruption #GOP #News #US #USA

#AP is launching its Local Investigative Reporting Program to support #US state and local newsrooms in investigative reporting

https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-creates-local-investigative-reporting-program/

#USA #UnitedStates #America #Journalism #News #Press #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Democracy

#Fascism shows its ugly face in #Canada. He's also apparently been charged with essentially ridiculing and lambasting the police publicly for arresting him.

"Prominent Canadian activist and author arrested for pro-#Palestinians activism"
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prominent-canadian-activist-and-author-arrested-pro-palestinian-activism #YvesEngler #FreeSpeech @palestine

So much for "free-speech absolutist"

#PresidentMusk #ElonTrump #FreeSpeech #Zelensky

Looks like Erik Prince's SCOTUS whispering worked... jfc

The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

By Ian Millhiser Apr 15, 2024,

"The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a #MassProtest in the states of #Louisiana, #Mississippi, and #Texas.

"Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act."

#McKessonVsDoe #BLM #Fascism #SCOTUS #SLAPPs #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #CivilDisobedience #CorruptSCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #ImpeachJusticeThomas #Blackwater #ErikPrince #NoDAPL #Academi #Activism

#FreeSpeech y'all
#AreYouGreatYet

Darauf spendiere ich allen hier anwesenden eine Portion #freespeech #meinungsfreiheit 🎉 🎊🎆

Sky News interview on desperate need for Jewish dissent in a time of war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_isgTt9vAvc&ab_channel=AntonyLoewenstein Antony Loewenstein on #SkyNews

#AntonyLoewenstein #JewishCouncilOfAustralia #antisemitism #AntisemitismBill #FreeSpeech #AustraliaPolitics #Australia #Israel #IsraelWarCrimes #Palestine #PalestineWillBeFree #IHRAdefinition

Und ich dachte #FreeSpeech ist das höchste aller Güter in den USA, egal wie dumm die Aussagen sind. Aber nicht alle sind da gleich scheint es.

Breaking Things Faster Than You Can Read About It
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-things-faster-than-you-can

"Elon Musk, who reliable sources inform us is still not technically the president, wants to see reporters whose coverage he doesn’t like thrown in jail... he posted last night. “They deserve a long prison sentence.”"

#FreeSpeech #FreePress #Journalism #Journalists #News #Media #Press #ElonMusk #Musk #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Coup #Corruption #Politics #US #USA

I'm not sure European countries should be taking lessons on free speech from a regime that bans news organisations from attending White House press conferences simply because they called the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceve3wl21x1o

#Vance #JDVance #FreeSpeech #TurdReich

JD Vance attacks Europe over free speech and the next morning the White House bans Associate Press indefinitely from Oval Office 🤔 #freespeech #ap #press #MSC2025

#Trump #Repression #FreeSpeech #Palestine

Important breakdown of Trump's executive orders attacking pro-Palestinian and left-wing speech from Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/explainer-breaking-down-trumps-executive-order-targeting-palestine-activists/

It's a shame @RememberUsAlways, isn't it? How comes that only one out of eleven (11!) bots continues to share the #hasbara of yours? The @palestine approach on #FreeSpeech is standing out, even for people like you and worst.
Somehow, it looks like nobody is buying your #fringeright #zioNAZI #hatespeech.

Let me ask if you still support #ashkeNAZI #terror organizations like #Herut #Irgun #Haganah #JDL and @israel #genocide instead of #HumanRights? Or do you condemn #whitesupremacy and #settlercolonialism now?

“NHS doctor punished for speaking out on Israel’s genocide is taking legal action”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk

“The Canary has spoken to a doctor who is crowdfunding a legal challenge after his NHS bosses sought to punish him for speaking out on Israel’s genocide in Gaza”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/02/11/dr-nadeem-crowe/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #NHS #RoyalFree #Hospital #FreeSpeech #Denial #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Crowe #CrowdFund #Tribunal

Still flashed that #JDVance openly stated in #Paris that the US needs #AI for "#FreeSpeech" aka #Nazi - Hate - #Bots.

🤢

f**k yeah, endlich #FreeSpeech für alle - außer die anderen natürlich... #DASistZensur #Fascism #Faschismus #Zensur

Info on the protester at the Super Bowl who held up Palestinian & Sudanese flags: “I don’t get caught up in politics or anything,” he told The Intercept, adding. “What’s going on in these places are inhumane. The civil war in Sudan, the oppression and the war and the tyranny that’s going on in Gaza, is inhumane. And these people are connected with us all as humans, and especially with me in faith.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/10/super-bowl-kendrick-lamar-gaza-sudan-protester/
#superbowl #protest #freespeech #gaza #sudan #humanitarian #crisis

'The effort to suppress criticism of Israel is spreading across the empire'
Whilst the Main Stream Media, claim it is Putin, who is interfering in Western politics, not the Zionists!
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/the-effort-to-suppress-criticism?r=iwr6t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#palestine #freespeech #journalism #mainstreammedia #fakenews #hasbara

Dear Elon, we’re out.

The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.

https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2025/02/07/No-Thanks-Musk-Readers-Elsewhere/

#canada
#media
#journalism
#press
#freespeech
#censorship
#shadowbanned
#tech
#tiktok
#ai
#deepseek

 Less than two weeks after Zurich police arrested Ali Abunimah
for planning to give a lecture on Gaza, Austrian state security escalate repression of Palestine solidarity by raiding and arresting journalist Richard Medhurst. Who or what are they really protecting?
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1887749422123020580
#tiktok
#austria
#media
#journalism
#freespeech
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
...
#antiPalestinianracism

07 Feb 2025, 11:27·

https://zirk.us/@SANKOFAB/113962361845751215

🇦🇹 Less than two weeks after Zurich police arrested Ali Abunimah for planning to give a lecture on Gaza, Austrian state security escalate repression of Palestine solidarity by raiding and arresting journalist Richard Medhurst. Who or what are they really protecting?

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1887749422123020580

#tiktok
#austria
#media
#journalism
#freespeech
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@palestine@lemmygrad.ml
@gazawatch @flawed
@lebanon
@yemen
#antiPalestinianracism

#Democrats fought harder to shut down #protests against #genocide in #Palestine across #colleges suppressing #freespeech than they are fighting the coup #ElonMusk and #Trump doing.

#Politics

Streetart de C215, Paris, France, 2017
#rsf #reporters #SaveTurkishJournalists #journalist #freespeech #freepress #christianguemy #pochoir #urbanart #streetart

Would you use #TikTok if it were owned by the US Government?

Source: Reuters

Headline: Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok

From the article: "WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the creation of a sovereign wealth fund within the next year, saying it could potentially buy the short video app TikTok.

"If created, the sovereign wealth fund could place the U.S. alongside numerous other countries, particularly in the Middle East and Asia, that have launched similar funds as a way to make direct investments with government dollars."

#USPolitics #Project2025 #Oligarchy #Corruption #AbuseOfPower #Journalism #FreePress #FreeSpeech

URL for article because thumbnail is not displaying:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/trump-signs-executive-order-create-sovereign-wealth-fund-2025-02-03/