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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Amnesty's position on "freedom of expression" in films is curiously one-sided

Today, Amnesty International tweeted this:Amnesty is saying that banning a movie is a violation of freedom of expression. Amnesty is against all forms of censorship - the allegation that the movie promotes homosexuality does not seem to be the issue at all, just freedom of expression.However, when Lebanon bans movies for having Israeli actors or producers, Amnesty has not...

Amnesty claims to support free speech - but it has censored Zionist voices in its own spaces

Amnesty International tweeted on Saturday:Reminder: Everyone has the right to freedom of expressionReally?Because on more than one occasion, Amnesty showed exactly how little it cares about freedom of expression.Amnesty provides various spaces for rent in its London offices. There are no policies listed on its webpage saying who is allowed to rent their space. Yet in 2018,...

The Palestinian Authority has its own law to severely restrict all NGOs - and no one reports about it

Cover of PCHR's "Annual Reprot" [sic]Remember the huge amount of outrage last year when Israel shut down the offices of seven PFLP-linked NGOs? It was condemned by the UN, political leaders and human rights groups. Well, buried in the Palestinian Center of Human Rights 2022 annual report we see something that didn't generate a single headline in the West.This year witnessed...

Roger Waters supports free speech, but only that he agrees with

In April, when the city of Frankfurt planned to cancel their Roger Waters concert for antisemitism, he wrote on Instagram:ROGER WATERS FRANKFURT SHOW UPDATEFRANKFURT COUNCIL WERE LEGALLY REQUIREDTO RESPOND TO ROGER WATERS INTERIM INJUNCTIONBY MIDNIGHT APRIL 14DID THEY?NOBODY KNOWS?WE CAN ONLY GUESS ATWHAT’S GOING ON IN FRANKFURT?ARE THEY PLAYING FOR TIME?WHO KNOWS?NOT THAT...

Algeria voted to Security Council. Let's spend five minutes looking at this wonderful country.

Mahmoud Abbas congratulated Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Tuesday, on the election of Algeria as a member of the UN Security Council.Let's take a quick look at what life is like in Algeria today.- A law was passed in 1962 that ensured that anyone without a Muslim grandparent couldn't be a citizen. Some 140,000 Jews had to leave, and the laws, while changed, ensure...

Amazing how "pro-Palestinian" voices are being silenced on campus

On Monday, Human Rights Watch's Omar Shakir - a BDS advocate who was hired by that organization not in spite of but because of his rabid hate for Israel - spoke at Yale University about Israel's "apartheid."During the course of his speech, he predictably engaged in the usual anti-Israel lies, based on the slanderous idea that Israel's non-equal treatment of non-citizen Palestinians...

Someone complained about one of my @KenRoth tweets to Twitter in Germany (update)

Ken Roth, formerly of Human Rights Watch, has been having a meltdown lately. Over the summer, Harvard's Kennedy School did not offer him a fellowship, reportedly because rich Zionists who fund the school didn't like his record of crazed anti-Israel tweets and reports.We have no information about whether this is really the reason. But Roth is pushing that narrative as...

The most important unwritten law in the West: Don't piss off irrational, extremist Muslims

It is important to examine two events in recent days, as they both severely limit the freedom of Westerners - and signal far worse things that could come.The first is the visit by Israeli minister of security Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Temple Mount.The second is the publicizing of the removal of an instructor at Hamline University for including depictions of Mohammed in his art...

Hundreds of liberal US rabbis embrace a form of BDS

JTA reports: More than 330 American rabbis, including some who occupy prominent roles in major cities, are pledging to block members of the Religious Zionist bloc in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government from speaking at their synagogues and will lobby to keep them from speaking in their communities.An open letter now circulating says they will not invite members of the...

Palestinian prime minister insists that Palestinian films must be anti-Israel propaganda - and soon it will be policy

Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh met with Palestinian filmmakers on Tuesday and gave them one message: produce pro-Palestinian propaganda.He stated, "The strength of our narrative in the face of poisonous funding lies in its sincerity, and every Palestinian has a narrative that must be told, and supporting the cinema sector in Palestine is one form of steadfastness....

At Berkeley Law, everyone can choose their identity - except Jews. Everyone has free speech - except for nearly all Jews.

At Berkeley Law School, faculty and staff members are encouraged to include their preferred pronouns in email signatures. Students can indicate their preferred pronouns on their law school applications, as well as on their name tags during student orientation.Clearly, the right to identify oneself as one wishes is important at the law school, and anyone who chooses to ignore...

Jordan freaks out over Dutch diplomat's minor rebuke of press freedoms in the kingdom

The Dutch ambassador to Jordan tweeted, "Pleasure meeting HE Minister of Media AlShubol. An opportunity to discuss issues of common concern, including the media scene in Jordan. Stressed our strong bilateral relationship, and I shared our concerns on Jordan’s declining international ranking on freedom of speech. Netherlands ready for cooperation."Jordan ranks 129th out...

Palestinians know their leaders are corrupt - but Western media keeps downplaying it

The full results of the latest PCPSR poll of Palestinians has been published, and it finds a consistent pattern.86% of Palestinians say there is corruption in the Palestinian Authority and 73% say there is corruption in institutions under Hamas’ control in the Gaza Strip.That is truly overwhelming majority - and it is a story that the Western media continuously downplays....

Arkansas anti-BDS law is upheld - demanding equal treatment for Israel does not violate free speech

From JTA:A US federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas state law requiring all public contractors to promise they won’t boycott Israel in a Wednesday ruling, overturning an earlier decision that had said the contract violates the First Amendment.The ruling by the St. Louis-based US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit was a major victory for pro-Israel activists who have...

Abbas releasing accused killers of Nizar Banat on "bail": report

Remember Nizar Banat? He's the critic who publicly called the Palestinian Authority corrupt and organized protests against Mahmoud Abbas.Last June 24, at 3:30 AM, he was arrested by PA security services. By 6:30 AM, he was dead.The PA pretended to be shocked at his death and arrested a bunch of people after the international community expressed displeasure at an...

Should Twitter remove Trump's tweets?

As a publisher who has had my own materials removed from social media, I am very sensitive to freedom of speech issues.And I'm sensitive from both sides of the issue, since I am certainly against antisemitic and other hate speech.The topic is fraught with emotion, as it should be. We should get emotional both about defending our freedoms and also against those who abuse their...

American Association of University Professors knowingly lies about Zoom, loses its credibility

The NYU - American Association of University Professors issued a statement about Zoom denying PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled on their platform.10/23/2020Today, Zoom unilaterally shut down a webinar hosted by the NYU chapter of the AAUP, and co-sponsored by several NYU departments and institutes. The webinar was scheduled to discuss the censorship, by Zoom and other big tech...