"“Most #Israelis don’t know much about #Palestinians. They think they are terrorists, all of them, or vague images with no names, no faces, no family, no homes, no hopes,”Baruchin said. “What I am trying to do in my posts is present Palestinians as #human beings.”
Featured story: "The conservative campaign to harass the libs out of academia has already sent a chill through #Texas’ world-class public universities, making professors and administrators so fearful of setting off the lunatics in charge at the Capitol that they censor themselves—in scholarship or in their communications with students and the public."
‘If the UK uses its new powers to scan people’s data, lawmakers will damage the security people need to protect themselves from harassers, data thieves, authoritarian governments, and others. Paradoxically, UK lawmakers have created these new risks in the name of online safety.’
What happens when you're so upset at all the anti-Biden signs in Wickenberg, AZ you put up your own quite graphic anti-Trump signs? Trumpers get upset and call the police and they come a knockin', but if you're @Yoshi you know your rights, don't back down & then one day a reporter comes knocking and your story gets out there for everybody to see.
Watch (and share) because there are more Democrats in Arizona than you might know.
Well, they did it. eLife fired Michael Eisen. Absolutely outrageous. The bounds of allowed thought tighten. Any criticism of Israel is out of bounds. A new McCarthyism, except instead of communists under the bed, it's people who think it matters both when Israelis are slaughtered AND when Palestinians are slaughtered. And many, many in the academic community, seeing this, are afraid to speak, especially those without tenure, & even w/ tenure especially those from Middle Eastern countries other than Israel. How easily they can be slandered as anti-semitic should they speak.
Salman Rushdie warns free expression under threat in first public address after attack.
"Now I am sitting here in the U.S., I have to look at the extraordinary attack on libraries, and books for children in schools," the author said. "The attack on the idea of libraries themselves. It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard.”
Just Stop Oil co-founders Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam were arrested this morning for speeches they'd given at the Green Gathering Festival over the summer.
Here's Hallam's offending speech (via JSO on :birdsite:) -- will put transcript in next toot(s)
From yesterday: Priscilla Villarreal, the controversial citizen journalist from #Laredo, promised to appeal her case to the Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said it was legal to jail her just for releasing public information received through unauthorized channels. Experts suggest it would hurt everyday #journalism if upheld: https://www.texasobserver.org/priscilla-villarreal-journalist-la-gordiloca-fifth-circuit/
“This is very, very unsettling ... because they are basically saying you can’t do certain things that are obviously something you would do as a journalist.”
Jewish #writers & other artists and thinkers write an open letter on how criticism of Israel is not antisemitism: “we find this rhetorical tactic antithetical to Jewish values, which teach us to repair the world, question authority, and champion the oppressed over the oppressor.” They also liken it to an “an insidious gagging of #FreeSpeech.”
From last week: “I think the presence of armed riot #police always increases the tension in these kinds of situations—and I think it’s the wrong move.”
Today in Labor History November 23, 1903: Army troops were sent to Cripple Creek, Colorado to put down a rebellion by striking coal miners. 600 union members were thrown into a military bullpen, and held for weeks without charges. When a lawyer arrived with a writ of habeas corpus, General Bell, who led the repression, responded "Habeas corpus, hell! We'll give 'em post mortems!” The strike was led by Big Bill Haywood and the Western Federation of Miners, which, at the time, was the most militant union in the country, calling for revolution and abolition of the wage system.
I'm seeing so many new defenders of "Free Speech" out there, and while I believe in Free Speech as a principle too, society has learned that sometimes "Free Speech" is a cover for hate and harassment.
We even have a name for it, "Freeze Peach".
Yet I'm seeing the same people who would otherwise demand action be taken against Freeze Peach now defending people who make direct threats against Jews: calling for violence against them, calling for their murder, calling for their discrimination, villianizing and calling for de-funding of Jewish institutions.
I don't believe these people have turned into "Free Speech Absolutists" ; they would still recognize and rightfully demand the silencing of hate groups in favor of human rights in other cases.
The logical conclusion I've come to is that they believe Jews are sub-human, and thus undeserving of these same protections.
Once seen as subhuman, any action on them can be justified.
“The British Medical Association (BMA) has said it is "very concerned" by a tribunal's finding that a doctor's participation in Just Stop Oil protests amounted to professional misconduct
… She said: [BMA] "Climate change has been declared the biggest potential health crisis in the world by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
“When members of the public are engaged in a peaceful #protest in a public space—assuming they are not obstructing traffic, or disrupting campus activities—there is very little legal basis for law enforcement to demand they leave.”