Israel & the Threat to Free Speech
On 24 January 2025, I was on Glenn Greenwald’s evening show — “System Update.”
We talked at length about the situation in the Middle East and what the coming of the Trump administration is likely to mean for Israel and the broader region. Very importantly, we talked at the end of the show about the threat the Israel lobby presents to free speech in the US, as it works overtime to shut down any criticism of Israel and the US-Israeli relationship.
https://rumble.com/v6d3kep-system-update-show-396.html
If Israel was acting ethically it would actually want the whole world to know and indeed openly encourage conversations about the current situation.
Let’s get back to principles, that outside journalists are banned from reporting from Gaza or the West Bank should ring alarm bells and be universally condemned. Israel and its supporters clearly do not endorse free speech.
With respect to freedom of expression inside the US, its not "Israel" that is the threat to free speech. Its Americans. People with American passports, born in America, who serve an agenda of loyalty to furthering the ethno-state, the settler-colonial project of "israel".
if we didnt want this to occur.....then we should have objected when the top ranks and executive leadership of institutions across government, business, education, the media, and all aspects of civil society.....were being stockpiled with ethnic groups that had a high tendency of loyalty to that project.
Of course it was NEVER acceptable to point out the assembly of such cabals of biased groups of people that scratched each other backs and structurally shut out others from power - for decades on end leading up to the present date. Despite the fact that this bias in assembly clearly was not diverse or inclusive in any way shape or form.
So be honest - the problems of supression of free speech and institutional rot and corruption didn't begin now.