Buying Time for Genocide - The US & Israel never wanted a ceasefire — blocking efforts for months while the US kept supplying weapons. #ARMSEMBARGONOW ... GAZA STRIPPED... and KILLING THE STORY anti-Palestian racism in media justifying Israeli violence & censoring rights-based language

Visualizing Palestine

@visualizingpal

“Buying Time For Genocide.” The US & Israel never wanted a ceasefire — blocking efforts for months while the US kept supplying weapons. In the latest talks, Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff helped Israel strip all guarantees to end the genocide. #ARMSEMBARGONOW

 

May 15 2025 marks 77 years since the Nakba—amid ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and intensifying violence across Palestine. Our new visual with

@AlMezanCenter

traces Gaza’s history of enclosure, shaped by British colonialism and sustained by Zionist settler colonialism. #Nakba

Killing The Story

https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/killing-the-story-april-2025/

This visual in our series on anti-Palestinian racism captures the dehumanization of Palestinians in mainstream media, where they are constantly silenced, discredited, and excluded.

Anti-Palestinian racism is one tool that reinforces a structure designed to weaken Palestinian resistance and narrative, and obscure global awareness of the Palestinian struggle for justice and liberation.

Explore the other three visuals in the series, one of which offers a framework for recognizing Anti-Palestinian racism as a distinct form of racism, The other visual highlights case studies from primary and secondary education. The third highlights case studies of anti-Palestinian racism on college campuses.  https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/anti-palestinian-racism-in-the-media/

 https://visualizingpalestine.org/

Israel is banning Al Jazeera, America is banning TikTok. We know why: What the two laws have in common is desire to silence Israel-Gaza war critics.

‘The TikTok law, like the Al Jazeera one, isn’t limited to its initial target.’ Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

Seth Stern 

The White House rightly said it was “concerning” when Israel’s parliament laid the groundwork to shut down Al Jazeera within its borders in April. On Sunday, Israel made its move. The Foreign Press Association called it a “dark day for democracy”.

If the White House remains concerned, it has a strange way of showing it. Joe Biden and his administration have supported and encouraged recent censorial laws and court cases that virtually ensure that “dark days” are ahead at home as well.

The best-known example is the bill Biden signed into law last month to ban or force a sale of TikTok. Like Israel’s Al Jazeera ban, that law relies on unsubstantiated assertions of national security concerns, ignoring Justice Hugo Black’s prescient warning in the Pentagon papers case that “the word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the first amendment”.

Another thing the two laws have in common is that it’s an open secret that those concerns are pretexts for silencing the growing backlash against the Israel-Gaza war. Senator Mitt Romney essentially acknowledged as much in a recent conversation with Antony Blinken, the secretary of state. He wasn’t the first to say the quiet part out loud.

The TikTok law, like the Al Jazeera one, isn’t limited to its initial target. It opens the door for future bans of other platforms – including foreign-controlled online news outlets... READ MORE   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/israel-al-jazeera-us-tiktok-ban

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6 days before the 2nd anniversary of Israel's killing of correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh: Israel to shut down local offices and broadcasrs of Al Jazeera in Ar & En, seize equipment used for its broadcasts; & limit access to its websites

 

Maha Hussaini

@MahaGaza

Breaking: Israel to shut down local offices and broadcasrs of Al Jazeera in Ar & En, seize equipment used for its broadcasts; & limit access to its websites 

This comes 6 days before the 2nd anniversary of Israel's killing of correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh 

*Democracy in action*