The New Yorker is excerpting portions of Ronan Farrow's new blockbuster, Catch and Kill. Farrow has reported the hell out of Hollywood's sexual predators over the past year or more, including Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Alan Dershowitz, and many others. In the portion published yesterday, Farrow recounts his and Rose McGowan's interactions with Israeli … [Read more...]
Facebook Suspends Me, Calling Criticism of Israeli Settler “Hate Speech”
Yesterday, I was using Facebook when a message popped on my screen saying that a post I'd published on the platform had been found to be "hate speech." My account was suspended for seven days. I would have no access to publishing content or comments during that time. The post consisted of a link to an Al Monitor article about a Palestinian family which had … [Read more...]
The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State
I delivered this paper last month at the UC Berkeley conference, Virtual Internment: Islamophobia, Surveillance and Unequal Citizenship. It was sponsored by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project directed by Hatem Bazian. The video of my talk is posted here. Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus specializes in developing cyber-technology, … [Read more...]
Has Facebook Decided the Star of David is Anti-Semitic?
As readers will know, my Facebook account was suspended for three days last week, because the censors determined that comments I made about racist Israeli rabbis were not "respectful." I have posted a query to Monica Bickert, FB vice president for global standards asking why my anti-racist speech was determined to be disrespectful. She has not replied to … [Read more...]
