I wish all of you a happy, healthy and sweet New Year. May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life. DONATE: I created a Facebook Fundraiser on my birthday to support my activism, journalism, and research; along with my fiscal sponsor, the Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media. If you have a Facebook account I invite you to make a donation. My headline … [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...]
Twitter Outlaws “Yid” as “Hate Speech”
Today is Censorship Day at my blog. Today, a group of pro-Israel Twitter trolls joined in reporting my account after I called one of them a treife Yid. Here is a different post in the thread containing the same phrase, which apparently Twitter had not (yet) censored. The culprits behind the lock-out of my account are the two mentioned in the tweet: Lern … [Read more...]
