It doesn’t take much to be accused of supporting terrorism these days. And that doesn’t just go for student activists. In recent months, dozens of lawmakers and public officials have, without evidence, insinuated that U.S. news outlets provide material support for Hamas. Some even issued thinly veiled threats to prosecute news organizations over those bogus allegations.
Their letters were political stunts. Prosecutors would never have been able to carry their burden of proof under anti-terrorism laws, and all the pandering politicians who signed the letters knew that. But next time might be different, especially if nonprofit news outlets, such as The Intercept, manage to offend the government.
There’s no reason to believe the press is exempt from overreach. In their recent letters, elected officials called for terrorism investigations of the New York Times, Reuters, CNN, and the Associated Press, relying on allegations that those outlets bought photographs from Palestinian freelancers who covered Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
It’s McCarthyism all over again. God forbid someone thinks Israel is fucking up and actually says so. This kind of shit was repugnant then and it will be repugnant in the history books.
Enjoy being on the wrong side, you intellectually stunted children.
The House Un-Semitic Activities Committee?
But by some crazy coincidence, everyone who’s guilty didn’t vote for a leather reality tv star
so we can do this but not threaten individual churches with the same when they break the terms of their exemption? great :(
Don’t you know that “freedom of religion” means “freedom of religion to do whatever they want”?
Roberts’s SCOTUS shoulda told you.
ok then what is freedom of the press then 🤨
edit: /s
sorry to those who thought i was being serious lol
Freedom of the press to do whatever they want.
“They,” of course, doesn’t refer to the press itself, but to the government toadies pushing this crap.
No church has ever been antisemitic. Go ahead, try to name one!
I meant thousand! Name one thousand! See? You can’t cuz it doesn’t exist!
/s (in case it needs to be said)
Wait, what about the ones that actually support domestic terrorists? What about the ones that are run by actual nazis?
If a Nazi supports israel is he still Anti Semitic?
Checkmate Hitler.
yes, if he thinks of Israel as a place for jews that want to live in his country to be deported to.
See also : Rishi sunak, Rwanda.
Rishi sunak, Rwanda
Weird name for a city tbh
Actually snorted lmao
Historical reason for the US supporting the creation of Israel ^^
Those are all troubled lone wolves. Just a LOT of troubled lone wolves supporting one another, communicating over Discord, and working together towards a common cause
The house took away your free speech to support a genocide.
Generally tends to happen when it gets co-opted by the far reich.
This might be related to Chris Hedges being fired from The Real News Network
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/my-show-on-the-real-news-has-been
The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My last show with Dennis Kucinich, who is running as an independent for Congress in Ohio, was removed from the site.
