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When It Comes to Palestine, Free Speech Rights Are Under Attack
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A frightening wave of firings, threats, and retaliation against pro-Palestinian writers and activists has chilled the political climate. Now, more than ever, the “Palestine exception” to free speech standards is being challenged.
Palestine Legal has documented numerous reports of censorship that together paint a picture of systematic repression. (Nick Lachance/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Last week’s news that the Associated Press had fired a young journalist because of her support for Palestinian rights while in college at Stanford broke Twitter.
The Stanford College Republicans (who had often railed about cancel culture) bragged about their successful cancelation of Emily Wilder, which seemed all the more appalling given that Israel had just bombed the AP office in Gaza.
In 2014, after Hamas members kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, Israeli forces arrested hundreds of Palestinians, and the Israeli response quickly grew into an on-the-ground military operation in Gaza. In the subsequent seven-week assault, according to a United Nations report, 2,251 Palestinians were killed 1,462 of them civilians along with 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians. At least four journalists were killed.
Omar was an Arab-American reporter on the ground in 2014 for a major American newspaper. (Omar is not his real name.) When he tried to cover the mass Palestinian causalities, he began to get what he saw as perplexing orders from his editor’s bosses.
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