@appassionato@palestine Joe Biden is over here in the US celebrating press freedom while having cops beat up protestors while over in Israel, our putative democratic ally in the ME, they're shutting down international news agencies, banning the international press from Gaza and killing Palestinians willing to step into that role by the hundreds.
> Make no mistake: This is an authoritarian escalation.
> Blaming outside agitators or interests always was a propaganda ploy and remains so now.
> It is no accident that this indefensible police crackdown comes in service of an indefensible war. The very extremity of protest repression speaks to desperation on the part of institutions of the American establishment.
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the #injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” “Those who profess to favor #freedom and yet deprecate #agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.” - Frederick Douglass #Genocide#Gaza#Palestine#quotes
> “There was absolutely no sign of any violence, of any antisemitism at all,” says Bartov, who warns antisemitism is being used to silence speech about Israel.
Ukraine rises in World Press Freedom Index despite constraints of full-scale war (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine rose from 79th to 61st place in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on May 3.