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The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
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#12It's not apartheid because Palestinians are not the majority. Sheikh Jarrah was bought by Jews before the 48s war and judges simply enforce the owners right to their own properties. There's no rule saying if you happen to build on someone else's land you get to keep it.
Jerusalem Arabs get Israeli citizenship and all the rights derived from it. They just don't get the right to incite for violence as they have shown again and again it leads to terrorism.
These Arabs who cry about being a victim have more rights than any Arabs in neighboring countries, where they aren't even allowed to walk outside as a woman without head covering, and speaking up against the regime is a capital offense.
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#13shhhhhhh
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#14Not sure why HN moderation changed the original title, which was "I am Palestinian. Here’s how Israel silences us on social media." to its current form.
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#15"For months, the 23-year-old el-Kurd twins had become the faces of Palestinian resistance in Sheikh Jarrah, broadcasting on Twitter and Instagram how they and seven other families refused to be forcibly expelled from their homes by Israeli settlers. " So there was not really a problem with social media then. I am hearing that recordings of violence got silenced, thats not weird. If i post a violent video of something…
The issue is that the social media platforms specifically target silencing Palestinian content. Both Twitter and Facebook attributed it to technical bugs [1] [2] while they kept hiding the content. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/palestinian-facebook-... [2] https://soyacincau.com/2021/05/17/instagram-twitter-palestin...
Well they say automated systems did it, could be. Especially if the social media teams or other supports from Israel are constantly reporting (violent) content, then that content would be flagged/deleted etc.
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If only they used all that money to build up instead of down..
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#18Not sure why HN moderation changed the original title, which was "I am Palestinian. Here’s how Israel silences us on social media." to its current form.
Demonisation of Israel cannot be tolerated. Very telling.
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Peace is not possible on occupied land or in an apartheid state.
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#20As an American Jew who grew up with a distorted and racist world view in regard to Palestine this just feels like history repeating itself. The troubles that face Israelis have always been amplified over those of Palestinians in my experience. That control of the narrative led me to be actively racist for most of my life while thinking I was not and also morally superior. This kind of censorship has a body count, and it lets war crimes happen in clear view while the on lookers think they are doing the right thing.