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CPJ urges Egypt to release journalists on trial for false news

July 10, 2018January 9, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

CPJ urges Egypt to release journalists on trial for false news Washington, D.C., July 10, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Egyptian authorities to drop the charges against a group of journalists held in pretrial detention for false news and release the journalists immediately. Cairo’s national security prosecutor on July 4 charged at least…

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Facebook racism targets Palestinians & Arabs

April 1, 2018April 2, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Facebook racism targets Palestinians & Arabs Jewish Voice for Peace, one of several Jewish American organizations that advocates for peace based on compromise and justice between Palestinians and Israelis, reports that Facebook is actively censoring posts by Palestinians and pro-Palestinian users, while ignoring racist and hate-filled posts from pro-Israel extremists. Facebook has a history of…

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Jordanian hate speech law could further stifle press freedoms

February 20, 2018August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Jordanian hate speech law could further stifle press freedoms By Ignacio Miguel Delgado Culebras CPJ Middle East and North Africa Correspondent Recently proposed amendments to Jordan’s 2015 cybercrime law, including a vague and broad definition of hate speech, will further stifle press freedom on the pretext of protecting the country’s citizens, and could result in further…

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Controversial Israeli film “Foreign Land” in U.S. in March

February 11, 2018February 11, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Controversial Israeli film “Foreign Land” in U.S. in March Israeli officials denounce the film and promote censorship, urging Israelis not to view it, show it or support it, which means everyone should see this documentary [Updated] The film tells how Israeli society slips into extremism from the personal viewpoint of an Arab actor and a…

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Beware of pro-Israel Quora.com

February 1, 2018February 1, 2018 rayhanania 2 Comments

Beware of pro-Israel Quora.com The social media “question” site Quora.com recently pushed me to join so I did. I thought it might help with columns I write. You post a question and strangers answer. I posted a question this week that apparently Quora didn’t like. Why haven’t the Arabs done more to protest against President…

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Israel arrests Palestinian journalist in West Bank

September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Israeli security forces arrest Palestinian journalist in West Bank Israeli security forces should immediately release Palestinian journalist Abdul Rahman Awad, a correspondent in Ramallah for the Hamas-affiliated Palestinian news agency Safa, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Israeli forces yesterday morning arrested Awad at his home in the village of Budrus, 19 miles (31…

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Israel’s ‘Cyber Unit’ illegally censors social media posts

September 14, 2017April 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Israel’s ‘Cyber Unit’ illegally censors social media posts The ‘Cyber Unit’, part of the Israeli State Attorney’s Office, collaborates with social media platforms – including U.S.-based giants Facebook and Twitter – to censor users’ posts, but has no legal authority to do so. Israel’s state attorney’s office is running a “Cyber Unit” which, in collaboration…

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Sudanese journalist fined over column criticizing police

August 22, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Sudanese journalist fined over column criticizing police New York, August 22, 2017—Sudanese authorities yesterday fined Suheir Abdelrahim, a columnist for the daily Al-Tayyar, for a column criticizing the police, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the sentence and called on authorities not to contest the journalist’s appeal. At an earlier hearing,…

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Wikipedia Censors Mordechai Vanunu and “The Samson Option” May Provide an Explanation

March 6, 2017August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

Wikipedia censored quotes by Mordechai Vanunu within minutes Wikipedia claimed “we don’t need a quote farm from unreliable sources” The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy may help explain Wikipedia Censorship By Eileen Fleming On Sunday ‘SamPhillips1948’ responded to a Wikipedia call at Mordechai Vanunu’s page for “additional citations for verification” under…

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APN protests detention of New Israel Fund VP

February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

APN protests detention of New Israel Fund VP Americans for Peace now expresses its Deep Concern over Israel’s Detention and Questioning of NIF Vice President Jennifer Gorovitz. Detention expands from Palestinians harassed at Ben Gurion Airport to American Jewish activists who criticize Israel’s extremist rightwing government Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) is deeply concerned about…

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Quora Censors Senior Correspondent Report on Vanunu

April 20, 2016April 21, 2016 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

UPDATE: On Thursday around 1 PM EST, Mordecai Vanunu Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower announced at TWITTER: April 21 2016 didn’t bring my Freedom. They postponed again their decision about this case, but I am ready to go any time soon. Freedom Must come At 1:30 PM on April 21, I received the following TWEET from Marc…

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Outfront Media Dishonors USS Liberty Vets and Friends

April 7, 2016April 7, 2016 USS_Liberty Info 8 Comments

OUTFRONT Media’s portfolio includes more than 400,000 displays in the top 25 markets across the U.S. and in more than 180 cities across the U.S. and Canada. On Wednesday at Facebook’s Honor USS Liberty Vets page the following message regarding Outfront Media Inc. went live: BILLBOARD COMPANY REFUSES TO HONOR NAVY VETS – We placed this…

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Fearful of protests, Egypt keeps stadia closed

December 13, 2015December 13, 2015 James Dorsey No Comments

Egyptian law enforcement authorities and the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), in a reflection of fears that stadia in Egypt could once more emerge as platforms for anti-government protest, have extended a ban on spectators attending matches that has been in place for much of the last five years.

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How Silverstein and Feigenholtz Strengthen Extremism and Violence

June 11, 2015June 13, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Instead of introducing a law to urge Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and avoid violence, Illinois Legislators State Sen. Ira Silverstein and State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz introduced a law to strip Americans of their Constitutional Rights of Free Speech and to defend Israel’s extremist policies including its discrimination against Christians and Muslims, the theft of civilian lands and…

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Using American Tax Dollars to Undermine Civil Rights

April 23, 2015April 29, 2015 rayhanania 1 Comment

Pro-Israel activists and elected officials who put a foreign country’s interests before the interests of Americans are behind a widespread campaign to extend an Israeli law that could jail any Israeli who criticizes Israel or advocates a boycott of Israel to now include Americans. The Israeli law, approved in 2011, and the American laws are based…

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Beauty Pageants and the Ugly Debate

January 29, 2015June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania I used to watch beauty pageants purely for entertainment. But in recent years, they’ve become the focus of a cultural debate between the Arab world, and the rest. The Miss Universe Pageant was held Sunday in Doral, Florida in the United States. It featured 88 female contestants competing in categories involving their…

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Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue

March 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue By Ray Hanania (Creators Syndicate, March 28, 2014. Click here to read the Arabic version of this column) This week, the mainstream American news media went berserk when it was disclosed that the Washington Bureau chief of the Israeli Jerusalem Post was denied an…

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Illinois Senator Silverstein to censor American critics of foreign country Israel

March 19, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Illinois Senator Silverstein to censor American critics of foreign country Israel By Ray Hanania An Illinois state Senator has introduced legislation that would deny Americans the right to criticize or boycott an educational institution in a foreign country, and deny state funding to any organization in which criticism or boycott has been expressed. The law…

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