1-17-2020 MuzzleWatch: The forces of censorship are unrelenting. Rob Lipton Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/muzzlewatch-the-forces-of-censorship-are-unrelenting/

The new year is starting off fast, the forces of censorship are waxing.  This makes sense as there is a well-financed, coherent, state, NGO and private political campaign that is, as predicted, unrelenting.  At this writing, 28 US states now have some version of anti-BDS and/or explicitly pro-Israel laws on their books and these are not idle, toothless resolutions. Often these laws prohibit the state from entering into contracts with any entity or person that supports BDS.  These laws have the explicit goal of suppressing any kind of free speech and courts throughout the U.S. agree.   At the federal level, Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism empowers attempts, as we'll be discussing below, to, the maximum extent possible, suppress any US efforts to present a Palestinian perspective.  Here is a selected listing of some of the most egregious muzzling activities in this week alone…

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