Susan Abulhawa: Censored at Oxford After Witnessing Gaza Genocide

Susan Abulhawa risked her life to enter Gaza and document Israel’s war on Palestinians. When she tried to share the truth at Oxford, they cut her speech. Now she’s speaking out.

Lowkey
By Lowkey
Susan Abulhawa and Lowkey speak on The Watchdog podcast, discussing Gaza, genocide, and censorship, with a background of Palestinian children behind bars

Few Western voices have braved the gates of Gaza during Israel's ongoing military assault. Fewer still have returned to tell the story. Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian-American writer and humanitarian, is one of them. In this sobering episode of "The Watchdog," Abulhawa sits down with host Lowkey to describe the irreversible psychological toll of

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Meet The Think Tanks Behind MAGA’s New Free Speech Crackdown

The right once championed free speech. Now it’s building blacklists—fueled by a foreign-aligned donor machine.

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
Elon Musk speaks during a live interview with Ben Shapiro at an antisemitism symposium hosted by the European Jewish Association in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump—and many of his most prominent right-wing supporters—are directly linked to some of the most radically pro-war, pro-Israel organizations in the country. These connections form a sprawling web of lobbying groups, tech billionaires, and media figures who consistently promote Israeli interests above

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USAID’s Disinformation Primer: Global Censorship in the Name of Democracy

Shocking revelations from a leaked USAID report expose how the agency collaborates with tech giants and media outlets to stifle free speech, silence dissent, and manipulate public opinion under the guise of fighting fake news.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
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A report from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) outlines how the government agency has been encouraging governments, tech platforms, establishment media outlets and advertisers to work together to censor huge swaths of the Internet. The 97-page “disinformation primer,” obtained by conservative firm America First Legal

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MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine

Stand up for truth. Stand up against war. Today, we invite you to join us in empowering MintPress News, the vanguard of fearless investigative journalism that unearths the hidden web of the military industrial complex.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
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Hey everyone, I’m Mnar Adley, founder and director of MintPress News and editor of our video project  “Behind the Headlines.” This decade has felt like a whirlwind, watching in real time the crackdown on independent journalism and alternative voices. In the last year alone, MintPress was banned from PayPal with our balance seized, blocking

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Facebook’s Jordana Cutler Appointed Head of Controversial Israeli Ministry, Sparking Censorship Fears

Facebook’s Jordana Cutler has been named director general of Israel’s controversial Ministry of Strategic Affairs, drawing concern from experts over to her personal biography and Facebook’s history of censoring Palestinian content.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
Jordana Cutler Facebook Israel Feature photo

On Jan. 11, Israel’s new minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, named Facebook senior employee, Jordana Cutler, as the ministry’s director general. The ministry is notorious for combatting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and promoting a positive image of Israel abroad. Yet with Cutler’s biography and Facebook’s history of

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The Truth Will Not Be Televised, with Katie Halper

Katie Halper’s experience is but one example of the blacklisting that progressive voices face in the media, and she cites the influence of the pro-Israel lobby as one reason for this censorship,

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
Lee Camp Katie Halper Feature photo

Katie Halper is a comedian and political commentator who has made a name for herself by fearlessly sharing her progressive viewpoints on a range of issues. She hosts “The Katie Halper Show”, where she interviews guests and discusses current events, and she is also the co-host of the podcast, “Useful Idiots”. Despite the popularity of her work,

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