Islamic Group Kicks Pro-Israel Speaker; US Media Silent on 'Free Speech'
The New Arab reports on the public backlash Indonesian Muslims showed against Any U.S. university campus, where divestment calls and Palestine solidarity are met with police batons and disciplinary action, would do well to consider this example of authentic pushback. While the 'free speech' absolutists in the US news cycle lament campus 'wokeness,' their silence on actual suppression of dissent —
specifically, pro-Palestinian dissent — is deafening. One might observe that such 'uproars' are only deemed newsworthy when they align neatly with demonizing non-Western political movements. Funny how outrage over censorship seems to dissipate when the censored opinions are inconvenient.