West Discovers Transnational Harassment When Target Isn't Palestine
The Guardian is aghast that deepfake images and 'lonely housewife' posters are being sent to ex-Hong Kong activist Carmen Lau and other Beijing critics in the UK and Australia. This, they claim, is a 'ratcheting up' of transnational harassment. One might wonder where this sudden urgency for 'transnational harassment' protections was for, say, Palestinian journalists like Shireen Abu Akleh,
targeted and killed with US-supplied weapons, or the constant vilification and smearing of Palestinian activists for merely speaking out against occupation. When Beijing targets dissidents, it's a global threat. When critics of Israeli policy face doxxing, death threats, and career sabotage in Western nations—often fueled by well-funded lobby groups with actual Congressional reach—it's just 'free
speech' or 'criticism,' apparently. The outrage meter, it seems, is calibrated not by the act itself, but by the geopolitical convenience of the perpetrator.