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  Censorship Crusade: Israel Targets Platforms and Online Archives to
  Rewrite Gaza

November 6, 2025
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DropSite News uncovers how Israel is using Meta to silence 
pro-Palestinian voices around the world. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

*By Robert Inlakesh 
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/robert-inlakesh>*


          Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s
          genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed
          propagandists to reshape the historical record.  Zionists have
          also taken over social media platforms. Those who are critical
          of Israel are being censored or arrested.

 From YouTube to X, Wikipedia, and TikTok, Zionists are capturing all 
means of communication to erase the evidence of its genocide, reshape 
the historical record, and censor those critical of it. Meanwhile, the 
Israel Lobby exercises its power through intimidation, paying 
influencers to endorse it, and arresting dissenters whom they frame as 
terrorists.

Back in August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to 
reporters that Tel Aviv was losing to propaganda war. “I think that 
we’ve not been winning [the propaganda war], to put it mildly … There 
are vast forces arrayed against us,” he stated at the time, blaming the 
algorithms for this defeat. Since then, Israel has been working to 
dismantle free speech and censor everything critical of it, across 
social media, as part of an all-encompassing crackdown.

This press conference was no accident; instead, it was part of a much 
larger scheme that began in July with a targeted campaign aimed at 
brainwashing right-wing conservatives in the West. The propaganda plan 
was hatched in three parts: One being Netanyahu going on a number of 
right-wing podcasts; another being a social media censorship campaign, 
along with the financing of propaganda trips to Israel for right-wing 
influencers.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance on the Nelk Boys podcast was his first 
stop in his attempt to revive right-wing support for him personally, yet 
it received enormous backlash at the time. The podcasters were widely 
condemned for both normalizing and asking no critical questions of the 
Prime Minister, who currently has an ICC war crimes warrant out for his 
arrest.

The Israeli Premier then went on a round of coordinated interviews 
across the American corporate media, as a range of other right-wing 
podcasters hosted him. The difference between the corporate media and 
the podcasters who hosted him was that the podcasters were even less 
critical and actively worked to bolster his image.

These disingenuous podcast hosts even attempted to frame themselves as 
defying cancel culture, being edgy and going against the mainstream, 
despite the fact that they were simply doing a worse job than that of 
the corporate media, battling nothing more than their own followings.

Meanwhile, in the background, TikTok hired Erica Mindel, an ex-Israeli 
soldier and ex-ADL employee who openly bragged of her loyalty to Israel, 
as its new “Hate Speech” censorship Tsar. A move that appeared to have 
gone relatively unnoticed, but began to shape what was deemed acceptable 
discourse on the platform.

As this was in the works, the Israeli foreign ministry had already 
funded trips for 16 right-wing influencers to travel to Israel on 
closely coordinated propaganda trips. Their goal was to bring 550 such 
influencers on fully financed tours by the end of the year, which later 
included figures like Tommy Robinson and even former rapper Azealia Banks.

Upon visiting the White House in October, Benjamin Netanyahu attended a 
meeting with right-wing influencers and openly discussed ideas to 
capture social media platforms. At this point, the agenda to kill 
content critical of Israel was already underway, as the TikTok app that 
the Israel Lobby sought to ban just a year prior fell into the hands of 
pro-Israel billionaires.

The world’s second-richest man and top donor to the Israeli military, 
Larry Ellison, is a key figure in this picture, as his company, Oracle, 
is poised to take over TikTok. The move was recently praised by The 
Times of Israel as “raising hopes for tougher anti-Semitism rules”.

Meanwhile, Ellison was busy buying up CBS News and installing the 
completely inexperienced, vehemently pro-Israel journalist, Bari Weiss, 
as the channel’s top executive. Weiss, whose claim to fame was being a 
temporary opinion piece writer at the New York Times before leaving and 
attempting to carve out a career as a right-wing commentator and, later, 
news outlet owner, is clearly inexperienced for taking on her current 
role. Ellison just so happens to be a major stakeholder in Elon Musk’s 
Tesla and X.

In early October, YouTube also decided to quietly delete at least 700 
videos from the platform that documented Israeli human rights 
violations, along with the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human 
rights groups: Al-Haq, Al-Mezan Center, and the Palestinian Center for 
Human Rights. The Intercept published an article explaining the move as 
a capitulation to Donald Trump’s recent sanctions, enacted to shield 
Israel from accountability for its copiously documented war crimes.

Then there is Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, who came out against 
the website’s page covering the Gaza Genocide, asserting that it “needs 
immediate attention”. “At present, the lead and overall presentation 
state, in Wikipedia’s voice, that Israel is committing genocide, 
although that claim is highly contested,” Wales stated, claiming it 
violates the platform’s “neutral” point of view.

At present, every major human rights organization, including Israel’s 
own B’Tselem, all the top legal organizations relevant to the issue, the 
United Nations, and the most representative body of genocide scholars, 
all agree that Israel is committing genocide. In fact, the International 
Court of Justice (ICJ)’s ruling on the matter considers it a plausible 
genocide. The only ones disputing this fact are the Israelis themselves, 
ideologically committed and/or paid Zionist propagandists, in addition 
to Israeli allies who are also implicated in the crime of all crimes.

Objective truth is, however, not relevant to any of these bad-faith 
actors. This is because Israel and its powerful lobbying arms are 
actively pursuing a total crackdown on criticism of Israeli war crimes. 
On X (Twitter), a new censorship warning has been placed over all images 
and videos from Gaza that show Israeli war crimes, also.

What is currently happening is a widespread attempt to wipe content from 
the internet, erase the truth, ban, deport, and arrest those critical of 
Israel. All this as the Israel Lobby brings social media and corporate 
media under its direct control, using the excuse of “anti-Semitism” and 
“terrorism” to do so.

Israel’s censorship crackdown, which the Trump administration is working 
alongside to complete, is by far the worst iteration of cancel culture 
yet. The ongoing crackdown on academic freedom, for example, in order to 
silence criticism of Israel, is by far the most severe in US history. 
Meanwhile, the ADL has just set up a “Mamdani monitor” to track the 
democratically elected incoming New York City Mayor.

/(The Palestine Chronicle)/


/– Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. 
He focuses on the Middle East, specializing in Palestine. He contributed 
this article to The Palestine Chronicle. /

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