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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Censorship Crusade: Israel
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November 6, 2025</div>
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<div><font size="1">DropSite News uncovers how Israel is
using Meta to silence pro-Palestinian voices around
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<p><strong>By <a
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<h3>Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of
Israel\u2019s 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.</h3>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Back in August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu admitted to reporters that Tel Aviv was
losing to propaganda war. \u201cI think that we\u2019ve not been
winning [the propaganda war], to put it mildly \u2026 There
are vast forces arrayed against us,\u201d 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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
\u201cHate Speech\u201d censorship Tsar. A move that appeared to
have gone relatively unnoticed, but began to shape
what was deemed acceptable discourse on the platform.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The world\u2019s 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 \u201craising hopes for tougher
anti-Semitism rules\u201d.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Ellison was busy buying up CBS News and
installing the completely inexperienced, vehemently
pro-Israel journalist, Bari Weiss, as the channel\u2019s
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\u2019s Tesla and X.</p>
<p>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\u2019s recent sanctions,
enacted to shield Israel from accountability for its
copiously documented war crimes.</p>
<p>Then there is Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, who
came out against the website\u2019s page covering the Gaza
Genocide, asserting that it \u201cneeds immediate
attention\u201d. \u201cAt present, the lead and overall
presentation state, in Wikipedia\u2019s voice, that Israel
is committing genocide, although that claim is highly
contested,\u201d Wales stated, claiming it violates the
platform\u2019s \u201cneutral\u201d point of view.</p>
<p>At present, every major human rights organization,
including Israel\u2019s own B\u2019Tselem, 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)\u2019s 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 \u201canti-Semitism\u201d and \u201cterrorism\u201d to do so.</p>
<p>Israel\u2019s 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 \u201cMamdani monitor\u201d to track the democratically
elected incoming New York City Mayor.</p>
<p><em>(The Palestine Chronicle)</em></p>
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<p><span><em>\u2013 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. </em></span></p>
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