Another Journalist Arrested In Another European Nation For Wrong Thinking About Israel

Another Journalist Arrested In Another European Nation For Wrong Thinking About Israel

Jan. 25, 2025

U.S. and ISRAEL IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

They’ve arrested another pro-Palestinian journalist, this time in Switzerland.

The Electronic Intifada’s executive director Ali Abunimah has reportedly been detained by Swiss police in Zurich, after having been interrogated for an hour and released the previous day when entering the country. Abunimah, who is Palestinian-American, has played a leading role in exposing and critiquing the apartheid abuses of Israel for many years.

In October of last year, Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley saw his home raided by British “counterterrorism” police in response to his social media posts about Israel’s western-backed abuses in the middle east. Multiple electronic devices were seized. No charges were ever filed.

Suppression of dissident speech is becoming more and more overt throughout the west as the empire becomes more violent and tyrannical in its efforts to suppress revolutionary sentiments at home and the emergence of a multipolar world abroad. The facade of an enlightened society where ideas and information are freely exchanged for the enrichment of liberal democracy has been rapidly giving way to iron-fisted authoritarianism as our historically unprecedented democratization of information allows ordinary people to cast a critical eye on their rulers in ways they never used to be able to.

The world’s first live-streamed genocide has seen the western empire scramble into panic mode as raw video footage circulating on social media opened people’s eyes in ways no propaganda spinmeister could possibly reframe. That’s why we are seeing police forces increasingly deployed against journalists and activists whose sole crime consists of voicing wrongthink about the empire and its actions.

The empire managers need to be cautious about how rapidly they reveal to the public that we do not live in a free society, however. The best way to keep us all mindlessly marching along to the beat of this capitalist dystopia is to deceive us into thinking that we are free. The more they expose their hand, the more they risk awakening a real revolutionary response to their tyranny by showing everyone how locked down our society really is.

Reading by Tim Foley

https://electronicintifada.net/content/eis-ali-abunimah-arrested-switzerland/50333

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