A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.”
"The suppression of that report was just one of many actions that Milstein has taken in recent months to tilt U.S. policy toward Israel and shield it from accountability, the report finds — wielding a strange amount of power within the embassy for someone with his rank, and even ruffling feathers among openly pro-Israel officials for his efforts to back its government.
Milstein, who has been in his role since April 2025, has “repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light,” the sources said. He frequently goes to “unusual lengths to frame Israel in a positive light,” officials said, and “has blocked reporting from being sent, rewritten cables to deliver a different — sometimes opposite — message from the original, and delayed approving drafts until the topic was no longer relevant.”
He has insisted that all reports from the section of the embassy that handles Palestinian affairs go through him, which had a major chilling effect on the flow of such reports, going “from several a week to a few a month, as some staffers refrained from writing reports for fear that Mr. Milstein would block or rewrite them.”
Among the other reports he’s suppressed is one on the massive surgeof settler violence in the occupied West Bank this spring, during which Israelis rampaged across Palestinian communities on a daily basis, leaving death and destruction in their wake.
In that report, the embassy reportedly suggested that the Israeli government was not taking sufficient action to stop settler violence. The Israeli government fully backs Israeli settlers and is known to be providing them with the weapons they use to siege Palestinian villages and homes.
Milstein, who is known by officials for intervening in efforts to prevent the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank, blocked the report from being sent. Instead, the embassy sent a cable, with Milstein as its first author, to Washington, D.C. officials entitled “Government Cracks Down on Escalating West Bank Violence.”
Last year, Milstein also reportedly intervened on a cable on the work done by the U.S.-sponsored Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Gaza. The cable, written by U.S. diplomats, noted that Palestinians were being killed at these sites, where Israel unleashed so much violence that the head of GHF resigned just weeks after its launch.
Milstein apparently disagreed, and instead rewrote the cable to say that GHF’s operation was a success.
The reporting is in line with other accounts of Milstein’s outsized role in the embassy."
I guess professionalism these days is OAN, newsmax, fox news, and Mypillow guy's conspiracy theory blog.
And I'm sure the pro-free speech activists in this sub with be applaud at this censorship and will not screem "not censorship" or "whatabout!"
A federal court in Washington, D.C., is to play host to a legal battle Tuesday morning pitting the Walt Disney Co. against the nation's chief broadcast regulator over just how far First Amendment protections can go during the presidency of Donald Trump.
President Trump has repeatedly called for Disney's ABC TV to fire late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who has consistently mocked the president. Trump has also routinely denounced ABC's The View, accusing it of being liberal and unfair.
Trump had earlier sued the network, before returning to office, over incorrect statements anchor George Stephanopoulos made about the verdicts in writer E. Jean Carroll's two lawsuits against Trump. ABC paid $16 million in a December 2024 settlement, including legal fees, to resolve that a month before Trump went back to the White House. But new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro has authorized a high-stakes fight against the administration in court.
Brendan Carr, whom Trump elevated to be the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has echoed the president's complaints. And under Carr, the FCC is moving to review Disney's ownership of all eight of the stations it owns, as part of the ABC Network, years ahead of schedule. That followed months of social media posts from Trump urging that the FCC strip ABC of its station licenses.
I apologize in advance if there isn't enough anti trans or race baiting content in this post.
One of the most consistent predictors that Americans adhere to Christian nationalism is that they have lower education,” Perry told PsyPost. “But there have also been a number of studies that find that persons who subscribe to Christian nationalist views (even after accounting for level of education) exhibit significant knowledge gaps across a variety of different domains.
“A large number of studies have already documented an association between lower cognitive ability and greater religious fundamentalism, political authoritarianism, or otherwise right-wing views,” Perry said.
Journalist Nicholas Kristof recounts interviews detailing widespread sexual abuse committed by Israeli prison guards, soldiers, settlers, and interrogators against Palestinians, especially those in Israeli custody. The premise of the article, which cites reports on sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Gaza war by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and B'Tselem, is that there is a disparity in how allegations of sexual violence are treated when the victims are Palestinian as opposed to when the victims are Israeli.^([1]) Kristof relied on direct interviews with 14 Palestinians, including nonviolence activist Issa Amro and journalist Sami al-Sai, who reported having been sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers or members of Israeli forces.
Mr. Ovadia and other Satmar Jews saw the flag’s display as an endorsement by their town of a state “whose existence their religion holds to be forbidden,” his lawsuit said. A state law prohibits municipal buildings from displaying a foreign flag except under limited circumstances.
Mr. Ovadia said that he drove several people in his van to protest the flag on Nov. 13, 2023, helping gather about 20 Jewish people outside the town hall. Also present, Mr. Ovadia said, were people affiliated with the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta, a fringe, ultra-Orthodox organization whose political activism has been condemned by mainstream Satmars.