Forwarded from Pegasus NSO & other spyware
🇵🇸 Spyware Firm NSO Group Uses Israel–Gaza to “Crisis-Wash” Image | The Intercept - 10/11/2023
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #NSO #Pegasus #Israel #US
#IsraelLobby #Occupation #Apartheid #Zionism
NSO’s letter to Blinken — publicly filed as part of Paul Hastings’s obligation under the Foreign Agents Registration Act — is part of the company’s latest attempt to reinvent its image and, most importantly, a bid to reverse the blacklisting. (Neither the State Department nor Paul Hastings responded to requests for comment.)
For NSO, the blacklisting has been an existential threat. The push to reverse it, which included hiring multiple American public relations and law firms, has cost NSO $1.5 million in lobbying last year, more than the government of Israel itself spent. It focused heavily on Republican politicians, many of whom are now vocal in their support of Israel, and against a ceasefire in the brutal war being waged by the country in the Gaza Strip. #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #NSO #Pegasus #Israel #US
#IsraelLobby #Occupation #Apartheid #Zionism
First, Elon Musk made us pay for ‘free speech’. Now he decides who’s allowed it | Jonathan Cook
Musk’s X is simply the latest innovation on the traditional “free speech” model from the bad old days. Then, only a handful of very rich men could afford to buy themselves lots of hired hands, known as journalists..
He has threatened users with suspension for repeating slogans such as “From the river to the sea, #Palestine will be free” – in other words, for calling for an end to what the judges of the World Court recently decreed to be Israel’s #apartheid rule over Palestinians. He is also against hosting on X the term “decolonisation” in reference to Israel, claiming perversely that “it implies a Jewish #genocide” – itself an implicit admission that Israelis (not Jews) have long been colonising Palestine and ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
The #IsraelLobby is also pushing hard for a ban on the words “#Zionism” and “Zionist”. It won’t be long before X, like #Meta, cracks down on these terms too.
#Hasbara
Musk’s X is simply the latest innovation on the traditional “free speech” model from the bad old days. Then, only a handful of very rich men could afford to buy themselves lots of hired hands, known as journalists..
He has threatened users with suspension for repeating slogans such as “From the river to the sea, #Palestine will be free” – in other words, for calling for an end to what the judges of the World Court recently decreed to be Israel’s #apartheid rule over Palestinians. He is also against hosting on X the term “decolonisation” in reference to Israel, claiming perversely that “it implies a Jewish #genocide” – itself an implicit admission that Israelis (not Jews) have long been colonising Palestine and ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
The #IsraelLobby is also pushing hard for a ban on the words “#Zionism” and “Zionist”. It won’t be long before X, like #Meta, cracks down on these terms too.
#Hasbara
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