{"id":1470589,"date":"2022-05-10T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470589"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:30:21","slug":"these-anti-semitic-activists-dont-want-elon-musk-to-bring-free-speech-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-anti-semitic-activists-dont-want-elon-musk-to-bring-free-speech-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"These Anti-Semitic Activists Don\u2019t Want Elon Musk To Bring Free Speech to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthese-anti-semitic-activists-dont-want-elon-musk-to-bring-free-speech-to-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Several of the groups calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter\u2014citing Elon Musk&#8217;s objectionable views\u2014are at the forefront of the campaign to boycott Israel and are known for trafficking in anti-Semitic canards.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Musk&#8217;s $44 billion purchase of the social media site, a coalition of far-left groups is urging Twitter&#8217;s advertisers to boycott the sale, claiming that Musk &#8220;intends to steamroll&#8221; restrictions on speech and &#8220;provide a megaphone to extremists who traffic in disinformation,&#8221; according to an open letter sent last week to Twitter&#8217;s advertisers, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/03\/tech\/twitter-letter-content-policies\/index.html?utm_term=link&#038;utm_source=twCNN&#038;utm_content=2022-05-03T19%3A15%3A05&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> include Disney, Coca-Cola, and Kraft.<\/p>\n<p>Yet many of the groups involved in the anti-Musk campaign are known for trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes and promoting falsehoods about Israel, often on social media platforms like Twitter. They include Black Lives Matter, the Women&#8217;s March, Kairos, and Friends of the Earth\u2014all of which are known for stoking Jew-hatred and leading the charge to boycott Israel. Musk last week <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1521574041814978562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questioned<\/a> who is funding and organizing these groups, which he says want to &#8220;control your access to information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Black Lives Matter movement, for instance, describes Israel as an &#8220;apartheid state&#8221; and supports efforts by the anti-Israel community to delegitimize the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation (always have. And always will be),&#8221; the group <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/19\/black-lives-matter-comes-out-in-solidarity-with-palestinians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> in 2021, along with the hashtag &#8220;free Palestine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The official Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement&#8217;s Twitter account thanked Black Lives Matter for its support. &#8220;From Ferguson to Palestine, our struggles against racism, white supremacy, and for a just world are united!&#8221; BDS wrote in a follow-up tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of Black Lives Matter&#8217;s cofounders, in 2015 traveled to the Palestinian territories and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebony.com\/news\/dream-defenders-black-lives-matter-ferguson-reps-take-historic-trip-to-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a> in an interview, &#8220;This is an apartheid state. \u2026 We can&#8217;t deny that and if we do deny it we are a part of the Zionist violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation think tank who studies the BLM movement, said the group&#8217;s anti-Israel agenda is at the heart of the movement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The heart of the West is Christianity, and Judaism is at the heart of Christianity,&#8221; Gonzales wrote in a 2021 analysis. &#8220;Christ was a practicing Jew, as were Mary, Joseph, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatherinercc.org\/single-post\/2018\/05\/30\/were-all-the-twelve-apostles-jews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">likely<\/a>\u00a0all the apostles, who worshipped at the Jewish temple along with Jesus. Anyone who truly wants to dismantle the West, to \u2018problematize&#8217; it in critical race theory lingo, will want to start there first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another group joining the anti-Musk cause is the Women&#8217;s March, a far-left coalition of activists who oppose former president Donald Trump. The group has been dogged by charges of anti-Semitism since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>Three Women&#8217;s March founders\u2014Palestinian activist and BDS supporter Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Bob Bland\u2014left the organization in 2019 due to their promotion of anti-Semitic tropes and aggressive advocacy against Israel, which was seen as undermining the group&#8217;s credibility and isolating Jewish members.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/23\/us\/womens-march-anti-semitism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in 2018 that the Women&#8217;s March was &#8220;roiled by accusations of anti-Semitism,&#8221; including efforts to remove Jewish members from prominent positions within the group. The Women&#8217;s March also formed an alliance with longtime anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam movement.<\/p>\n<p>Sarsour, in particular, has trafficked in anti-Semitism. &#8220;Israel was built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else,&#8221; she said during a 2019 speech. &#8220;How can you be against white supremacy in the United States of America and the idea of living in a supremacist state based on race and class, but then you support a state like Israel that is built on supremacy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mallory is a Farrakhan devotee who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commentary.org\/christine-rosen\/linda-sarsour-bernie-sanders-anti-semitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a>\u00a0said Jewish people are &#8220;the mother and father of apartheid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kairos organization, which also signed the anti-Musk letter, is one of the leading advocates for BDS, which wages economic warfare on Israel. The Canadian government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kairoscanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GI-CIDA-10-01-ResponsetoMediaQueries.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the group&#8217;s advocacy anti-Semitic in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of the Earth is another member of the global BDS movement. The group is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bdsmovement.net\/news\/friends-earth-international-statement-support-bds-and-campaign-against-mekorot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured<\/a>\u00a0on BDS&#8217;s official website and supports Israel boycotts. Friends of the Earth has also accused the Jewish state without evidence of preventing Palestinians from accessing clean water.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, these groups wrote in their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/accountabletech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-to-Twitter-Advertisers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open letter<\/a>\u00a0to Twitter advertisers, will &#8220;provide a megaphone to extremists who traffic in disinformation, hate, and harassment. Under the guise of \u2018free speech,&#8217; his vision will silence and endanger marginalized communities, and tear at the fraying fabric of democracy.&#8221; The organizations demand that Twitter&#8217;s advertisers force Musk to uphold the ban on Trump\u2014whom Musk has pledged to reinstate\u2014and aggressively police speech on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As top advertisers on Twitter, your brand risks association with a platform amplifying hate, extremism, health misinformation, and conspiracy theorists,&#8221; the letter states. &#8220;Under Musk&#8217;s management, Twitter risks becoming a cesspool of misinformation, with your brand attached, polluting our information ecosystem in a time where trust in institutions and news media is already at an all-time low.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of the groups calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter\u2014citing Elon Musk&#8217;s objectionable views\u2014are at the forefront of the campaign to boycott Israel and are known for trafficking in anti-Semitic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}