Terrorism, not activism: A closer look at Samidoun
Terrorism, not activism: A closer look at Samidoun
Contrary to their peaceful facade, Samidoun works to promote the BDS movement against Israel and stirs up anti-Israel sentiment through protests, rallies and events, including among students.
(April 21, 2021 / JNS) In February 2021, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz officially designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a terrorist organization for its ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), itself considered a terrorist organization in the United States, the European Union, Israel and Canada. According to the Israeli National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing, this organization “plays a leading and significant role in the PFLP’s anti-Israel propaganda efforts, fundraising and recruiting activists.”
‘No Accountability, No Peace’: Sloganeering and the Language of the Left
While conservatives favor blunt language, progressives are more attuned to its potential harm, sometimes to the point of denying words their simple meaning.
April 22, 2021 •
A profusion of left-wing slogans at a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington, D.C.
(Shutterstock)Even though I’m in a profession where I’m sometimes paid by the word, I prefer to use phrases that are short, simple and easily understood. That seems to get harder and harder in covering politics and culture.
There is a constant demand on the left to use words that are more sensitive and less hurtful. Sometimes this makes perfect sense. Other times it feels like they want to fight on the wrong battlefield.
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The Social Order
In July 2015, President Obama paid a press-saturated visit to a federal penitentiary in Oklahoma. The cell blocks that Obama toured had been evacuated in anticipation of his arrival, but after talking to six carefully prescreened inmates, he drew some conclusions about the path to prison. “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made,” the president told the waiting reporters.
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New York Times seconded this observation in its front-page coverage of Obama’s prison excursion. There is but a “fine line between president and prisoner,” the paper noted. Anyone who “smoked marijuana and tried cocaine,” as the president had as a young man, could end up in the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, according to the
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