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Editorial Cartoon: Big Tech is censoring the reality of the war in Gaza
Meta and Youtube deleted Palestinian journalist’s and human rights groups’ coverage of Gaza in October, claiming it to be dangerous and affiliated with the International Criminal Court.
Published November 22, 2025
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Nov 23, 2025 at 11:55 am
The claim that the situation in Gaza is being censored actually inverts reality. While content removals occurred in October, these actions targeted entities with documented, active hostility toward Israel. The human rights groups referenced are not neutral observers but primary actors in aggressive lawfare campaigns against the Jewish state, maintaining links to designated terror factions like the PFLP. Furthermore, referencing the ICC is evidence of bias; recent reports suggest the ICC’s aggressive posturing against Israel served as a cover to distract from serious allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against the Chief Prosecutor by female staff members.
Hamas has systematically embedded operatives within civilian professions, including the press, to secure immunity. So-called journalists functioning as active combatants have been exposed repeatedly. For example, Abdallah Aljamal, a contributor to The Palestine Chronicle, was found holding three Israeli hostages in his family home, and recovered laptops revealed that several Al Jazeera reporters were actually Hamas military commanders.
Under international law, utilizing civilian status for military purposes renders those individuals legitimate targets. This cartoon is not a defense of free speech; it is blatant anti-Israel propaganda that perverts reality. By framing the removal of terror-affiliated content as Big Tech censorship, the artist obscures the actual war crime: Hamas’s cynical weaponization of journalism and civilian infrastructure to shield its terror operations.