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Paying lip service to freedom of opinion, expression, democracy, etc., when it comes to you and ignoring it when it comes to me is “open hypocrisy.”
The world has witnessed US police brutality against peaceful student protesters demanding an end to the war on Gaza as it exposes the hypocrisy in the field of freedom of expression.
The world also witnessed the process of silencing mouths, falsifying facts, the horror of genocide, daily crimes, and arbitrary revenge against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Footage showing US police suppressing and beating protesters, dragging students to the ground, and carrying them off in handcuffs has flooded social media in a conflict that has gone from simply demanding a ceasefire in Gaza to arresting hundreds of students and faculty. The sit-ins continue as more colleges join the leadership of Columbia University in protest to stop the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Tear gas, water cannons, and rubber bullets have all been fired at student protesters across the United States.
No sooner had the student protests begun than many on the American political right embarked on an aggressive campaign to silence pro-Palestinian rhetoric.
It is worth noting that mainstream media and politicians have been united in their opposition to these protests, with many calling for their arrest. They claimed to be disorderly, disruptive, intimidating students and, most pointedly, to be “anti-Semites,” a term regularly used when America’s unconditional support for Israel is called into question.
Peaceful student demonstrators were portrayed by armed police and US media as “perpetrators” deserving of a “crackdown,” and students were attacked on this basis without any evidence being provided.
Hypocrisy and double standards Freedom of expression is mine but not yours.
Students, demonstrators, and pro-Palestinian organizations have faced a massive wave of censorship since October 7. In the United States of America and some countries in Europe, pro-Palestinian groups have been banned from university campuses, pro-Palestinian students have been blacklisted, job offers have been canceled, and university presidents have lost their jobs for defending the rights of pro-Palestinian students.
The Vienna Declaration recognizes that “everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, expression and religion.”
Despite this, in recent months, we have witnessed inconsistency and hypocrisy when it comes to freedom of expression in the context of supporting the Palestinian cause, supporting the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people, and stopping the genocide in Gaza committed by the Israeli military machine.
As the world watches in horror as footage shows US police brutally suppressing student protests, it becomes painfully clear that America’s embrace of free speech is a sham.
This horrific display of state-sponsored violence exposes the hypocrisy of a nation that prides itself on democracy while trampling on the very principles it claims to uphold.
We at the Shield Organization call for respecting students’ rights to opinion and expression.
We condemn the use of batons to silence voices opposing the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, which was subjected to the most brutal aggression ever witnessed in contemporary history so far, and not to muzzle the voices.
The partners of genocide are systematically using the weapon of “anti-Semitism” to silence voices opposing Israeli aggression and to muzzle voices to cover up their complicity and their great moral bankruptcy in the Holocaust of the century in the Gaza Strip.
Freedom of opinion and expression is a human right guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Brussels – International Shield Organization
