TikTok has permanently banned Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda, whose documentary It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m still alive won multiple awards and broke millions of hearts. She had more than 1.4m followers on the platform.
The deletion is another assault on decency in the app’s war on Palestinian and pro-Palestinian speech. Thousands of creators have seen their content shadowbanned, while even the word ‘Zionist’ is treated as hate speech. TikTok has installed Israeli cyberspies to run the programme since the Israel-fanatic Ellison billionaires bought it, hiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Owda announced the censorship, which follows repeated ‘restriction’ attacks, in a video via the ‘Pulse of Palestine’ account. She attributed the decision to a speech by Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu described the TikTok purchase as the “most important” “battlefield” in Israel’s attempts to sanitise its evil, bloodstained image. Not just an image, but a reality:
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The enemy of decency has also planned ahead to try to keep Owda’s reporting hidden. The Palestinian-created UpScrolled app is at the top of international app charts as users abandon TikTok’s corrupt cover-up — but the occupation has created dozens of ‘Bisan Owda’ accounts in an attempt to prevent users finding the real Owda on UpScrolled or even identifying whether she has one there yet:
Skwawkbox is trying to find the real one and will let readers know. Israel has murdered hundreds of journalists and their families. It must not be allowed to silence Bisan Owda.
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By Skwawkbox
This post was originally published on Canary.