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 Palestine Update 581 : Special Edition

Opinion

 Halt Twitter censorship
Readers of Palestine Chronicle were shaken by Twitter’s decision to lock the Twitter account of Ramzy Baroud. Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times and former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera online.

Baroud is the author of six books and a contributor to many others; his latest volume, co-edited with Ilan Pappe is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out”. His books are translated to many languages including French, Turkish, Arabic, Korean, Malayalam, among others.

Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times and former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera online. Baroud taught mass communication at Australia’s Curtin University of Technology, Malaysia Campus. Baroud also served as head of Aljazeera.net English’s Research and Studies department.

Defending and respecting the user’s voice is one of our core values, Twitter claims. In actual fact, Twitter does the contrary. Twitter has shown bias and has abandoned transparency when it came to Israel’s killings in Gaza which Baroud exposed with irrefutable evidence. This is double-speak and global citizens must claim their right to fair and free information.

Please read and disseminate this information widely.

Ranjan Solomon 


Twitter locks account of Palestine Chronicle’s Ramzy Baroud 

The social media platform Twitter has blocked the account of Palestinian journalist and author, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, claiming that his posts about the Israeli war on the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have ‘violated the rules’ of the company.

It is the first time that Baroud, a respected Palestinian academic, author of several books and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle, is blocked from using the popular platform.

Baroud’s last tweet was a video compilation produced by the Palestine Chronicle showing images and information about the three Palestinians killed in Nablus in an Israeli military raid on Tuesday. The video was a newsreel that had no violent or bloody images.

Like many other Palestinian content producers, Baroud has been active on social media sharing news and analysis about the deadly Israeli war on Gaza, which resulted in the killing of over 40 Palestinians, including 15 children.

Reacting to Twitter’s decision to lock his account, Baroud said: “They want us completely gone, muted, and erased.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/twitter-locks-account-of-palestine-chronicles-editor-dr-ramzy-baroud/