Richard Medhurst, Leading Gaza Reporter, Arrested and Charged with 'Terrorism' in European Crackdown
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As pro-Palestine journalists face arrest, raids, and terror charges in Europe, the case of Richard Medhurst reveals how far Western governments are willing to go to silence dissent., Austria, Free speech Europe, free speech under threat, Hamas, journalist targeted for reporting, media repression europe, palestine activism crackdown, press freedom, pro-palestine censorship, richard medhurst, richard medhurst arrest, richard medhurst terrorism act,

“The Vienna state prosecutor accuses me of being a Hamas member, specifically the military wing Izzal Din Qassam Brigades, since at least July 2024 and working to ‘destroy Israel and establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate,’” he stated.

What an absurdly baseless accusation

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    38·
    9 days ago

    And no mainstream media publication is going to say a word about this. They are not going to accuse Austria of suppressing free speech by targeting journalists (as they 100% would if this happened in a country like Russia or China), they are not going to call them authoritarian, repressive, dictatorship or totalitarian. There will simply be crickets, or if they do write anything it will be to take the side of the state and pile on to the slander against Richard calling him a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer.

    As we have seen with the whole USAID saga now, there is no such thing as “independent media” in the West, at least not in the mainstream. They are all funded by Zionist billionaires, tech oligarchs, government agencies and shady NGOs. And the German language media are some of the worst in the world…the shit i have to read and hear every day from them makes me wish i didn’t speak German.

    • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
      20·
      9 days ago

      I highly doubt that the western media will even criticize Austria because of this. They’ll likely just slander him as a Russian bot or Hamas sympathizer or some racist shit.

      • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        14·
        8 days ago

        The western media is in full support of what’s happening here I imagine. They might slander him if this news becomes mainstream, but more likely they will ignore it entirely. I can’t recall reading anything in the MSM about Ali Abunimah’s arrest.

        • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          15·
          8 days ago

          Uncountable journalists have been killed in Israeli bombings and the “journalists” have not even pretended to give a shit about it. Western mainstream media does not have an honest bone in its body.

    • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      They are not going to accuse Austria of suppressing free speech by targeting journalists (as they 100% would if this happened in a country like Russia or China), they are not going to call them authoritarian, repressive, dictatorship or totalitarian.

      Precisely. The USA is waging a second cold war and the parallels to the first can be easily drawn.

      During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.