Shadowbanned

Recently I got shadowbanned again by Instagram (the 6th time in 2024, at the very least) for speaking against genocide.

But this time around, I thought instead of ineffectively keep posting on Instagram to only 10% of my normal views, I should collect everything and write it here on WordPress-powered blog (and then post the link to Instagram).

Will it work, and can it bypass the censorship? If you’re reading this right now, chances are it works, as it appears on your stories. Anyway, here are the things that happened during my shadowban:

  1. Jordana Cutler, Meta’s policy chief on Israel-Palestine issues (overseeing Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads), happens to be the Public Policy director for Israel and the Jewish diaspora. As a result, as BBC investigation confirmed, Meta has restricted Palestinian news outlets since October 2023, not to mention shadowbanning accounts that post about the genocide that would make Israel look bad.
  2. BBC Middle East editor Raffi Berg is an openly Netanyahu fan-boy, whose book on Israel was endorsed by Netanyahu himself. Every single news about Israel Palestine on BBC must be approved by him, that’s why the BBC is incredibly biased on supporting Israel’s genocide.
  3. Israeli spy Elizabeth Tsurkov revealed that 12 Syrian “rebel groups” were directly funded by Israel. Israel isn’t even hiding it, with defense minister Israel Katz literally claimed “… we toppled the Assad regime in Syria.”
  4. Since the [horrible] Assad regime was toppled by the coalition of US-Israel-Turkey, the [even worse] Israel regime bombed Syria 800 times in a week and annexed land 3x the size of Gaza in a coordinated move: US-backed “rebel group” HTS cleared the path, and then Israel march forward without any resistance from HTS (the suppposedly new de facto ruler in Syria).
  5. The head of HTS, Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani, was an ISIS and Al-Qaeda fighter. HTS itself is a re-branding from Jabhat al-Nusra (which is Al Qaeda in Syria). The Western media are trying to re-label him by saying he’s “reinvented” himself from Jihadist to revolutionary leader, in order to hide the tracks. But the truth cannot be clearer than this: The US-and-Israeli-backed-group consist of al-Nusra-ISIS fighters. That should give you a massive clue about whose attack dog al-Nusra-ISIS really is. Al-Jolani also appoints former al-Nusra-ISIS people in Syrian government positions, including Anas Khattab as head of intelligence.
  6. After Assad regime was toppled, the gas pipeline project from Qatar to Turkey (via Syria) will likely to resume. Never trust Erdogan whenever he said any anti-Israel PR stunt. In fact, his son Burak Erdogan was revealed to have traded with Israel during the ongoing genocide.
  7. French journalist Marine Vlahovic was found dead, whilst making a documentary about Gaza. This is of course on top of the 5 journalist killed last week in Gaza, or the total of 201 journalists killed. If the truth is not your enemy, why kill the truth messengers?
  8. Israel went from denying that it attacked a hospital (remember the arguments on 17 October 2023 over the attack on Al-Ahli hospital?) to destroying the entire Gaza healthcare system in a year without consequences and setting the last hospital standing – Kamal Adwan Hospital – on fire. And Zionist supporters went from gaslighting to total silence over this issue.
  9. Zionist supporters are now starting to try to distance themselves from the genocide by saying “this is not my Zionism.” Firstly, this is still gaslighting because they can see what’s happening (and don’t want to be associated with it), but yet still support the perpetrator and refuse to acknowledge that it is happening. Secondly, this is like saying “this is not my colonialism”, which implies that there is a good version of colonialism project. Colonialism is colonialism, it involve stealing the native’s land, subject them to brutal control (and/or extermination), and robbing everything in the land. And if you try to justify it by using religion, it is called religious extremism. Thirdly, this is an attempt to whitewashing their crimes, at par with saying the “conflict” is “complicated” (it’s really not, Zionism is just another label for settler-colonialism, planned since 1917 and executed since 1948), or try to portray this as a “war” implying that both sides have equal power (while the fact is one side is a guerilla group, and the other side receive billions of dollars of funding, weapons supplies from US and EU, media control, protected by veto power and no enforcement over the ICJ and ICC war crime sentences).
  10. Right now Israel is still destroying and torturing Gaza with impunity, repeatedly violating the ceasefire in Lebanon, and occupying Syria at the same time. But but but, what about Khamas? At this Greater Israel expansion period, and after all the mounting evidence of what Israel have done right in front of our eyes for more than a year, if you still think that this is about Hamas and what happened on 7 October 2023, you’re fucking hopeless.

Censor this, Jordana Cutler.