BRUTAL Crackdown On Gaza Protests Exposes 'Free Speech' Hypocrites

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  • What a bunch of raging hypocrites.
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  • @OwenJonesTalks
    @OwenJonesTalks  Місяць тому +233

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    • @mar-hs4ql
      @mar-hs4ql Місяць тому +7

      Free peach hypocrites in WC

    • @user-ft5vq1ki9y
      @user-ft5vq1ki9y Місяць тому +2

      @@mar-hs4ql That's not what is actually happening. media is pushing an agenda and Owen being the fool he is following. Ever notice how he only talks about one side only but yet he's an "activist". Activist of Hypocrisy, True activists don't pick a side and instead they call out the injustice.

    • @tonypate9174
      @tonypate9174 Місяць тому +2

      And still OWEN FOR PALESTINE is down the Hunky Chunky Bunker in the UK ....not flying high and proud ....Sugar plum high and proud ....

    • @briannec2016
      @briannec2016 Місяць тому +2

      Sorry, but it's you-VAL-dee

    • @JamesDonaldson-yu3zz
      @JamesDonaldson-yu3zz Місяць тому +2

      @@Captain_tubs You are still here, aren't you?

  • @petermcgowan79
    @petermcgowan79 Місяць тому +1555

    The greatest democracy in the world, the land of the free, what a joke 😂

    • @tomtheeagle1
      @tomtheeagle1 Місяць тому +25

      Outrageous canards!

    • @meankitten101
      @meankitten101 Місяць тому +8

      Yes Yemen is better. Syria? Iran? Ha!!

    • @hanahana6846
      @hanahana6846 Місяць тому +173

      @@meankitten101 Those countries did not wage wars in the name of "democracy and human rights"

    • @moe3235
      @moe3235 Місяць тому

      Hey, as long as the west gets to pillage and plunder all the resources and keep everyone else around the world on the brink of famine, wHaT's wRoNg WiTh ThAt?
      All while they throw away whole meals instead of feeding the homeless person sleeping on their steps--the "morally superior and democratic" west 😇👍

    • @moe3235
      @moe3235 Місяць тому

      Hey, as long as the west gets to pillage and plunder all the resources and keep everyone else around the world on the brink of famine, wHaT's wRoNg WiTh ThAt?
      All while they throw away whole meals instead of feeding the homeless person sleeping on their steps--the "morally superior and democratic" west 😇👍

  • @PC-ONE
    @PC-ONE Місяць тому +1143

    Zionizm is the religion of the western leaders. Criticizing Israël is considered as a blasphemy.

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 Місяць тому +145

      Money is their religion and billionaires are their high priests.

    • @charlesfentules
      @charlesfentules Місяць тому +4

      now what ?

    • @azalia423
      @azalia423 Місяць тому

      @@charlesfentules Stop voting for Aipac Zombies in Congress, Senate, and President.

    • @aye3678
      @aye3678 Місяць тому +88

      "Do not ask what your country can do for you.
      Ask what your country can do for Israel."

    • @lydiamilanovic1761
      @lydiamilanovic1761 Місяць тому +9

      ​@@aye3678😂😂

  • @KK-cs6ou
    @KK-cs6ou Місяць тому +485

    What I don’t understand is why American government is behaving like Israel is its 51st state ?

    • @seekingabsolution1907
      @seekingabsolution1907 Місяць тому

      Israel is a settler colony that relies on American support for its existence. A goodly portion of Israeli politicians are american citizens, Israel functions as a tool for the US to start wars in the middle east when it doesnt want to get its own hands dirty. This lets it continue to have access to the resources in the region. It is all about profits.

    • @justanaquarius320
      @justanaquarius320 Місяць тому +71

      America of Israel, that's why

    • @paulorocky
      @paulorocky Місяць тому +44

      Because it is

    • @jameswhite3415
      @jameswhite3415 Місяць тому

      Rapture is the whole reason we have over 40% if the global military budget. We can pledge alliance to the forces of darkness.

    • @tugbaozkan7803
      @tugbaozkan7803 Місяць тому +8

      I guess there is a religious reason 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @loo6837
    @loo6837 Місяць тому +268

    US congress should stop worrying about Chinese minority ownership of TikTok, and focus on banning Israeli complete ownership of US government.

    • @coleengoodell7523
      @coleengoodell7523 Місяць тому +3

      No kidding!

    • @user-em3vl6li5w
      @user-em3vl6li5w Місяць тому

      Tik Tok is a threat to this American administration. Young people are using the facility to share info,. Can’t be having that in democratic America.

    • @valeriewedel2775
      @valeriewedel2775 Місяць тому

      Honestly, the politicians banning TikTok are the same ones supporting genocide. They fear TikTok. The supposed fear of data breaches is a pile of steaming bs. America has become a fascists state. I thought electing Biden would heal that but alas, genocide Joe leads the charge to burn our constitution.
      But... it is not over til it is over. We are working fir change and will keep going.

    • @uktea9610
      @uktea9610 Місяць тому

      They will lose $$$$ if they do this. Legal bribery. Also blackmail????

    • @benik3297
      @benik3297 Місяць тому +1

      how about YT censorship

  • @epaki
    @epaki Місяць тому +342

    Gaza is the litmus paper test for Western exceptionalism

    • @kinetic3971
      @kinetic3971 Місяць тому +9

      It really is at this point. lol

    • @rosestewart1606
      @rosestewart1606 Місяць тому +18

      It really is. I could never vote for someone who was pro-genocide...ever. What they do right now will determine their future success for many voters

    • @monicacarolina6480
      @monicacarolina6480 Місяць тому

      No it's not

    • @Nipiniponipi
      @Nipiniponipi Місяць тому +9

      @@monicacarolina6480 already failed the test

    • @deep_cuts2019
      @deep_cuts2019 Місяць тому

      Seems the jig is up

  • @brucelee-hl8zn
    @brucelee-hl8zn Місяць тому +858

    Israel has the right to defend itself against Free Speech.

    • @massford2767
      @massford2767 Місяць тому +61

      Lol

    • @caramelbilquees
      @caramelbilquees Місяць тому +67

      Stop people from telling the truth more like and to carry on their wrongdoings without attention and criticism

    • @HarrySmith-hr2iv
      @HarrySmith-hr2iv Місяць тому

      Israel has the right to say their sh!t doesn't stInk. So they tell me.

    • @nottheweather438
      @nottheweather438 Місяць тому +14

      😂👍

    • @colinsixhitter3303
      @colinsixhitter3303 Місяць тому +33

      Net N Yahoo demanded a crack down and what he wants he gets, he has paid for it after all.

  • @polreamonn
    @polreamonn Місяць тому +112

    Texas police weren't as quick to take action against the school shooters as they were with these students.

    • @JamesDonaldson-yu3zz
      @JamesDonaldson-yu3zz Місяць тому +11

      Neither they are quick to do anything about the drug dealers!

    • @evanr1784
      @evanr1784 Місяць тому +12

      They just arrest normal unarmed citizens who drive 5 miles over the limit or have a burned out taillight .
      Because of freedom you know ​@JamesDonaldson-yu3zz

    • @polreamonn
      @polreamonn Місяць тому +3

      @@JamesDonaldson-yu3zz Maybe drug dealers at least serve a purpose.

    • @Athanatoi
      @Athanatoi Місяць тому +1

      The New World Order turned the whole earth into a prison planet.

    • @eagle-me7sn
      @eagle-me7sn Місяць тому

      proof?

  • @lynnhickinbotham3784
    @lynnhickinbotham3784 Місяць тому +155

    Shame on anyone turning a blind eye to this genocide

    • @nurulamalhishamudin811
      @nurulamalhishamudin811 Місяць тому +7

      ​@@CW-bw7pv because america does not give sudan billions yearly.

    • @user-yn1gl4sc3w
      @user-yn1gl4sc3w Місяць тому +3

      Shame on anyone who is turning a blind eye on what Hamas is doing!

    • @dylancummings3011
      @dylancummings3011 Місяць тому

      ⁠@@user-yn1gl4sc3wall anyone can see is you bombing hospitals and civilians.

    • @damirage2010
      @damirage2010 Місяць тому

      We dont see what they are doing we see what criminals are doing go sleep​@@user-yn1gl4sc3w

    • @PROGRESS4eva
      @PROGRESS4eva Місяць тому +9

      ​@@user-yn1gl4sc3whamas didn't kill 30,000 and counting..try again!

  • @ItsukaShimotsuki
    @ItsukaShimotsuki Місяць тому +504

    "Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid?What would I do if my country was committing genocide?'
    The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."

    • @falconiusazurius5572
      @falconiusazurius5572 Місяць тому

      Child trafficking is a form of slavery that is happening in your lifetime. The biggest supporters of this type of slavery happen to be the leadership of the West.
      Any ideas on what to do?

    • @tedmaloof234
      @tedmaloof234 Місяць тому +70

      Aaron Bushnell. Remember his name.

    • @ItsukaShimotsuki
      @ItsukaShimotsuki Місяць тому +18

      @@tedmaloof234 I posted another comment with his name on.
      With yt nowadays you never know...

    • @MT-vi4le
      @MT-vi4le Місяць тому +15

      Always did,remember natives and colonizers 😢

    • @freegedankenzurbaukunst5613
      @freegedankenzurbaukunst5613 Місяць тому +33

      @@tedmaloof234 Rachel Corrie . Remember her name , too

  • @kerlyenai
    @kerlyenai Місяць тому +502

    It's encouraging to see so many people saying that enough is enough with the blind support for a genocidal regime but it is also frightening to see how much these brave people are being repressed.

    • @guillaumelane3374
      @guillaumelane3374 Місяць тому +38

      Was thinking the same thing. It's baffling that one even has to be brave to speak out against genocide. I honestly thought we were past that as a civilisation. I mean wtf. Why do we even have to speak out against genocide is beyond me.

    • @guillaumelane3374
      @guillaumelane3374 Місяць тому +4

      @@sianefer-ptah1258 I'm sorry to hear mate. Where you from?

    • @MusMasi
      @MusMasi Місяць тому +2

      @@guillaumelane3374 nothing new.

  • @twilajohnson2313
    @twilajohnson2313 Місяць тому +85

    “Free speech” only means the speech that they like 🤷🏾‍♀️ because they sure didn’t want BLM to have free speech either

    • @nonyabusiness4151
      @nonyabusiness4151 Місяць тому

      They stood by and let BLM loot and riot. If BLM had been against their agenda, they would have used live rounds.

    • @coleengoodell7523
      @coleengoodell7523 Місяць тому +1

      Yep

    • @nonyabusiness4151
      @nonyabusiness4151 Місяць тому +1

      Lol, I commented here before...

    • @banonKING
      @banonKING Місяць тому +2

      In America, it's always telling who gets to demonstrate for free speech and who can't.

    • @derekspitz9225
      @derekspitz9225 Місяць тому

      You don't know what free speech is do you?

  • @vaclavkubicek2970
    @vaclavkubicek2970 Місяць тому +82

    I am very proud of these young people for not accepting lies and injustice 🇵🇸❤️

  • @TheLuminousOne
    @TheLuminousOne Місяць тому +173

    And they tell us we live in a free and democratic society with moral values. Well, pull back the curtain just a little and you'll see the hideous truth.

  • @GScully42
    @GScully42 Місяць тому +578

    They are now trying to say protesting is violence, utterly ridicules.

    • @guessundheit6494
      @guessundheit6494 Місяць тому

      Rghit wing governments have been doing that since environmentalism became an issue in the 1980s, labelling sign carriers as criminals without need for a trial.

    • @1seafisher
      @1seafisher Місяць тому +4

      It's that one chant from the river ! If you chant it israels got yah ! I would of thought they'd of worked it out by now

    • @checo8187
      @checo8187 Місяць тому +25

      @GScully42 They are calling any criticism “ violence “ “antisemitic”

    • @user-kf3rm3gd5j
      @user-kf3rm3gd5j Місяць тому

      They will search for anything they can to justify the continued behavior of Israel.

    • @lesleywild8706
      @lesleywild8706 Місяць тому +2

      @GScully42 The protests could be made outside their own front doors - there isn't the need to make the country pay for policing constant parades - that amounts to being bullish.

  • @SarahYounes-il9gk
    @SarahYounes-il9gk Місяць тому +121

    Stop genocide ! Free Gaza! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

    • @monicacarolina6480
      @monicacarolina6480 Місяць тому

      genocide
      noun [ C/U ]
      US /ˈdʒen·əˌsɑɪd/
      the intentional killing of all of the people of a nation, religion, or racial group
      LOL, the number of Arabs in Gaza MULTIPLIED in 20 years. Get a life, boo boo

  • @PaulStringini
    @PaulStringini Місяць тому +177

    Free speech warrior here. From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.

    • @jrhartley4819
      @jrhartley4819 Місяць тому +4

      Which river? And where should the Israelis go?

    • @mejust8392
      @mejust8392 Місяць тому

      @@jrhartley4819 Imported from europe after ww2, back to wherever hole in europe they came from.

    • @user-ui2xf9jc8z
      @user-ui2xf9jc8z Місяць тому

      Netanyahu is the 47th president of the USA, Joe Biden is just a puppet.

    • @Deniz55995
      @Deniz55995 Місяць тому

      ​@@jrhartley4819 Mexico

    • @steveosborne1239
      @steveosborne1239 Місяць тому

      Statements Like that incite terroist to Genocide . their mantra that you don't understand what it means ?? all out murder .is that what you want.??

  • @mikofi
    @mikofi Місяць тому +247

    Free speech should be the right for everyone. Period.

    • @checo8187
      @checo8187 Місяць тому +24

      Its free as long as it doesn’t criticize the “chosen” demons

    • @leodoron6473
      @leodoron6473 Місяць тому

      Violent rioting is not free speech

    • @monicacarolina6480
      @monicacarolina6480 Місяць тому

      Tell that the people of Iran. a young rapper will be killed this week because he rapped about his terrible regime. HYPOCRITE

    • @jelle6325
      @jelle6325 Місяць тому

      Based and true.

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 Місяць тому

      @@checo8187 no need to go there

  • @haaaaaay
    @haaaaaay Місяць тому +222

    Free speech unless its something we don't agree with

    • @garrett2439
      @garrett2439 Місяць тому +10

      To quote a McDonalds executive who was trying to buy off two activist leaders with a bag of money: "free speech is great.... depending on what you say".

    • @adrianwilkes3300
      @adrianwilkes3300 Місяць тому +6

      100% correct and both sides in politics are guilty of this double standard.

    • @user-kz3tx2tb6y
      @user-kz3tx2tb6y Місяць тому

      @@adrianwilkes3300citation

    • @Blue5890
      @Blue5890 Місяць тому

      😂😂😂​@@garrett2439

  • @12q8
    @12q8 Місяць тому +31

    I have seen things from _months ago_ that I missed that I will never unsee.
    The Palestinian diplomat, Hussam Zomlot, had to see his young niece’s mutilated body thrown so hard from an airstrike it was hanging from a nearby building. She was 7yo.
    I saw that picture, uncensored, just last week.
    All we did is see what the Palestinians have been seeing daily for months now.

    • @monicacarolina6480
      @monicacarolina6480 Місяць тому

      I saw footage broadcasted by your beloved Hamas killing civilians and young people at a festival. Yung people who before 7th of October supported Arabs in Gaza.
      big shame on you

  • @izzynut
    @izzynut Місяць тому +71

    Since when is Standing up for human rights and dignity equal to antisemitism??

    • @facehugger3
      @facehugger3 Місяць тому

      “The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world”
      Martin Luther King Junior

    • @Not_quitzable
      @Not_quitzable Місяць тому

      @@facehugger3ok and?

    • @San_Vito
      @San_Vito Місяць тому

      @@facehugger3 You didn't answer the question.

    • @scottewing2031
      @scottewing2031 Місяць тому

      @@facehugger3 "Since when is Standing up for human rights and dignity equal to antisemitism??" You didn't answer the question.

  • @TheRamiYT
    @TheRamiYT Місяць тому +192

    "You can clamp down on these protests, guys, BUT this isn't a sign of strength, it's a sign of weakness" GOLD ❤

    • @iamagirl9938
      @iamagirl9938 Місяць тому +15

      I agree, even after the events of yesterday we're going back again today. They can arrest dozens of us, but we'll just come back in hundreds or thousands.

  • @skyplanet9858
    @skyplanet9858 Місяць тому +204

    I never thought I'd witness this happening. My Russian friends in Russia and poking fun of me . When the riot police stormed the Russian universities and arrested students, I told everyone , in a heated debate, this will never happen here. How stupid and naive I am.

    • @iamagirl9938
      @iamagirl9938 Місяць тому +25

      It's a tough pill to swallow for sure. Never say never.

    • @garrett2439
      @garrett2439 Місяць тому +57

      You're also seemingly ignorant of history. That sort of stuff has been happening throughout US history, it's not even close to new.

    • @Tomartyr
      @Tomartyr Місяць тому +30

      Happens all the time here, we just paint over it every five years with a new Democratically Elected™ leader

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 Місяць тому +7

      ​@@Tomartyrwell said

    • @user-kf3rm3gd5j
      @user-kf3rm3gd5j Місяць тому

      To be fair, we don't try to publicize the control Israel has over us. It's not in any of the brochures on the land of the free.

  • @aye3678
    @aye3678 Місяць тому +39

    "Do not ask what your country can do for you.
    Ask what your country can do for Israel."

  • @1BigCREE1Redtail
    @1BigCREE1Redtail Місяць тому +422

    These police get 'trained' in 'israel'. Yes folks!!

    • @cuddlymike
      @cuddlymike Місяць тому +26

      Exactly, you can see where the power lies

    • @justiceleague007
      @justiceleague007 Місяць тому +15

      Totally 👍🏼

    • @Sapper201D
      @Sapper201D Місяць тому +16

      The doctrine is shared. The training is here.

    • @kummiekins
      @kummiekins Місяць тому +7

      Their training comes with a brown paper bag.

    • @wowwee0
      @wowwee0 Місяць тому +25

      100%. Israel uses Palestinians to test modern, urban combat techniques that are used in training American law enforcement. Palestinians are the test subjects. But it doesn't stop there.

  • @johnbhoy2489
    @johnbhoy2489 Місяць тому +313

    I hope the people rise against this dictatorship

  • @user-zb4no6jw7u
    @user-zb4no6jw7u Місяць тому +59

    The supreme law of the land is "you shall not say anything bad about Israel" amen!

  • @hananezehrouni1167
    @hananezehrouni1167 Місяць тому +32

    Owen Jones. A name I will always remember as the voice of humaity and justice. Thank you

    • @user-yn1gl4sc3w
      @user-yn1gl4sc3w Місяць тому

      Wow. So blind-sighted. Can`t even spell humanity.

  • @MrquratUlain-ro5lq
    @MrquratUlain-ro5lq Місяць тому +381

    Stop genocide free Gaza free Palestine from Israeli occupation prayers for Palestine

    • @Candyfloss119
      @Candyfloss119 Місяць тому +31

      Solidarity from Ireland 🇮🇪💚🇵🇸✌️

    • @MrquratUlain-ro5lq
      @MrquratUlain-ro5lq Місяць тому +15

      @@Candyfloss119 thank you respect for you
      from Pakistan

    • @Candyfloss119
      @Candyfloss119 Місяць тому +9

      @@MrquratUlain-ro5lq 💚🇮🇪

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 Місяць тому +6

      Let's hope that if Palestine is free, it doesn't end up with a bad government

    • @Svea1707
      @Svea1707 Місяць тому +11

      ​@@minestar2247 Let's just hope that when Palestine is finally free, the Israhelli occupation on their land doesn't return, ever.

  • @abdulahmad5657
    @abdulahmad5657 Місяць тому +261

    I am embarrassed to be living in this state, let alone country. We will never forget this. FREE PALESTINE

    • @user-kf3rm3gd5j
      @user-kf3rm3gd5j Місяць тому +10

      You have no choice. You have few to no political options from either side of the isle that wouldn't sell out the US for Israel. This has been very educational as a civics lesson for all Americans who didn't know or want to believe this.

    • @IAMTHESWORDtheLAMBHASDIED
      @IAMTHESWORDtheLAMBHASDIED Місяць тому

      @@leodoron6473 or I could send you there.

    • @sophiehenderson8059
      @sophiehenderson8059 Місяць тому +10

      ​@@leodoron6473it seems you're the one who should be going!

    • @user-kf3rm3gd5j
      @user-kf3rm3gd5j Місяць тому +10

      @@sophiehenderson8059 he knows what the IDF is likely to do to any non Israeli. But he will state to his end that they are not a terrorist organization.

    • @559mcfadden
      @559mcfadden Місяць тому +5

      Door is open pal. Nobody forcing you to stay. Turns out they have vacancies in Gaza

  • @user-op5si6eg3v
    @user-op5si6eg3v Місяць тому +28

    Historically bringing in the police to stop protests at Universities is a horrible idea. The presence of police ( especially USA police who are in full military gear) changes peaceful protest to tense and adversarial...seen it happen. It radicalises students who might never have joined protests.

  • @kr902
    @kr902 Місяць тому +25

    Attacking and repressing the right for free speech will not go down well.

  • @anthonybaiocchi3028
    @anthonybaiocchi3028 Місяць тому +139

    Huge news folks! Two Australian universities joined this morning, and another in France later in the day. This is gonna go global. Hopefully the UK or Canada next!!! WHOOP WHOOP!!!!

    • @bvanzetti2755
      @bvanzetti2755 Місяць тому

      Getting to look like the movement to stop the destruction of Vietnam.

    • @ThunderDog97
      @ThunderDog97 Місяць тому +8

      Great News! Free Palestine!

    • @rosestewart1606
      @rosestewart1606 Місяць тому +16

      I'm an alumni of 2 universities, and there are many more like me who are watching. If this comes to either of mine I'll be on the side of the students

    • @monicacarolina6480
      @monicacarolina6480 Місяць тому

      😂😂 You are so pathetic

    • @JessicaDainese
      @JessicaDainese Місяць тому +4

      In Italy too. La Sapienza is the biggest I think.

  • @document6
    @document6 Місяць тому +373

    Just a reminder that the FIRST Amendment enshrines the right to PEACEABLY ASSEMBLE
    It’s laughable that this is happening and horrifying

    • @Irishtradchannel
      @Irishtradchannel Місяць тому +5

      They are not peacefully assembling though.

    • @PanikaMCD
      @PanikaMCD Місяць тому +64

      the first amendment doesn’t have “peaceably” in it, but the lack of peace during those protests was caused by law enforcement rather than students. thank you for your deep derp.

    • @ShankarSivarajan
      @ShankarSivarajan Місяць тому +7

      @@PanikaMCD Are you looking at some kind of abridged version?

    • @musharafhussain2316
      @musharafhussain2316 Місяць тому +18

      ​@@Irishtradchannel how did you work that out?

    • @iamagirl9938
      @iamagirl9938 Місяць тому +63

      @@Irishtradchannel Do you want to know what our plan for the day was at UT? We had planned a walkout which would then be followed by a few guest speakers, a study break, and a pizza handout. That was what we had planned. Pretty peaceful if you ask me. You wanna know when it turned violent? When the police who are quite literally supposed to protect us began tackling us, arresting our peers, and threatening us with random arrests until we all left. We didn't leave. In the end, they arrested about 80 of us and ended up leaving. Today we're planning to actually protest.

  • @JillianEmerson-me8cx
    @JillianEmerson-me8cx Місяць тому +13

    Bravo to these university and college students. I am 72 years old and I applaud the young folks.

  • @adairjanney7109
    @adairjanney7109 Місяць тому +70

    I am hardcore right wing and 100% agree, what hypocrites and cowards

  • @layersofsnark6347
    @layersofsnark6347 Місяць тому +178

    As I said before, free speech is a right. It's not something you "bestow" on anyone. You either have it or you don't and if you don't, you do it anyway.

    • @12q8
      @12q8 Місяць тому

      The state, having a monopoly on power, can betray its job of ensuring the right the people trusted it to protect.
      This is another moment in history where people have to enforce their right of free speech despite the state.

    • @AichaGwinner
      @AichaGwinner Місяць тому

      If you don't have it you live in a dictature?

    • @cocksmoocher2024
      @cocksmoocher2024 Місяць тому

      too bad you can't break the law just for free speech!!!!!

  • @ItsukaShimotsuki
    @ItsukaShimotsuki Місяць тому +117

    Many of us like to ask ourselves, "What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?"
    The answer is, you're doing it. Right now.
    - Aaron Bushnell.

  • @waltmccarthy9837
    @waltmccarthy9837 Місяць тому +12

    I’ve always hated hypocrisy so it’s demoralizing that in America it seems to surround me.

  • @mobsiesixsixsix9785
    @mobsiesixsixsix9785 Місяць тому +9

    If anyone ever decided to increase anti semitism they need look no further than Israel for guidance.

  • @thomaspitto5663
    @thomaspitto5663 Місяць тому +95

    America, the land of the free...... what a sad joke.......

  • @derektoyne2729
    @derektoyne2729 Місяць тому +64

    Today Owen I was listening to a professor in Australia who was a student in the 60s in America protesting against the Vietnam war and he said the same thing happened then. The universities overreacted by bringing in armed police and the result those in charge became history. So stick to your principles and don't give up as you the future of America.

  • @user-cb6jj6nm3d
    @user-cb6jj6nm3d Місяць тому +27

    Barbarism on loose against free speech, a very fundamental human value.

  • @mozartsbumbumsrus7750
    @mozartsbumbumsrus7750 Місяць тому +37

    I'm a San Franciscan watching from London and Stockholm. I avoided Vietnam because I refused to participate. History is repeating yet again.

  • @alexsf4248
    @alexsf4248 Місяць тому +113

    The Whole World is Watching 🙏

  • @thesewildtimes
    @thesewildtimes Місяць тому +38

    They are arresting medics and academics as well. A 50+ year old female Chair of Philosophy has just been arrested. This is some seriously wild behaviour.

    • @Ganpignanus
      @Ganpignanus Місяць тому +3

      Insane. usa has gone mad with this zioismos influence.

  • @colingallagher1443
    @colingallagher1443 Місяць тому +16

    It’s awful how many of our elected officials are willing to tear up the First Amendment lest Israel be criticized for its war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.

  • @sakeimohammed7997
    @sakeimohammed7997 Місяць тому +37

    Now American police acting like IDF

  • @deadguy29
    @deadguy29 Місяць тому +102

    It gives hope to see that people with conscience and heart all across the US are protesting against war crimes and injustice.

    • @adrianwilkes3300
      @adrianwilkes3300 Місяць тому

      well this one anyway. Im sure there will be something else to protest about soon.

  • @imaneessounaini8841
    @imaneessounaini8841 Місяць тому +66

    I think I had more freedom of speech back in Morocco than I now have in the UK. Speechless :)

    • @freedomofplestaininsplesta5497
      @freedomofplestaininsplesta5497 Місяць тому +6

      I agree 💯

    • @ashiwashiwooo9368
      @ashiwashiwooo9368 Місяць тому +1

      Kayna kayna m3ak f hadi

    • @imaneessounaini8841
      @imaneessounaini8841 Місяць тому

      @@ashiwashiwooo9368 tsdmt wllah, finahia l asatir li kna kansm3ou 3la ngliz 😂 dawla 3odma motakadima, I’m so underwhelmed maimkench 🥲

    • @ashiwashiwooo9368
      @ashiwashiwooo9368 Місяць тому

      @@imaneessounaini8841 wa kayna but u know why anything to do with isr... u cant do nothing and they can do wat they want but people are starting to wake up to that now

    • @imaneessounaini8841
      @imaneessounaini8841 Місяць тому

      @@ashiwashiwooo9368 walakin bzaf dakchi khousouuusan the recent crackdown on universities f mirikan mkhi tchellel 😂

  • @paulwolf3302
    @paulwolf3302 Місяць тому +12

    Americans used to be advocates of free speech, but now we seem to believe it's more important to block disinformation. The truth is, most people just believe what they're told.

    • @TheAncientBiker
      @TheAncientBiker Місяць тому

      They advocate it but don't really believe in it or accept it. The same in UK.

  • @notjustforhackers4252
    @notjustforhackers4252 Місяць тому +10

    "'Free Speech' Hypocrites".. ahh yes, UK politicians.

  • @mamindhive
    @mamindhive Місяць тому +98

    Hypocrisy

  • @nickxcore74
    @nickxcore74 Місяць тому +9

    The Right only supports Free Speech on issues they care about, when it’s other things that they don’t support they want you silenced. The hypocrisy and double standards from these people who deem themselves champions of Free Speech is truly off the charts Owen.

  • @cherylahmat8909
    @cherylahmat8909 Місяць тому +25

    As a 60 year old grandmother, that is absolutely disgusting acions by police

  • @hobgoblin4614
    @hobgoblin4614 Місяць тому +42

    The USA. Land of the free (minus Israel - US is not free of that one) and home of the brave (be brave and give the US government your tax dollars and military support for Israel).

  • @63saruman
    @63saruman Місяць тому +43

    I would be VERY ashamed to call Abbott my governor. And are these the 'brave' cops to protected children in Uvalde?

    • @GladysAlicea
      @GladysAlicea Місяць тому

      For most part, Texas police are overweight, bullying cowards, always have been.

    • @donnavorce8856
      @donnavorce8856 Місяць тому +1

      Yes 💯

  • @bigdaddy7729
    @bigdaddy7729 Місяць тому +26

    Dint forget the biggest hypocrite who hade their career on it, the daily wire Ben Shapiro

  • @user-ks2zg9rf2v
    @user-ks2zg9rf2v Місяць тому +22

    Despite the horror , despite the crimes despite the tragedy, Gaza will stay, Gaza will live, Gaza enlightens the darkness of the World.
    Thanks Owen, thanks to the brave and free people everywhere.

  • @ladowd7059
    @ladowd7059 Місяць тому +21

    Reality is literally crumbling before my eyes

  • @redacted3740
    @redacted3740 Місяць тому +33

    I cannot steess enough how grateful I am to have a reliable source of information such as this one. Thank you Owen Jones.

  • @syourke3
    @syourke3 Місяць тому +13

    Shades of the 1960’s. Vietnam war demonstrations. Police beating up protesters.

  • @audreymcgready4329
    @audreymcgready4329 Місяць тому +27

    Israel calling the shots in America now too. Anti genocide is not antisemitism.

  • @ahmmustafakamal696
    @ahmmustafakamal696 Місяць тому +115

    So much for the free speech…….

    • @SarahKhan-os4yr
      @SarahKhan-os4yr Місяць тому

      Imagine if this was happening in a country that the US considers being against free speech? They narrative would be very different.

  • @LucynaPalmer
    @LucynaPalmer Місяць тому +61

    Mans inhumanity to Man. What is happening to this world. Owen, thank you for speaking out on the pure evil and injustice the Palestinian people are being subjected to. Your voice is heard.

    • @adrianwilkes3300
      @adrianwilkes3300 Місяць тому

      Remind me, did Hamas do anything inhumane to provoke what's going on???

    • @MusMasi
      @MusMasi Місяць тому

      it didn't start on oct the 7th

    • @user-xd2ie5qz2z
      @user-xd2ie5qz2z Місяць тому

      ​@@adrianwilkes3300No

    • @San_Vito
      @San_Vito Місяць тому

      @@adrianwilkes3300 Remind me, how many people died on each side before that attack?

  • @bilalaleemmuhammad2254
    @bilalaleemmuhammad2254 Місяць тому +13

    Free Palestine and Free Gaza From Aparthied and Genocide by The Evil Ones.

  • @deonlubbe6127
    @deonlubbe6127 Місяць тому +12

    Thank you students

  • @user-iz6sd5eo7x
    @user-iz6sd5eo7x Місяць тому +44

    Why is it only students who dare to speak their rights. Unfortunately, if people don't stand for their right, they will soon regret it.

    • @jake751
      @jake751 Місяць тому +1

      Marches across the world?

    • @jesusaaj
      @jesusaaj Місяць тому +4

      Because the rest of us have jobs that we need to survive

    • @user-iz6sd5eo7x
      @user-iz6sd5eo7x Місяць тому +4

      @jesusaaj keep your job bro, loose your voice, your tax dollars, your national health, your social security, your dignity as a human being, and more.

    • @user-xd2ie5qz2z
      @user-xd2ie5qz2z Місяць тому +1

      ​​@@jesusaajYou can still boycott goods from Israeli supporting companies like nescafe coffee or any Israeli product. There's different ways to demonstrate like give up your Saturday. I work 7 nights a week and still manage to do a little bit but I've known about this lot for decades (look into banking).

    • @rogerfaint499
      @rogerfaint499 Місяць тому

      Where are all the mainstream media journalists defending free speech? They are silent because they need their jobs? That means there never was free speech in USA in the first place because all mainstream media journalists, all tv hosts need their jobs over the so-called free speech, and fear losing their jobs if they offend their employers.

  • @akpanekpo6025
    @akpanekpo6025 Місяць тому +20

    I believe it was during your recent chat with Mehdi Hassan that you made a point which I'll never forget: that the Gaza depravities have exposed many a "liberal" for the monstrous hypocrites they are. All of which reminds me of Ralph Waldo Emerson's timeless aphorism about his apocryphal house guest: The more he proclaimed his honesty, the faster we counted the spoons.

  • @justice9221
    @justice9221 Місяць тому +11

    Free Palestine!

  • @claudemagnan4043
    @claudemagnan4043 Місяць тому +16

    Thank you Owen.
    FREE PALESTINE❤️🇵🇸🍉

  • @maryjacson5309
    @maryjacson5309 Місяць тому +16

    Democracy what a joke

  • @theguyonthecouch42024
    @theguyonthecouch42024 Місяць тому +11

    I cant sleep, and these are not my people, my heart is broken, my soul is restless, we learned nothing, only$$$

    • @FFM0594
      @FFM0594 Місяць тому +2

      Channel your energy into action, the smallest individual contribution to a cause can become a flood when a large mass participates.

  • @Solipsismic
    @Solipsismic Місяць тому +4

    These young protesters should be celebrated. The frustrating thing is that the actual genocide is being lauded but just speaking against the genocide is treated as a crime. I really don’t have much hope for this world any more 😢

  • @joe-ob3se
    @joe-ob3se Місяць тому +7

    The world is watching.

  • @peace-now
    @peace-now Місяць тому +67

    Students will always have a voice. The same happened during the Vietnam War.

    • @SavolaxMitsu
      @SavolaxMitsu Місяць тому +1

      And whole continental of Europe in 1848, Springtime of the Nations when students, workers and bourgeoisies rise against absolut monarchy.

    • @pritapp788
      @pritapp788 Місяць тому

      The boomers who protested in the 1960s have become intolerant of campus protests in 2024...

    • @karolinakuc4783
      @karolinakuc4783 Місяць тому

      ​@@SavolaxMitsuAs for 1848 it was rather revolt to fight for right to speak your native language.

    • @SavolaxMitsu
      @SavolaxMitsu Місяць тому

      @@karolinakuc4783 Is was also right to vote your goverment and constitution monarchy.

  • @razeengierdien998
    @razeengierdien998 Місяць тому +96

    Where is Bari Weiss and Bill Maher, the defenders of free speech? 🤔

    • @dftp
      @dftp Місяць тому +10

      ​@@sianefer-ptah1258Never was

    • @afridgetoofar1818
      @afridgetoofar1818 Місяць тому

      These protests reveal the hypocrisy on both sides

    • @brentoncarter4275
      @brentoncarter4275 Місяць тому +7

      @@sianefer-ptah1258 never was

    • @pritapp788
      @pritapp788 Місяць тому +2

      Or Elon Musk.

    • @rogerfaint499
      @rogerfaint499 Місяць тому +1

      Never was. Easy to make beautiful speeches about free speech but when it comes to the crunch when free speech is in peril . . . these people are often silent .

  • @kevins4936
    @kevins4936 Місяць тому +24

    Students can not protest against genocide in the land of freedom and democracy 😮

    • @monicacarolina6480
      @monicacarolina6480 Місяць тому

      genocide
      noun [ C/U ]
      US /ˈdʒen·əˌsɑɪd/
      the intentional killing of all of the people of a nation, religion, or racial group
      LOL, the number of Arabs in Gaza MULTIPLIED in 20 years. Get a life, boo boo

  • @yeshuamaitreya6954
    @yeshuamaitreya6954 Місяць тому +3

    We shouldn’t be too hard on these politicians. If they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

  • @samf.s.7731
    @samf.s.7731 Місяць тому +14

    "Free speech for me, not for thee!"

  • @HarrySmith-hr2iv
    @HarrySmith-hr2iv Місяць тому +12

    The USA First Amendment needs to be made Law here in the UK. Last summer I was arrested at King Charles 111 coronation because I wore a tee-shirt which said 'He is not my King.'

  • @grahamfigg5817
    @grahamfigg5817 Місяць тому +7

    Essentially in the US you have free speech except in respect of Israel. What a joke.

  • @scooble
    @scooble Місяць тому +2

    "Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear"
    - Nemik

  • @gillscorner794
    @gillscorner794 Місяць тому +68

    Lets hope that more of those who have remained silent so far get off the fence

  • @vondrez
    @vondrez Місяць тому +50

    Thank you Mr.Jones for being a shining light of hope in the dark and twisted world of journalism.

  • @richieroma
    @richieroma Місяць тому +4

    Suddenly the anti-woke crowd are very sensitive i.e. woke.

  • @trevorlloydevans
    @trevorlloydevans Місяць тому +5

    Owen you are brilliant!

  • @tarnopol
    @tarnopol Місяць тому +17

    Yeah, they’re complete and utter hypocrites.

  • @userlili134
    @userlili134 Місяць тому +40

    They only thing they want from their citizens is their taxes. Pay and be quite.

  • @ILoveGaza77
    @ILoveGaza77 Місяць тому +4

    In America we were never free 😢there is no such thing as Freedom of Speech. It's about Americans wake up.

  • @JoP444
    @JoP444 Місяць тому +2

    Thanks as always Owen ❤💚🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

  • @davidmcculloch8490
    @davidmcculloch8490 Місяць тому +25

    Great insight, Owen. When the boot is on the other foot... These a'holes are making Putin look like a saint.

    • @paulstefanovich5217
      @paulstefanovich5217 Місяць тому +1

      Was nothing ever wrong with Putin

    • @user-yn1gl4sc3w
      @user-yn1gl4sc3w Місяць тому +1

      @@paulstefanovich5217 You must have been living in a hole for decades.

  • @fundidoarrojo269
    @fundidoarrojo269 Місяць тому +59

    "Land of the Free"...

  • @AvelierPlays
    @AvelierPlays Місяць тому +14

    Time for some “Freedom” and “Democracy” for the United States.
    The US Regime needs to be changed, immediately.

  • @ball3rinaPJK
    @ball3rinaPJK Місяць тому +2

    Well said Owen! The world is with you in support of free speech and Palestine in solidarity ✊💪

  • @chineduadolphemezie855
    @chineduadolphemezie855 Місяць тому +32

    This world is so evil

  • @stephenwaters1242
    @stephenwaters1242 Місяць тому +13

    Absolutely spot on, they are hypocrites

  • @user-fv7xq7rz3p
    @user-fv7xq7rz3p Місяць тому +12

    Critique on Israel is not antisemitism

  • @sethlindgren8130
    @sethlindgren8130 Місяць тому +3

    The indignation and rage you feel is echoed across the world right now.

  • @joebondo2422
    @joebondo2422 Місяць тому +22

    I see the IDF has an extended branch of their military in Texas as well. Great research and reporting as usual Owen.
    🙏🇵🇸😔