Insiders: U.S. TikTok Ban Seeks to Suppress Anti-Israel Content

Date: 17 February 2025 - 21:47

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WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – The U.S. ban on TikTok was fueled by the Zionist regime and aims to suppress pro-Palestine content, after American youths opposed the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, an article says.
Congress has passed a ban on the Chinese-owned TikTok, citing national security concerns. The social media platform went offline in the U.S. last month, before resuming service this week as U.S. President Donald Trump delayed the ban.
“The company’s ownership by China never was the driving force in Congress eventually taking action,” American journalist Ken Klippenstein said, citing congressional insiders.
He noted that the national security bill “was dead” until Hamas’ October 7, 2023 Al-Aqsa Flood operation against the Zionist regime, “which brought the legislation back to life.”
“So we had a bipartisan consensus. We had the executive branch, but the bill was still dead until October 7th. And people started to see a bunch of anti-Semitic content on the platform and our bill had legs again,” the article cited former congressman Mike Gallagher, and now a Palantir executive.
He made the remarks when asked by Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, about the “real story” behind the law that could still ban TikTok, at the Munich Security Conference last week. Gallagher, along with Warner, first introduced the bill that claimed TikTok was a national security threat.
The article added that there have been hints of the real reason behind the ban for some time.
“Israeli officials and lobbyists told everyone that would listen in Washington that TikTok’s algorithm fueled American youth opposition to the Israel-Hamas war,” the article said.
“As I reported last year, a State Department source told me that a high-ranking Israeli diplomat was ranting about the supposed malign role of some Chinese-manufactured algorithm, purposely dismissive of the reality that the college protesters’ outrage was  sincere, that it was about Israel’s military conduct in Gaza and not some ‘foreign malign influence’ campaign hatched in Beijing.”
The article also referred to a memo, produced by the State Department for its Near East Affairs diplomats, that describes how Deputy Director General for Public Diplomacy at Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Emmanuel Nahshon, blamed youth opposition to the war in Gaza on the TikTok algorithm, and ignored warnings from the Joe Biden administration’s Assistant Secretary for Global Public Affairs, Bill Russo, “oblivious” to the “possibility generational damage to their reputation” they were facing internationally.
“Nahshon disagreed with Russo’s assertion that the United States and Israel faced a major credibility problem as a result of the unpopular war on Gaza. The Israelis seemed oblivious to the fact that they are facing major, possibly generational damage to their reputation not just in the region but elsewhere in the world,” read the memo.