I’m being told that the largest Mastodon instance - mastodon.social - is now hiding my profile.
One person telling me it’s because of German obsession with making up antisemitism where there is none.
Anyone who knows my work knows that I platform critical Jewish voices. My MA thesis was on Yiddish & Hebrew, I do memory studies which incl Holocaust studies, and I am co-producing a Jewish podcast by three radical Jews. I’m also a writer for 972mag.
So what’s up Mastodon? Am I too Arab for you?
Does anyone know how we can get a concrete reasons given by the Mastodon.social mods? I want them decent and brave enough to simply state the why.
And if they dare say antisemitism they can expect a very long essay about how weaponising antisemitism has been one of the main tools used by the far right to make threaten both Arab/Muslims and Jews.
And I will demand an apology.
And if my timeline is correct my posts were muted around the time I posted about the ICC arrest warrants
@ayoub I can see your timeline on c.im
@ayoub There is no getting through to mastodon.social. They are just hopeless and will sweep Israeli war crimes under the rug.
@ayoub yup and it got into the explore page
@ayoub i mean, i got silenced alongside a bunch of others for arguing that mastodonForHarris was a waste of money and pretentious as shit and they should give directly to desperate queer & poc instead
back then we realized: silencing is done mostly to "improve property values". clear out the undesirables so that big names endorse it or finance it. queers, poc, poor people, anarchists and palestine suppporters would drive down property values if we got too loud, so we gotta be kept out of the neighborhood.
@rachaelspooky
Great analogy - especially when the BlackRock of social media is scouting the neighborhood