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exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight.

When Vice President J.D. Vance traveled to the Munich Security Conference last week

and denounced growing and increasingly repressive censorship in Europe, especially Germany,

many began paying far more attention to this serious problem than they did previously.

In documenting the attack on core rights of free expression in Europe, Vance listed many

disturbing incidents where citizens were punished by the state for political views that various

European capitals have grown to view as unacceptable.

For a variety of reasons, Vance neglected to mention the primary target of censorship punishments and repression,

namely those who are critical of Israel and particularly its war on Gaza.

For more than a year, EU countries led by Germany and then closely behind by the UK

have become more and more aggressive about simply shutting down pro-Palestinian speech

and punishing those who are critical of or engage in activism against Israel.

Much of this culminated today in an ugly incident in Berlin where the police forcibly harassed a film festival because one of the directors of the film accused, one of the films accused Israel of quote, genocide, while the event also featured the UN rapporteur Francisco Albanese, who has become very controversial because of how critical she is of Israel's actions

in Gaza. The German-based journalist James Jackson has been covering these free speech

attacks in Germany extensively, and he will be here with us tonight to explain them all.

Then several top national security officials of the Trump administration, including

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