Good evening. It's Friday, May 3rd. Welcome to a new episode of System Update,

our live nightly show that it is every Monday through

Friday at 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on Rumbull, the Free Speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, the post 9-11 discourse about terrorism and domestic terrorists is back with a vengeance.

As is the defining mentality of that era, a constant attempt to exaggerate fears and inflate threats with the principal purpose an and attempts to seize in the name of stopping it.

Over the last two months we have seen one attack on core free speech rights after the next,

all justified by the alleged threat of anti-Israel activism,

activism that is now routinely being labeled,

quote, domestic terrorism, I guess,

domestic terrorism without the bombs and the explosions

and the death threats and the violent and fatal attacks on people.

Now we have covered many of these erosion of core free speech rights since October 7th

and especially since the campus protest against the Israeli war in Gaza began and will do so again tonight but it is

hard to overstate how extreme and excessive was the bill that was passed this

week with the support of the leaders of both parties in the American House

Representatives, a bill that nominally seeks to expand the definition of quote anti-Semitism

for purposes of federal anti-discrimination law, but which in fact bans a wide

range of obviously valid and permissible criticisms of both the state of Israel

and Jewish individuals. When one looks at all of these incidents in isolation, it is easy

to object and even get angry about each one. But it is really important to take a step back

and examine the underlying tactics and mentality and framework that have

taken root and then are now driving all of these incidents and when one does so as we will do

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