by Daniel Brouse
July 10, 2025
I am currently working on an ongoing series of articles about the escalating silencing of protest and free speech in the United States, particularly under President Trump’s renewed crackdown on those opposing the genocide in Gaza. Across the country, people here on visas who have spoken out against these war crimes are being targeted. Several student activists have been arrested, indefinitely detained, or deported simply for exercising their right to protest and speak out against the atrocities being committed.
Meanwhile, academic institutions are under siege, facing lawsuits, threats of defunding, and systematic intimidation under the false accusation of antisemitism for allowing or supporting pro-Palestinian speech on campus. This is part of a broader, deliberate strategy to criminalize dissent and label any criticism of Israel’s apartheid policies and genocide as antisemitism, effectively weaponizing these accusations to suppress human rights advocacy and academic freedom. It is not about protecting communities from hate; it is about protecting power, shielding war crimes from accountability, and silencing those who dare to call them out.
We are witnessing a dangerous erosion of First Amendment rights in the United States, where the government aligns itself with genocide abroad while persecuting those who resist it at home. This moment demands clarity: opposing genocide is not antisemitism, and demanding an end to apartheid is not hate speech. The real danger lies in the authoritarian structures that criminalize truth-telling while facilitating war crimes with impunity.
My background on this is important to understand. I am an investigative journalist with decades of experience in publishing and litigation, including over a decade spent in court defending the First Amendment. I have faced threats to my life and the safety of my family many times because of my commitment to exposing the truth. In this particular moment, the danger is even more severe.
I am a descendant of the Tribe of Judah, which makes me a Semite. Even more significantly, I am part of a bloodline that includes Princess Diana, and some believe it traces back to Jesus himself. This lineage has been targeted for centuries by those in power, from the Vatican to the Freemasons, seeking to erase it. Despite these risks, I believe it is necessary to speak out. Silence in the face of genocide, apartheid, and the suppression of truth is not an option, no matter how significant the personal cost.
Perhaps most urgently, I want to share what I recently explained to a friend who asked whether it would be safer to discuss Gaza in person over coffee rather than here:
“I think both are important. It would be great to get together, and I’d enjoy seeing you again. At the same time, I know it’s best for me to discuss these things publicly. Once I publish the truth to millions of people, it actually makes me safer. My bigger concern is for those around me.
Have you seen my post about Ahmed Alkhateeb? Since I started sharing his situation, his children were shot at. I’m aware that Israeli intelligence knows everything going in and out, including his location, and that’s what truly worries me. So yes, I believe it’s important to keep saying these things here.”
I am sharing this here because it also relates to our friends in Gaza and the harsh reality of surveillance and risk tied to our activism. My main concern now is the “flow of money.” Anyone who donates to GoFundMe campaigns or other aid channels supporting Gaza is at risk of arrest or jail under the current U.S. crackdown on speech and activism. More critically, those funds can be traced to specific mobile phones in Gaza, putting recipients at extreme risk of being located and executed. This is something we need to consider carefully as we move forward, balancing our urgent desire to help with the grave dangers imposed by the systems we are fighting.
This is a moment that requires courage, clarity, and collective action. We cannot allow authoritarianism to dictate who lives and who dies, who speaks and who is silenced. If we believe in freedom, it must include the freedom to call out genocide—and the freedom to stand in solidarity with those who suffer under it.
Evangelical Christianity and Israel
If you’re curious about the driving force behind US support for Israel, it’s ironically rooted in Evangelical Christianity. Many Evangelical Christians believe they can hasten the “second coming of Christ” by bringing about the apocalypse. According to their interpretation of the Bible, this involves Israel reclaiming Jerusalem, Jesus returning, and ultimately eliminating all Jews. For numerous “Christian Zionists,” especially influential evangelists aligned with the Republican Party, support for Israel is less about political strategy and more about its supposed role in biblical prophecy. In this worldview, war is not something to be avoided but embraced as a divine necessity—an inevitable and even celebratory step toward Jesus’ rule from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The fate of Jews and Palestinians is, to put it mildly, seen as collateral damage.
- The False Claims of Ownership: Israel, Gaza, and the Hypocrisy of Power
- Trump’s Push for Mass Deportations: Palestinians and U.S. Immigrants in the Crosshairs
- Roger Waters Faces Prosecution for Opposing Genocide in Gaza
- Behind Closed Doors: Netanyahu and Trump’s Plan to Turn Gaza Into a Giant Prison for Ethnic Cleansing
- Watching Genocide in Real Time
- How Bombing Iran Creates the Greatest Modern Threat to U.S. Homeland Security
- Unauthorized and Unraveled: Trump’s Reckless War with Iran Has Unleashed Global Peril
- Trump’s Complicity in Global War Crimes: Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran