Jenin Younes of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sits down with The American Conservative to talk censorship, the Israel lobby, and life in the West Bank.

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When President Donald Trump announced earlier this year that he would “restore free speech,” many civil liberties advocates believed the government’s censorship apparatus constructed under the Biden administration would finally be dismantled. Ten months later, it is difficult to find any civil libertarian who still feels that way.

I spoke with attorney and podcaster Jenin Younes about free speech under Trump as well as her work as the new national legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, an organization which recently filed a major lawsuit in California challenging a new state law that restricts “antisemitic” speech without defining the term. 

You made a name for yourself as an opponent of the Biden censorship regime. That was a well-financed, government-backed effort to control the information system, to censor dissidents of official orthodoxies around COVID’s origins and the government responses