Free speech

Trump teleprompter operator accused of placing insider bets on presidential speech scripts

Gabriel Perez allegedly used advance knowledge of Trump’s speeches to place prediction-market bets, earning nearly $100,000 before Kalshi froze the profits and alerted regulators.

Gabriel Perez checks a teleprompter before Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak following early results from the 2024 U.S. presidential election in Palm Beach County Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024.
A photograph of the glass door at Haaretz smashed by a masked vandal.

Masked vandal smashes entrance to Haaretz offices, days after similar attack on Channel 12

A passenger looks on as members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front ride the Washington Metro on July 04, 2026 in Washington, DC.

White nationalist group Patriot Front marched through Washington DC ahead of Independence Day

The NHS logo is displayed on a ambulance parked close to a nearby hospital, on October 20, 2025.

UK medical org. to investigate NHS use of IHRA antisemitism definition over free speech claims


Canceling free speech leads to whitewashing history - opinion

Whatever happened to the once-noble American traditions of free speech, an open marketplace of ideas and academic freedom?

PROTESTERS ATTACH a chain to a statue of Andrew Jackson in front of the White House in Washington last summer.

Emi Palmor: The Israeli watchdog involved in Facebook's ban on Trump

With an imminent decision on Trump on the Oversight Board’s docket, all eyes are on its 20 members.

Emi Palmor.

Oppressive Turkish gov’t pushes bizarre ‘human rights’ plan - analysis

Is Turkey’s “human rights” plan just virtue-signaling to try to forestall US criticism, or is it part of a process of creating a new constitution and seeking to turn itself into a one party state?

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference following a cabinet meeting in Ankara, Turkey, December 14, 2020

Free speech does not mean hate speech - opinion

The limits of free speech were violated in the ad hominem assaults on Rabbi Beals, which are intolerable.

Rabbi Beals and Biden.

Capitol riot underscores the shared values of Americans and Israelis

Neither the US nor Israel has experienced a direct threat to the basic functioning of their democracies quite like the unspeakable act of Trump supporters storming the Capitol

Jacob Anthony Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, of Arizona, stands with other supporters of US President Donald Trump as they demonstrate on the second floor of the US Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, US, January 6, 2021.

My Word: Social media’s ultimate cancel culture

Who has the last word in determining what can be said in public in the global village?

3D-PRINTED BALLOT BOXES are seen in front of Facebook and Twitter logos.

Progressive Jewish groups oppose codification of IHRA antisemitism definition

Network of left-wing Jewish organizations argues that legal adoption of IHRA definition could stifle free speech and suppress debate on Israel. Foreign Ministry laments opposition to further adoption

A J Street panel meeting

Facebook’s dilemma: How to police claims about unproven COVID-19 vaccines

"There's a ceiling to how much we can do until the facts on the ground become more concrete."

Facebook logo is reflected in glasses in this picture illustration taken April 1, 2019

Trump threatens to close down social media platforms

'We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen'

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to announce a new Middle East peace plan proposal in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2020

The battle for free speech on university campuses

There is a coalition of extreme activists, mostly hailing from the international far Left, doing everything possible to ensure voices like those of Col. Kemp and Gen. Kuperwasser are silenced.

Richard Kemp