As usual, Kenan Malik in this guardian article is insightful and humane in his critique of censorship, in this case the censorship of viewpoints in solidarity with Palestine. In his final para he makes the very obvious point that "such censorship echoes the arguments of many on the left in recent years, who have sought to delegitimise certain viewpoints by expanding the boundaries of hate speech."
In relation to a certain issues, including the need to balance the rights of trans-identified people and the sex-based rights of women, our basic compassion and decency towards groups that have suffered appalling discrimination is being gamed by people who want to shut down legitimate debate.
I'm wondering now whether we are reaching a tipping point where people are becoming less and less likely to be wrongfooted by this manipulation of basic decency? Will there come a point where people automatically see this strategy it for what it is? A point where we can just discuss the facts without the million preliminaries that are necessary to defend genuinely humane perspectives against bad faith accusations of hatred or prejudice?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/03/freedom-expression-imperilled-when-speakers-cancelled-whether-left-or-right-gaza