TikTok ban in the US aims to suppress anti-Israel content

The TikTok ban in the United States was instigated by Israel and aims to suppress those distributing content that supports Palestine and condemns Israel.

The move comes after many young Americans protested Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. According to reports, the US Congress has passed a ban on TikTok, owned by China, on the pretext of national security.

The social network was shut down in the United States last month, before being allowed back on air this week after US President Donald Trump lifted the ban.

American journalist Ken Klippenstein said on Sunday that “TikTok’s ownership by a Chinese company was not the main reason Congress took action.”

He noted that the national security bill “was dead” until Hamas’s October 7, 2023, operation called al-Aqsa Storm against Israel, “brought the law back to life.”

Senator Mitt Romney, who supports a ban on TikTok, linked his support for shutting down the platform, which is popular among American youth, to the Palestinian issue.

Pro-Palestinian protests began at Columbia University in New York on April 17, 2024, and then spread to other campuses across the United States, creating a student movement unparalleled in this century.

The protesters, who demanded an end to the US-backed war, which has killed at least 48,271 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and injured 111,693 others. Many of the young people who have faced police brutality have been using the TikTok platform to raise awareness about the Palestinian cause.