Journalist Max Blumenthal was detained by CPB. Jenin Younes is on the case.

Free speech in the United States is often celebrated as a settled principle, but this conversation shows how quickly the First Amendment gets bent when fear, geopolitics, and executive power collide. Civil liberties attorney and ADC President and Legal Director Jenin Younes describes a “Palestinian exception” to free speech, where criticism of Israel or support for Palestinian human rights triggers unusually coordinated suppression across government, campuses, and private institutions.