#also did you know that four of the people involved in killing Jamal Khashoggi underwent U.S. counterinsurgency training

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Asking out of curiosity in case anyone who follows me knows more: in the past couple of months I’ve seen two pieces of news (one about Morocco and recently about Saudi Arabia) saying that a person or multiple people was arrested or sentenced for criticizing Israel in those countries with a bunch of people in the comments saying that it’s propaganda and they live there and and criticize Israel all the time without consequences which seems like a strange argument to make since I don’t think that necessarily precludes the possibility that more prominent activists or public figures could be targeted in a way that the average person is not. But I also don’t know much about the local context of either of those countries or whether there’s legitimate reason to be suspicious of those headlines

#based on what I know about Saudi Arabia’s government and it’s relationship with the US it definitely seems plausible #that people are being arrested #and a lot of the commenters saying that seemed very supportive of the government there #which definitely doesn’t make me think they’re worth listening to #but like I said I don’t know much about the local context of either country #and whether it’s different for Morocco or whether there’s just a few people with shitty politics mixed in #in the case of Saudi Arabia though the rest of the commenters seem to mostly be from the region as well and are ignoring or arguing #with those commenters #so I’m inclined to ignore them but not 100% sure and wondering if anyone wants to inform me #also did you know that four of the people involved in killing Jamal Khashoggi underwent U.S. counterinsurgency training