Dude, hamas beheading your babies is a lie and that has long been debunked. The IDF bombing schools and hospitals, on the other hand, was live streamed. You guys are the real baby killers, what else do you expect us to admit?
Waving that antisemitism flag won't change the facts, just makes people sick of that very word.
You are depicting yourself as on the "progressive" side of the Israeli society. If your view is representative, it's evident your country is irreversibly running down the slippery Nazi road and it does not bode well for Israel.
Israel rounding up and shooting people is absolutely real. The whole of Gaza is basically a open air concentration camp where the Israelis control water and electricity and which part gets bombed on which day basically depends on the mood of the IDF.
If the west is serious about its "universal values", that would the approach to take. Unfortunately, that's not the case.
Yes, China banned Facebook, X etc for national security reasons, too. The Chinese government wants Chinese data to stay in China, and all of these social media platform would have to comply with Chinese law, including some requirements regarding censorship. Now it becomes more and more obvious that the west is not that different from China, the country it keeps bitching about on a daily basis. Censorship has been there for a long time, and now you have outright banning of a social network because it has roots in China.
You can accept one of these two things but not both:
A. National security is above freedom of speech
B. Freedom of speech is a fundamental value of an open society and should in no scenario be given up
If you accept A, you have to be honest and admit that the banning of Facebook etc in China is completely justified.
If you accept B, you have to just let TikTok operate normally as any other social network.
Nobody has the full view of reality. It's always projected through a lens colored by feelings, emotions, upbringing, education, environment etc. When you hate something, it's not always because have a fully rational motive to hate, but often the things your have experienced, you have read and heard, leads you into that trajectory without you even realizing it. Same goes for love. You hate TikTok and millions of your fellow Americans love TikTok, does that mean you are in a higher position of enlightenment and more holistic view of the universe? I don't think so.
It's also pure nonsense that TikTok is somehow "misleading" the American youth. It's basically a recommendation engine. And what's the job of a recommendation engine? To give you whatever content you might be interested in. Just go to youtube and start clicking all the garbage content (if they are not censored already), you will end up with a lot of garbage in your feed. Because if you spend a lot of time watching garbage, the algorithm will think you like garbage and will push garbage onto your frontpage.
Free speech by your definition does not exist anywhere. The editors of New York Times, CNN etc do not have the "same" right to speak as an average citizen. So the free speech you have experienced so far is nothing more than an illusion.