A professor at the University of Michigan was punished for refusing to write a letter of recommendation for a student's application to a university in Israel.

In general, I think professors should be allowed to boycott specific universities for any reason. However, letters of recommendation are a different issue because they are something professors do for their students. Denying a student a letter of recommendation to a university because of disapproval of that university forces the student, in effect, to boycott that university too. That choice should be the student's choice to make.

The US has privatized salvage archeology to companies that discard the data.

Dubya and Obama borrowed their assassination programs from Israel, which had set it up as part of denying that the occupation of Palestine was an occupation.

At that time, Israel occupied the whole of the Palestinian territory, including Gaza.

HIV prophylaxis medicine could, over time, eliminate HIV. We only need to make sure everyone can get it.

Facebook deleted a video in which George Monbiot describes the atrocities that Christopher Columbus personally led in the colonization of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

It later restored the article after widespread criticism.

I don't know what words Yannis Mendez used, but the article refers to publications as "content" and says it is legitimate to delete "inappropriate" publications. The term "content" disparages all publications, regardless of what is good or bad about them. There are valid reasons to delete some publications, but in order for a reason to be valid, it must be statable with some concrete word — "inappropriate" is never sufficient.

Publishing on or via Facebook feeds the power of that company. The best way to protect yourself from its censorship is to publish elsewhere.

If you access the video (or anything) on youtube, for your freedom's sake I urge you to do it with youtube-dl rather than by running the nonfree software that youtube.com sends in every page.