While the prevailing narrative surrounding efforts to ban TikTok in the United States has echoed the same jingoistic appeal to preserve our “national security” that every landmark bill assaulting the civil liberties of Americans has used to veil its true intent, that initiative may be led by another sovereign nation whose perverse influence over American politics makes them much more qualified to be labeled a foreign adversary than anyone pushing the social media platform. Much like the Patriot Act and policy making both foreign and domestic that has shaped the US political landscape for the worst, Israel’s ubiquitous influence over American politics shows that the Jewish state’s fingerprints are unsurprisingly all over the TikTok ban as well. It’s no secret that Israel is losing the information war over Gaza when it comes to Gen Z. By promoting a bill that divests existing parties from control over the app, the ban paves the way for a new consortium of ownership to come in and use the platform to usurp control of the narrative on the war in Gaza back in the hands of the pro-Israel lobby.
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The US House on Wednesday rammed through a bill to ban TikTok and give the President the power to ban any other app or website deemed a “national security threat” controlled by a “foreign adversary.” 
