This was a difficult, but necessary listen esp in light of the escalations this week. Appreciate the analysis from @docmattmoudi.bsky.social @marwasf.bsky.social and @alixdunn.com's team for not shying away from what we need to face. csm.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-...

Last week we hosted a live show on AI and warfare, going deep on the use of AI in Gaza, and it's now live on our Computer Says Maybe feed. Exceptional group of guests: @marwasf.bsky.social, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, Karen Palacio (aka kardaver), and Wanda Muñoz. Essential if difficult listening.

Given Germany's panic over Palestine solidarity, it's clear what clothing the Berlinale will deem "not compatible with the liberal democratic basic order." (Yup, this is a real rule: www.kbb.eu/en/hausordnung – and yup, artists are striking: filmworkersforpalestine.org#strikeberlin...)

Shocking video from Beit Lahia. This man was killed by a smoke grenade.💔💔💔💔💔

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

“Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools.” @suzannesmalley.bsky.social therecord.media/how-italy-be...

Impunity breeds more crime. Fourteen months of non-stop mass slaughter, shielded and supported by western powers, had unleashed Israel’s genocidal mania on full display. Good luck reigning back this monster.

Cybercrime laws across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are being weaponized to stifle dissent + crush freedoms – going beyond combating real crimes. The new @UN Cybercrime treaty could legitimize these abuses. www.accessnow.org/arab-region-...

Hamra, Beirut where last night’s Israeli strike took place hours before the ceasefire. Looks like it hit a currency exchange shop. Many displaced families in the commercial neighborhood have already packed up to return to southern Lebanon and Beirut southern suburbs.

People are returning in the thousands to their villages in Lebanon. Land is not just property: It envelopes memory, community and identity. In this unstable region, the concept of home transcends space and time. It is existential. Personal. Political.

Our lives have been a one long intractable war interrupted by short intervals of ceasefires and not the other way around. We will never know peace until liberation from Israel‘s oppression and domination.

I hope the ceasefire in Lebanon holds. But there will be no peace as long as Israel maintains this ludicrous right to preemptively attack sovereign states if it wishes so. apnews.com/article/isra...

Ceasefire went into effect. So many feelings but first and foremost: tired. People are tired. Thousands of cars heading south from displacement to check on their homes. #Lebanon

BREAKING: The ICC issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. AT LAST. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Imagine losing 50 to 100 members of your community every day for over a year. How can one grasp the scale of killing and loss of life in Gaza? Beyond the murdered are the injured, missing, amputated, disabled, elderly, children, and pregnant—imagine the unimaginable suffering they endure daily.

The death toll from tonight’s massacres in Gaza is nearing 100 people.

Yesterday, Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat was injured in an Israeli double tap strike on a home in Gaza, where he had rushed to report on the first airstrike. Shabat says he was deliberately targeted in the second airstrike, and he has reason to believe so. #حسام_شبات #الجزيرة #غزة

Access Now: İsrail'in Filistin'e yönelik dijital işgaline karşı mücadele 🗣️ @marwasf.bsky.social: "İsrail, Gazze ve Filistinlileri kendi teknolojileri için bir test laboratuvarı olarak kullanarak, dünyaya yapay zekâ destekli yeni ve tehlikeli bir savaş planı sunuyor." bianet.org/haber/access...

Filistin İçin Teknoloji'nin yeni bölümünde Access Now oluşumunun Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika Politika ve Savunuculuk Direktörü Marwa Fatafta (@marwasf.bsky.social) ile İsrail'in Filistin'e yönelik dijital işgaline karşı mücadeleyi konuştuk:

Shout out to the brave folks at @notechforapartheid.bsky.social. Follow them for updates on big tech complicity in Israel’s genocide + support their campaign to hold these companies to account.

Inspired by workers organizing @techwontsave.us 👀 " @parismarx.com is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it." techwontsave.us/episode/235_...

Meet Google's Genocide Czar: Thomas Kurian! Google Cloud's CEO is an industry leader in the deployment of AI for occupation & genocide—providing cutting-edge cloud computing tech via Project Nimbus to Israel's military, & enabling them to massacre hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza

Another list for folks who’re searching for Palestinian accounts to follow on this platform.

This is all that remains of Al Najjar hospital in Rafah. The extent of the devastation only now coming to light because it is in the Israeli military controlled area. There must be accountability for the depraved, illegal destruction of this hospital.

Too little, too late. As usual politicians in the west walk back their statements after the damage is done and media has moved on. Israel and its lackeys get away yet again with capturing the imaginations of the global north, confirming their bias against Muslims, Arabs & Palestinians.

In other disgraceful news from Germany.

‘Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign ministrer, also praised the US move. “Self-defence means that you don’t wait until rockets hit a children’s hospital”’ -  unless it’s in Gaza or Lebanon, in which case you send more rockets to the perpetrator.’ on.ft.com/3AVru5h

Israel murdered 46 people in Gaza today.

Rightly put, the system of international justice is on trial. For over a year now, Israel & the US have been unraveling the post-WWII global order before our eyes. The threats and attacks they’re directing against the ICC, already a paralyzed body, is a case in point. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/turm...

Important list for those following Lebanon and want to get the news on the situation from politically aware people who contextually report on the region away from liberal/neocolonial discourses go.bsky.app/Rh15fzv

Different platform, same censorship. There is no safe space for Palestinians, neither offline or online.

If you’re migrating to this platform and looking for Palestinian voices and Palestine-related news, check this list of starter packs on Palestine here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

This dangerous bill is brought back after it was blocked last week.

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

THREAD: The UN Special Committee investigating Israel’s practices published its report yesterday concluding that Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide. Most notably, it captures some of Israel’s digital warfare and the conduct of social media companies.

Contrary to what NSO Group has claimed for years, court documents from the ongoing US litigation between NSO and WhatsApp reveal that the spyware maker is the one that “installs and extracts” information from targeted mobile devices. NSO knows who the victims are. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

South Africa has suspended diplomatic relations with Israel

More than 80 people have registered to attend 'The Silencing of Palestine and Palestinian Voices', the 3rd webinar of the series on #AcademicFreedom @ronaldhartz.bsky.social & I are curating. Our speakers are @samerabdelnour.bsky.social, @marwasf.bsky.social & Muhannad Ayyash. Do join us!

It’s hard to watch the horrific scenes coming from Gaza and the escalating death toll. @marwasf.bsky.social joins @parismarx.bsky.social to discuss the info war on social media, internet shutdowns, and what people can do to support Palestinian rights. Listen here: techwontsave.us/episode/194_...

It was great speaking with @parismarx.bsky.social to discuss the digital dimensions of the war on Gaza, from internet shutdowns to social media censorship. Give it a listen.

Despite the tragedy that prompted the episode, I was really happy to speak with @marwasf.bsky.social about how she’s processing everything happening in Gaza right now and what those concerned about Israel’s bombing campaign in the region should know.

الخميس القادم.. ستارة معتمة على غزة. تتوقف كل خدمات الاتصالات والإنترنت الثابتة والمتنقلة،الخميس القادم، في غزة بسبب نفاذ الوقود تماماً. لن تستطيع هيئات الإغاثة الإنسانية والطوارئ والطواقم الطبية والدفاع المدنى من التواصل والتوجيه لأماكن الاستغاثة.

Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...

🚨🚨 Palestinian telecommunications companies are sounding the alarm. Gaza will go into full blackout if no fuel is admitted by this Thursday.

🚨🚨 Palestinian telecommunications companies are sounding the alarm. Gaza will go into full blackout if no fuel is admitted by this Thursday.

As Palestinian patients including pre-mature babies are slowing dying in besieged and constantly attacked hospitals that have come out of service, 27 European foreign ministers met today, deliberated, and came out with this statement. Europe is complicit in Israel’a genocide.

The crimes we see online are a fraction of the atrocities committed in #Gaza as Israel advances its ground operation. Some of the testimonies that emerge, like the ones below, are harrowing.

أسباب فرض فيسبوك اشتراكا على المستخدمين في أوروبا! ولماذا البعض يطلب إضافة علامة الإعجاب على منشوراتهم على #إنستغرام و #فسبوك بحجة التهديد بتعطيل الحساب؟ ما علاقة ذلك بحرب #غزة خاصة ما يسمى بال #shadow_Ban. @marwasf.bsky.social youtu.be/v9VKJ8999B4?...

BREAKING: 7 more patients have died at Al-Shifa Hospital as they ran out of oxygen. This brings the death toll to 20 patients since the hospital went out of service. Make no mistake. Despite their slow and agonizing death, Israel bears full responsibility for their killing.