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Sep 6, 2024 | 
themarkaz.org | Omar Zahzah
In which the author argues that Meta adopts the censorious positions it does against free speech for Palestine because it is a dominant corporate platform, which requires it to take US hegemonic positions, especially support for Israel, for granted. Omar ZahzahThe Palestinian American poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s 2019 collection The Tiny Journalist offers an extended treatment of social media’s influence on the Palestinian struggle.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Omar Zahzah
Above photo: Protesters in San Francisco block a street to demand that Google drop its involvemeent with Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government tech contract. Calvin Stewart / ZUMA Press Wire. Years of activism against Google’s complicity in Israel’s colonial violence against Palestinians have forced the multinational tech behemoth into a rigid moral impasse and exposed the hollowness of its brand.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Omar Zahzah
Years of activism against Google’s complicity in Israel’s colonial violence against Palestinians have forced the multinational tech behemoth into a rigid moral impasse and exposed the hollowness of its brand. In April 2021, Google and Amazon were awarded a $1.2 billion contract with Israel for Project Nimbus, which aimed to streamline all of Israel’s government and military operations into one cloud service.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | Omar Zahzah |Refaat Alareer
Israel plans colony on UNESCO heritage site as land theft surges“The sniper was shooting him for fun”Guardian's Zionist gatekeeper rewrites Holocaust historyReleased into hell after 20 years of Israeli prison Day 320: Iran's retaliation against Israel is coming
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Omar Zahzah
This complicity in genocide has also assumed other, sometimes more subtle guises, including systematic erasure of support for Palestine from Meta’s platforms. It’s an increasingly familiar contradiction: digital platforms that position themselves as an accessible alternative to corporate media emerge as new censors in their own right.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
mondoweiss.net | Omar Zahzah
A particular image has been making the rounds on social media lately. The publication date is not October, but April 2023, and it was taken not from Gaza, but the West Bank. Apparently recirculated on June 13, 2024 by the account @tamerqdh on X (formerly Twitter,) the image shows a Zionist occupation forces soldier posing with a bound and blindfolded female Palestinian hostage.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Omar Zahzah
It’s an increasingly familiar contradiction: digital platforms that position themselves as an accessible alternative to corporate media emerge as new censors in their own right. Social media and the internet make it possible to disseminate material that would otherwise have been suppressed, thereby helping to bring alternative conversations to the fore of mainstream awareness.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
dissidentvoice.org | Omar Zahzah
The colonial application of digital technologies spurs Palestinian resistance It’s an increasingly familiar contradiction: digital platforms that position themselves as an accessible alternative to corporate media emerge as new censors in their own right. Social media and the internet make it possible to disseminate material that would otherwise have been suppressed, thereby helping to bring alternative conversations to the fore of mainstream awareness.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
savageminds.substack.com | Omar Zahzah
Discover more from Savage MindsInvestigative reporting and social commentary on public culture, the arts, science, and politics. It’s an increasingly familiar contradiction: digital platforms that position themselves as an accessible alternative to corporate media emerge as new censors in their own right.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
randomlengthsnews.com | Omar Zahzah
The colonial application of digital technologies spurs Palestinian resistance. By Omar Zahzah, June 27https://www.projectcensored.org/refusing-the-language-of-silence/It’s an increasingly familiar contradiction: digital platforms that position themselves as an accessible alternative to corporate media emerge as new censors in their own right.
