Reported by Prism Reports, Google Cloud announced significant investments in advanced cloud capabilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in April 2025 this year, even though the country is heavily involved in the ongoing genocide in Sudan, which has so far killed over 150,000 people.
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Microsoft said it found that Israel was violating some terms of service for its products and that it does “not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians.”
By Sheera Frenkel for The New York Times on September 25, 2025
Nog steeds werken Nederlandse universiteiten samen met bedrijven uit het Israëlische militair-industrieel complex. Volgens deskundigen zouden hun kennis en technologie direct op het slagveld van Gaza kunnen belanden.
By Emiel Woutersen, Machteld Veen, and Sofyan El Bouchtili for De Groene Amsterdammer on September 30, 2025
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show.
By Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham for The Guardian on October 29, 2025
De Balie organised an evening with Madhumita Murgia about her recent book Code-Dependent. Our own Naomi Appelman was asked to reflect on the book.
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Banken die vragen naar je mening over Hamas. Moslims die keer op keer op het matje worden geroepen, niet vanwege verdachte transacties, maar om hun naam, geloof of activisme. Wat is bedoeld als wapen tegen terrorisme, verandert in een systeem dat hele groepen wantrouwt en mogelijk discrimineert.
By David Davidson and Jan-Hein Strop for Follow the Money on September 6, 2025
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
By Jack Poulson and Lee Fang for Drop Site News on September 3, 2025
GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.
From Al Jazeera on June 26, 2025
Paid ads hosted on Facebook, Instagram and Threads seem to violate Meta’s stated policies yet remain active.
By Johana Bhuiyan for The Guardian on July 21, 2025
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe.
By Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham for The Guardian on August 6, 2025
Demonstration follows revelation firm’s servers holding huge collection of intercepted Palestinian phone calls.
By Harry Davies for The Guardian on August 10, 2025
Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.
By Sam Biddle for The Intercept on May 12, 2025
Earlier this month, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese released another damning report titled From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide (PDF) which names over 60 companies profiting from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories.
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GoFundMe is actively blocking Palestinian aid fundraisers, withholding large sums of money or shutting down critical fundraising pages. Many critics have stated that GoFundMe disproportionately restricts Gaza-related pages rather than those for other causes, such as Ukraine or Israel.
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An investigation by Follow the Money reveals that Dutch universities are participating in at least 28 European Union-funded research projects with Israeli partners that potentially benefit the Israeli military, despite EU rules prohibiting military applications.
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The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes.
By Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham for The Guardian on March 6, 2025
A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.
By Murtaza Hussain, Nicholas Rodelo, Ryan Grim, and Waqas Ahmed for Drop Site News on April 11, 2025
Whistleblowers at Meta have shown how the Israeli government is requesting pro-Palestine posts to be censored, with Meta complying in most cases.
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Shortly after Israel escalated its violations of the ceasefire in Gaza, bombing and murdering hundreds of Palestinians, Google announced a USD$32 billion acquisition of Wiz.
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The Digital Divide: New Report by 7amleh on the Systemic Discrimination in Digital Infrastructure Against Palestinian Citizens in Israel.
From 7amleh on March 24, 2025
State department launches AI-assisted reviews of accounts to look for what it perceives as Hamas supporters.
From The Guardian on March 7, 2025
If you want to send money to help the Palestinian cause, there is a high chance your payment might get blocked somewhere. Same thing if you want to make a game about the Palestine experience and are trying to get it published in the app stores.
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Rasheed Abueideh’s game, based on a folk tale about a mother’s escape to Lebanon has been rejected almost 300 times, but he hopes it can be completed even in the event of his disappearance
By Keza MacDonald for The Guardian on January 9, 2025
With firms such as Makani and Boycat, founders answer a growing demand: help their users support Palestinians.
By Johana Bhuiyan for The Guardian on January 2, 2025
On 16 December 2024, the Democratic Republic of Congo filed criminal complaints against Apple and its subsidiaries in France and Belgium for concealing war crimes – pillaging and concealing the role of “blood minerals” – in its international supply chains, laundering forged materials and misleading consumers. They argue that Apple is complicit in crimes that are taking place in Congo.
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The board of the non-profit Code for Science & Society blocked a statement against genocide. The fallout tore the high-profile organization apart.
By Timothy Pratt for The Guardian on December 3, 2024
As we wrote earlier,, tech companies are deeply complicit in the current genocide in Gaza as well as the broader oppression in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has released a new report titled, “Delete the Issue: Tech Worker Testimonies on Palestinian Advocacy and Workplace Suppression.” The report, the first of its kind, shares testimonies gathered from current and former employees in major technology companies, including Meta, Google, PayPal, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Cisco. It highlights their experiences supporting Palestinian rights in the workplace and the companies’ efforts to restrict freedom of expression on the matter.
From 7amleh on November 11, 2024
Employees at Cisco revealed to WIRED the challenges they’ve encountered while petitioning for the cancellation of contracts with Israel and greater recognition of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
By Paresh Dave for WIRED on October 30, 2024
As I write this piece, an Israeli airstrike has hit makeshift tents near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, burning tents and people alive. The Israeli military bombed an aid distribution point in Jabalia, wounding 50 casualties who were waiting for flour. The entire north of Gaza has been besieged by the Israeli Occupying Forces for the past 10 days, trapping 400,000 Palestinians without food, drink, and medical supplies. Every day since last October, Israel, with the help of its western allies, intensifies its assault on Palestine, each time pushing the boundaries of what is comprehensible. There are no moral or legal boundaries Israel, and its allies, will not cross. The systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which has been the basis of the settler-colonial Zionist project since its inception, has accelerated since 7th October 2023. From Palestine to Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, Israel and its allies continue their violence with impunity. Meanwhile, mainstream western news media are either silent in their reporting or complicit in abetting the ongoing destruction of the Palestinian people and the resistance.
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Government involvement in content moderation raises serious human rights concerns in every context. Since October 7, social media platforms have been challenged for the unjustified takedowns of pro-Palestinian content—sometimes at the request of the Israeli government—and a simultaneous failure to remove hate speech towards Palestinians. More specifically, social media platforms have worked with the Israeli Cyber Unit—a government office set up to issue takedown requests to platforms—to remove content considered as incitement to violence and terrorism, as well as any promotion of groups widely designated as terrorists.
By Jillian C. York and Paige Collings for Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on July 26, 2024
Kunstmatige intelligentie zou ervoor zorgen dat er tijdens oorlogen minder burgerdoden vallen. In realiteit vallen er juist meer. Want waar mensen worden gereduceerd tot datapunten, voelt vuren al snel als objectief en correct.
By Lauren Gould, Linde Arentze, and Marijn Hoijtink for De Groene Amsterdammer on July 24, 2024
We have been demanding that Google cut its ties to Israel’s apartheid government for years, and we’re not stopping now.
By Mohammad Khatami and Zelda Montes Kate Sim for The Nation on April 29, 2024
Two Google workers have resigned and another was fired over a project providing AI and cloud services to the Israeli government and military.
By Billy Perrigo for Time on April 10, 2024
A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?
By Paul Biggar for Paul Biggar on April 16, 2024
Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants.
By Bethan McKernan and Harry Davies for The Guardian on April 3, 2024
Google employees are staging sit-ins and protests at company offices in New York and California over “Project Nimbus,” a cloud contract with Israel’s government, as the country’s war with Hamas continues.
By Caroline Haskins for WIRED on April 16, 2024
A protest is planned Saturday at a Chicago Apple store where workers say managers disciplined staff—and fired an employee—for wearing pins, bracelets, or keffiyeh in support of Palestinian people.
By Caroline Haskins for WIRED on April 2, 2024
Ferras Hamad claims in lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinians’ Instagram posts.
From The Guardian on June 5, 2024
Since 2021, thousands of Amazon and Google tech workers have been organising against Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s shared USD$1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military. Since then, there has been no response from management or executive. Their organising efforts have accelerated since 7 October 2023, with the ongoing genocide on Gaza and occupied Palestinian territories by the Israeli state.
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