First, Elon Musk made us pay for ‘free speech’. Now he decides who’s allowed it | Jonathan Cook

Musk’s X is simply the latest innovation on the traditional “free speech” model from the bad old days. Then, only a handful of very rich men could afford to buy themselves lots of hired hands, known as journalists..

He has threatened users with suspension for repeating slogans such as “From the river to the sea, #Palestine will be free” – in other words, for calling for an end to what the judges of the World Court recently decreed to be Israel’s #apartheid rule over Palestinians. He is also against hosting on X the term “decolonisation” in reference to Israel, claiming perversely that “it implies a Jewish #genocide” – itself an implicit admission that Israelis (not Jews) have long been colonising Palestine and ethnically cleansing Palestinians.

The #IsraelLobby is also pushing hard for a ban on the words “#Zionism” and “Zionist”. It won’t be long before X, like #Meta, cracks down on these terms too.

#Hasbara

#Report #MIT #Apartheid #Genocide #Colonialism #Settlers #Technology #Palestine #Gaza

Dr. Omar Nashabe exposes the chilling truth about what’s really happening to Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
#PalestinianDetainees #HumanRights #Palestine #Torture #PalestinianRights #Apartheid #Injustice #OmarNashabe

🇵🇸 Israel's 2018 Nation-State Law: The Zionist Apartheid Manifesto (Part Two) | Institute for Palestine Studies –

The author examine's the Nation-State Law vis-à-vis  the international legal definitions of #Apartheid and in relation to other apartheid  contexts, namely #SouthAfrica, in order to explicate how it targets non-Jewish  inhabitants of #HistoricPalestine.this report investigates Israeli policies since 1948, and especially since its occupation of the #WestBank and #Gaza in 1967, to show how the #NationStateLaw effectively codifies apartheid in the Jewish state.

The #report concludes  that the law functions as the logical conclusion of the #racist,#settler-#colonial #Zionist project which has consistently denied the national, territorial, and human rights of  the Indigenous Palestinians. This critical #study offers much-needed #legal grounding,  analysis, and direction in the defense of Palestinian rights across historic #Palestine  and throughout their expansive #diaspora.

Part 1 - PDF

🇵🇸 Israel's 2018 Nation-State Law: The Zionist Apartheid Manifesto (Part Two) | Institute for Palestine Studies

Part 1 - PDF
#Report #Study #Palestine #Apartheid

🇵🇸 Reminder : Who Profits - The Israeli Occupation Industry

Since its 1967 #occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land, Israel has developed an intricate system of #oppression, combining military force, technology, #infrastructure, and regulations to exert control over Palestinian and Syrian populations and further entrench its control over #land and #resources. Populations living under Israel’s military rule are denied basic civil liberties and are subject to arbitrary repressive violence by the Israeli military, police force, and private security personnel.

In the occupied #WestBank, around 3 million Palestinians live within a complex mosaic of administrative areas carved out through the 1993 #OsloAccords. Under the Accords the West Bank was divided into three administrative areas (A, B, and C). #AreaA comprises approximately 18% of the West Bank and is nominally under full Palestinian control. Area B, comprising approximately 22% of the West Bank, is under the full administrative control of the Palestinian Authority(#PA) but under the military control of Israel. #AreaC, which comprises 61% of the West Bank, is under the full control of Israel through the Civil (Military) Administration in the West Bank. 

These areas are separated and surrounded by a system of #roadblocks, #fences, #walls, #barriers, and #checkpoints, as well as Israeli #settlements and roads designated for the exclusive use of Israelis. The movement of Palestinians between the separate areas is controlled by an elaborate #permit regime. Further, Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza require special permits to enter into areas annexed to Jerusalem, and #Jerusalem itself. Permits are allocated by the Israeli authorities according to secret security and economic considerations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are blacklisted and cannot pass through any of the checkpoints, not even to #travel inside their own enclave to the next town or the surrounding area.

In #Gaza, around two million people have been living under an Israeli-imposed land, air, and sea siege since 2007. The movement of people, goods, and services in or out of Gaza is almost completely blocked, and ongoing military attacks cause mounting casualties and infrastructure #destruction.

#Population control and arbitrary movement #restrictions separate families, severely limit access to #HealthCare, #education, and employment, and hinder economic development. Israel also utilizes its force and technologies to surveil and intimidate populations, as well as to quell any form of political activity and resistance, including the routine use of lethal crowd control weapons and live fire on civilian demonstrators.

Collective punishments in the form of military assaults, house #demolitions, curfews, closures, and mass arrests are common. Presently, there are approximately 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli incarceration centers. About 1,000 are being held under administrative detention, i.e., without having been charged, tried, or sentenced.

Who Profits has identified three sub-categories of corporate involvement in Israel’s Population Control. Private Security and #Surveillance Technology refers to corporate involvement in Israel’s growing Private Security and Surveillance #Technology Industries. The Wall and Checkpoints refers to Israel’s intricate mechanisms of control, physical segregation, and restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the #oPt. Specialized Equipment and Services, refers to corporate involvement in the provision of services and equipment to the
Israeli military and security apparatus.

#Palestine #Syria #WhoProfits #Apartheid #Colonisation #Occupation #PopulationControl #TheWall

🇵🇸 West Bank Access Restrictions - November 2024 | #OCHA


#Palestine #WestBank #OPT #Map
#Maps #Checkpoint #Occupation #Colonisation #Apartheid

#Palestine #WestBank #OPT #Maps #Map #Checkpoint #Occupation #Colonisation #Apartheid

🇵🇸 Our film is going to the Oscars. But in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased | 972mag

As the world watches ‘No Other Land,’ Israeli settlers are raiding and burning our villages while soldiers arrest us, abuse us, and demolish our homes

Despite the exciting success of the #film in #festivals and among journalists and audiences around the world, however, the situation here on the ground is deteriorating rapidly and the future looks bleak.

Over the past 16 months, Israeli settlers and the military have taken advantage of the atmosphere of the war to reshape reality in #MasaferYatta in favor of #settlers and their outposts, intensifying their efforts to displace us from our land. Even as I write this, the Israeli army is conducting a major demolition operation in the community of Khalet A-Daba, razing homes, toilets, solar panels, and trees. 

Documentaries "Saving Masafer Yatta" 2022 + 2023 Documentary

#Palestine #OPT #Colonisation #Apartheid #Dispossession #WestBank #AreaC #Demolition

🇵🇸 No Other Land

Will be aired on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.*

Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist. Bafta and Oscar nominated.

While No Other Land may have accomplished portraying the horrors that Israel creates in the occupied West Bank, it overlooks how Israeli society at large sees the oppression of Palestinians not just as an "unfortunate reality" but rather as justified treatment.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/no-other-land-documentary-captures-palestinian-spirit-fails-depiction-israelis/

#Palestine #Occupation #Apartheid #OPT #Film #Documentary #NoOtherLand

🇵🇸 Israeli spy agencies develop ‘Chat GPT-like’ AI tool to target Palestinians: Report | The Cradle

Israel has compiled an extensive collection of intercepted Palestinian communications to develop an artificial intelligence tool similar to #ChatGPT, which it aims to use to enhance its #espionage capabilities, according to an investigation by the Guardian released on 6 March. 

The investigation uncovered that the IOF’s #Unit8200 programmed the #AI tool to understand colloquial #Arabic by using large amounts of Palestinian phone calls and text messages obtained through its surveillance. 

Unit 8200 “began building the model to create a sophisticated chatbot-like tool capable of answering questions about people it is monitoring and providing insights into the massive volumes of #surveillance #data it collects,” the investigation revealed.

#Palestine #Apartheid #Genocide
#OPT

🇵🇸 Lives shattered in Tulkarem amid Israel’s escalating military assault in the West Bank | Mondoweiss

On the morning of February 9, the al-Ashqar family sat in terrified silence as news spread of the Israeli military’s advance into their neighborhood in #NurShams refugee camp in #Tulkarem.

Unbeknownst to them, Israeli forces had planted a bomb at their front door — an explosive device that would soon take the life of 21-year-old Rahaf al-Ashqar, one of over 70 Palestinians killed during Israel’s ongoing assault on the northern #WestBank.

Her father, Fuad al-Ashqar, recalled to Mondoweiss that he and Rahaf were sitting in the living room when she told him to look out the window. “There are wires on the pillars of the house. What are those wires?” Rahaf had said.

Before he could respond, she sprang from the couch in a panic, running towards the door, shouting, “Baba, they want to blow up the house!”

Moments later, Rahaf was dead

#Palestine #IOF #ForcedDisplacement #Apartheid #Genocide #Testimonies #OPT

🇵🇸 Four reasons why Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being accepted by the world | Mondoweiss

Only three months ago, nobody anticipated that soon 40,000 Palestinians would be displaced from their homes with no return in sight.

Even more unexpected was Israel’s continued widening of its campaign to new parts of the West Bank. But what was the least expected of all was that it would happen with little or no reaction — locally, regionally, and internationally.

Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the #WestBank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in #Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since 1948.

#Palestine #EthnicCleansing #Apartheid #Genocide #ForcedDisplacement #oPt

🇵🇸 Louis Theroux: The Settlers

"Still, Theroux’s achievement is profound. His film enables a much wider understanding that Israel’s barbaric settler-colonial project is incompatible with the much-vaunted proposition that Israel shares western values and is the “only democracy in the Middle East”. 

This ought to have political consequences. Why hasn’t #Britain sanctioned settler leaders #ItamarBenGvir, #Smotrich and many others? How on earth does Prime Minister Keir Starmer get away with claiming that Israel is not an apartheid state? Why does his government refuse to recognise a Palestinian state? "

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/louis-theroux-forces-britain-face-uncomfortable-truth-israeli-settler-barbarism

#documentary #bds #Palestine #Settlers #Zionism #Colonisation #Apartheid #oPt #WestBank

🇵🇸 Israel to take full control of land registry in West Bank's Area C, cementing annexation | MEE

Israel’s cabinet has for the first time voted to take sole responsibility for land registration in #AreaC of the occupied West Bank, a decision that has been described as effective Israeli annexation of the majority of Palestinian land.

Under the 1995 #OsloAgreement, the West Bank was divided into three areas, with the Palestinian Authority (#PA) exerting limited control of areas A and B, while Israel took full control of Area C. The latter area forms 60 percent of total land in the territory.

On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet agreed that in Area C, Israel would now make all decisions about land, and any Palestinian efforts to recognise land using its own land registry would be legally void.

#Palestine #WestBank #Colonisation #Annexation #Apartheid

Max Blumenthal: #AI, Arms, and #Apartheid: How Tech Fuels israel’s Gaza Genocide

In an interview on “Palestine Talks” by TRT World, Max Blumenthal dissects israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, exposing Western complicity and the profit-driven motives behind arms and tech industries. He reveals how Europe’s belated condemnations stem from fear of refugee crises, not moral reckoning, and details israel’s use of AI and military tactics to perpetuate atrocities. Blumenthal also examines the growing pariah status of israel globally and the societal fractures within its borders.

@TheGrayzoneNews

🇵🇸Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank | Mondoweiss

Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the #WestBank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem.

#Palestine #Apartheid #Genocide

🇵🇸Francesca Albanese urges businesses to end Israel ties to stop "economy of genocide" | HRC59

UN expert has called on corporations to cut ties with Israel and for executives to be held accountable for enabling and profiting from crimes including illegal #occupation, #apartheid and #genocide in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Francesca Albanese's call for action comes in a scathing new report in which she names over 60 companies, including major technology firms like #Google, #Amazon and #Microsoft, alleging their involvement in what she calls "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".

"By shedding light on the political economy of an occupation turned genocidal, the report reveals how the forever-occupation has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and #BigTech . . . while investors and private and public institutions profit freely," Albanese writes in the report.

Tech firms and corporations profiting from Israeli 'economy of genocide' | MEE