Digital erasure: How social media platforms are silencing Palestinians in 2024

Digital erasure: How social media platforms are silencing Palestinians in 2024

A new report shows how Palestinian voices are being silenced online just as global attention is most needed to document war crimes.Originally published on Global VoicesImage via rawpixel. Public domain. As Israel's war on Gaza intensified in 2024, so too did the digital repression of Palestinian voices. A new report from Sada Social, a Palestinian digital rights organization, paints a troubling picture of how mainstream social media platforms — …

It Is Freakish And Insane How Our Society Averts Its Gaze From Gaza

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It can make you feel like you’re going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we’re a year and a half into history’s first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything’s peachy. We’re murdering kids. We’re starving them. We’re dropping high tech military explosives on them. Blowing their limbs off. Ripping their guts out. Shooting them in the head. This…

It Is Freakish And Insane How Our Society Averts Its Gaze From Gaza

It can make you feel like you’re going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we’re a year and a half into history’s first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything’s peachy. We’re murdering kids. We’re starving them. We’re dropping high tech military explosives on them. Blowing their limbs off. Ripping their guts out. Shooting them in the head. This isn’t just being done by “Israel”. It’s being done by the en…

Regardless of whether it can be legally defined as genocide: Israel is committing mass murder – of children.

“The last day of Gaza”, since the beginning of the conflict, October 2023, 52,760 Palestinians have died, 119,264 have been injured, the deafening silence of Meloni, who participates in the purchase of Israel's military technology, Netanyahu prevents the entry of humanitarian aid A real genocide is taking place in Gaza, where children and the Palestinian population are being massacred. Those who survive this annihilation have no food or water, t…