#NoTechForApartheid
On November 27, 2023 we co-hosted a #NoTechForApartheid virtual event with Haymarket Books, to amplify the #NoTechForApartheid movement started by Google and Amazon workers. This page collates some resources from the event's participants.
Our blog summarizing the #NoTechForApartheid event
This short blog summarizes what was covered in the event. We highly recommend that you watch the recordings, but if you want a quick summary, you can read this post.
Palestine unplugged: how Israel disrupts Gaza’s internet
Marwa Fatafta described how internet shutdowns and deliberate targeting of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure by Israeli bombing isolate Palestinians. Read the Access Now report she co-authored on the topic.
Tainted narratives: tech giants harming users in war time
Mona Shtaya described the manner in which social media platforms systematically silence and dehumanize Palestinian voices. She was shadowbanned by Instagram after posting an analysis on the topic.
Israel and occupied Palestinian territories: an automated apartheid
Matt Mahmoudi described the manner in which face recognition is used to dehumanize Palestinians. Read the Amnesty International report he co-authored on the topic.
Book: Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence
Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer edited this book, and our Marwa Fatafta wrote a chapter. You can also attend their event on February 15, 2024.
Book: The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Antony Loewenstein discussed the technology developed through experimentation on Palestinians and exported around the world. Find his book on the topic on Verso Books, and read this interview by Thomas Le Bonniec (French, English).
When Polaroid workers fought apartheid
Our panelist Caroline Hunter, co-founder of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement launched in 1970, walked us through her journey to anti-apartheid activism and starting the divestment movement against apartheid South Africa in the US.
Google’s complicity in Israeli apartheid
Our panelist Ariel Koren was pushed out of Google in 2022 for organizing on behalf of the #NoTechForApartheid and Drop Nimbus campaigns. Read her letter on Google's complicity in Israeli apartheid.