There is no justification for genocide. But Israel lied about 40 beheaded babies to convince the world there was.
Today we launch Oct7FactCheck, a thorough, deeply researched fact check of Oct 7 claims
Incredibly disappointing that
@nvidia
is declining to match employee donations to
@AneraOrg
@ThePCRF
and
@UNRWA
, while still matching donations to organizations that provide support and equipment to the IDF
Hey
@salesforceEQ
you claim to “stand resolutely against Islamophobia” so why is Shai Davidai going to be the Keynote speaker at an event on
@salesforce
company property?
Have you visited - or do you know someone who needs to? The site displays real quotes from Israeli officials about Palestine. Hover over them to see the quote in its original context and learn more about the speaker.
Everyone: Stop the genocide!
Israel:
Israel:
Israel: You know, what this genocide needs is some extortion.
👇Thread on the tech and companies supporting Israel's new low:
Nick Burbank (
@nickburbank710
) is the collective pseudonym of a 6-member research group which produced Oct7FactCheck, comprising a law student, a policy grad student, two intelligence analysts, a veteran, and a tech entrepreneur.
The events of Oct 7 are represented as accurately as possible in a living document that will be updated as new information comes to light. If inaccuracies are present, please let us know - we are invested in ensuring this is a reliable resource now and in the future.
Nick is a member of Tech For Palestine and we are proud to release this research. Israel has used these fabricated atrocity claims to pursue unimaginable violence in Gaza. Our community is setting the record straight
Detailed, well sourced, important read - the latest from
@notechapartheid
details Microsoft's complicity in apartheid and genocide. Project Nimbus and Microsoft's contracts with Elbit Systems join the Wolf Pack, Lavender and Where's Daddy (link below)
Unacceptable
@Google
- you should not be penalizing well designed, impeccably sourced apps for surfacing public information.
@GooglePlay
should review this decision immediately.
We have been suspended from the
@GooglePlay
store for misinformation DESPITE providing a source....
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We did it! The extortion site Israel was using to blackmail Palestinians has been taken down. Thank you to everyone who took the time to report this abuse and alert the companies being exploited.
As World Press Freedom Day draws to a close, we are taking a moment of silence to remember the 141 journalists and media workers killed by Israel as part of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Did you know Namecheap can take down any site on its servers at any time, for any reason, "as determined by Namecheap in its sole and absolute discretion"?
Weird that instead of taking down the IDF extortion site they have now assumed responsibility for hosting it. 1/🧵
What is going on here?? This isn't the only time that
@youtube
has added inappropriate age restrictions - in 2021 they put an age restriction on
@AlJazeera
Arabic. If you have any tips regarding censorship at Youtube, let us know:
✉️ tipline
@techforpalestine
.org
When
@YouTube
age restricts a video, it kills the view count and means it won’t come up as a suggested video. It age-restricted
@macklemore
song on Gaza “Hind’s Hall.” I believe that YouTube wields this tool for censorship.
Every number has a story. Today we launch our open source data platform to uncover the human stories behind Gaza's casualties. How will you use this data to inspire change?
#StorytellingWithData
📊🕊️
#TechforPalestine
Genocide requires intent. And Israel has been patently clear with its objectives: To cripple Hamas terrorists & release the hostages.
@AOC
's accusation lacks proper factual or legal foundation. Such statements merely perpetuate false claims & foster hate.
Thanks for looking into this
@WhatsApp
. What is the status of the investigation into how your info is contributing to Israeli AI targeting programs Lavender and Where's Daddy?
Let's give a round of applause to
@boycatapp
and its users. Their daily efforts are making a real difference, and it's something we can all strive towards.
BOYCOTT UPDATE 🇵🇸
Because of YOU we have passed the 2.5 MILLION MARK in money diverted. 💸
Use boycat to find alternatives, see compliance, find places to shop, save a grocery list, see your scan history, report errors and more all in app!
Tech For Palestine launched 15 days ago and now there are three thousand people working together to change the discourse around Palestine and Palestinians. It is utter chaos and it is awe-inspiring.
Two days ago we let
@SalesforceEQ
know that an event platforming Islamophobe Shai Davidai on their property was putting their brand at risk. Respect to
@salesforce
for their quick response & and their commitment to equality✊
Everything about this is deeply troubling, but this really stands out: "The Shirion Collective describes itself as a 'surveillance network' and boasts of an AI-surveillance platform called Project Maccabee."
According to reports, IOF tech startups managed to raise $1.6 billion in Q1 of 2024 despite the ongoing genocide 🇵🇸 Have you ever thought about the tech you use and how it supports genocide and occupation?
🚨 New Resource Alert! Introducing
#IsItGenocide
- an authoritative, evidence- based, and emotionally powerful tool to help people answer the question of genocidal intent for themselves💡📚
Check it out 👉
Good question - does anyone know the answer to this? tipline
@techforpalestine
.org. Seems like paid propaganda should be against the terms of service.
Why is
@GoogleAds
allowing Israel to promote misinformation on its network? Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs is running ads for a document titled “The UNRWA-Hamas Linkage” on Google, under the site name “terror-links”
A few days ago, in between hospital bombings and neighborhood destruction, flyers dropped and informed Palestinians that their personal information would be exposed if they did not contact the Israeli military
This is disgusting
Today, Israeli forces threw pamphlets over the skies of Deir Balah, blackmailing Gaza residents to reveal their criminal intel and records held by Pal police, if they don’t cooperate with IOF, and also reveal people who gave tips to the police about people->
They say if you keep your expectations low, it's harder to be disappointed, and yet
@Meta
never fails to deliver. The tech giant's new policy on the use of the word "Zionist" is yet another tool to silence anyone speaking out against Israel.
Please, take a moment to report this site to the companies it is exploiting. Namecheap and Webflow handle huge volumes of domain and hosting transactions - it's important to alert them to abuses of their platforms
Please use this from to report "" -- the extortion blackmail website to Webflow.
We want to emphasize that
@webflow
probably doesn't know about the website!
You are helping Webflow, by alerting them to their potential complicity.
Does your company enable the occupation of Palestine behind the scenes? Let us know at tipline
@techforpalestine
.org! You can be fully anonymous and help stop the ongoing genocide. To understand the implications of such support, read what our founder
@paulbiggar
wrote earlier
Google's demand for its employees to develop technology that supports injustice and genocide, while remaining silent about it, is unacceptable. It is evident that corporations like Google prioritize the interests of their shareholders over their stakeholders and show little
Since he resigned, Josh Paul has been working with
@DCIPalestine
and others to challenge the Biden administration's policy on providing lethal weapons to Israel. Powerful words here.
Josh Paul, a former Biden arms transfer official who resigned in protest of “short-sighted, unjust” & “rushed” arms transfers to Israel after Oct 7, stated today that the US government “has actual knowledge” those arms would be used to commit humans rights violations. Video 👇
🚨We aim to end the dehumanization of Palestinians within the tech community and to bring a voice to those who speak up.
How are we doing it ??? 🚨
TFP Official Projects
-
Our mission is to facilitate an accurate understanding of the events of October 7
The team at has worked hard to make information about those killed in Gaza accessible and impactful. Their new tool lets you search for those martyred by their full name:
Salesforce should take its commitment to equality seriously. We are calling on
@SalesforceEQ
and leadership -
@Benioff
@NathScar
@AllyLegend
- to uphold their company values and reject the use of their company property by Islamophobes like Shai Davidai.
Technology should be a force for good to improve humanity, but Israel seems to have missed the memo. Join the TFP community to help make a positive change.
The domain is hosted through
@Namecheap
. Requests to take down the site, which not only extorts individuals but exposes the personal information of minors, have so far been unsuccessful. Ask them about case WGY-955-61050
I’d like to remind
@Namecheap
that time is of the essence ⏳ The Israeli secret service extortion website page is still up and threatens to publish a new batch of victims, including toddlers and children, when the counter is out, in 18 hours. Removal is the first remedy.
Are you Pro-Palestinian but never thought about how the tech you use may be supporting the genocide, ethnic cleansing, and Occupation of the Palestinian People Check out a TFP partner project
So who is
@webflow
?
According to Crunchbase, Webflow is a venture capital funded company run out of San Francisco.
Is Webflow comfortable hosting an extortion blackmail website?
Extortion website is back. It retains the same domain and
@Namecheap
has not meaningfully responded. Please continue to report the abusive website to abuse
@namecheap
.com and refer to complaint WGY-955-61050. 🧵👇
The name of the Telegram channel they were instructed to contact is NewGaza24 - a group responsible for other propaganda leaflets titled "Reality", with the tagline of "In this paper you will read only the truth, nothing else"
5/ This one telling Gazans that 'the future is in your hands' is particularly insulting. This editions advertises an empty telegram channel NewGaza24 (creepy name) with an Israeli numbers.
The so-called "start-up nation" is hurting for investors, with a vast majority of investments going to just six companies in Q2. This doesn't bode well for Israel's ~8,994 other start-ups...
Are you an Amazon shareholder? Votes are due by 21 May to demand a 3rd party investigation into AWS usage via Project Nimbus and how it might contribute to human rights violations in Palestine.
AMAZON SHAREHOLDER CALL TO ACTION: Vote FOR Item 6 to demand a third party investigation on whether Israel’s use of AWS via Project Nimbus contributes to Palestinian human rights violations by enabling apartheid and genocide, or violating international humanitarian law.
Part 1: Respect to the brave students and faculty protesting at universities across the country. How to we help them? We go after the billionaires targeting these protesters. Bill Ackman is one such person.
How the destruction of Gaza would look like if it was in Palembang, Jakarta, London, or New York. What would the destruction of Gaza look like if it was in your city? Go check yourself:
#CeasefireNOW
Google has recently terminated more than 50 employees, including those who were actively involved in protests against the company's $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal with Israel, called Project Nimbus. The CEO, Sundar Pichai, made it clear that Google's primary focus is on
It's been nearly a whole day since
@TalulaSha
submitted ticket WGY-955-61050 to
@Namecheap
informing them that they are hosting a site that extorts Palestinians and publishes the private information of toddlers and children. They're "looking into it", but site is still live.
I’d like to remind
@Namecheap
that time is of the essence ⏳ The Israeli secret service extortion website page is still up and threatens to publish a new batch of victims, including toddlers and children, when the counter is out, in 18 hours. Removal is the first remedy.
🧵 This bold campaign is making it so the UK government can't ignore the protests of its citizens. Just 100,000 people acting on their current legal obligations as UK citizens not to aid or abet genocide could pledge
#notaxforgenocide
& remove ~£700M from gov't budgets
Pledge to withhold your tax - legally. If just 100,000 people pledge, that's real money withheld from the UK government (~£700M!) and that could mean real change in government policy. Take the pledge:
#NOTAXFORGENOCIDE
The new open source dataset platform is more than just a repository of information; it's a call to action. Content creators, analysts, we invite you to engage with the data and tell the stories that need to be heard 🗣️
Remember the Google-Wiz deal that was reported on by every news outlet the world over only to die a quick death? T4P founder
@paulbiggar
breaks down WHY we heard so much about it (and some reasons why it may have fallen through).
Do you know which candidates are pro-peace? TFP partner project 🤝VoteFor Peace lets you enter your address to find the
#ceasefirecandidates
in your district. The primaries are coming up soon, take a look now!
🤯It’s time to question if WhatsApp is a “private” messaging app.
Information about subscribers is being used in Israel’s AI pre-crime system. Read our founder’s impassioned and inquiring blog on the matter.
🚨
As part of this most recent escalation in our public awareness campaign, we should help ensure
@NamecheapCEO
(Richard) is personally aware of
@Namecheap
's complicity.
He might not be aware! Please help him know.
Let's do the right thing
@Namecheap
!
Are you tired of the IOF Occupation? Want to make a difference? Start by deoccupying your mind and educating yourself on how you are occupied through your consumerism. Then, take action with your wallets. Join , a partner project.
Tech For Palestine founder
@paulbiggar
joined
@gregjstoker
on
@MintPressNews
this week to discuss Google's potential acquisition of Wiz. Check it out for insights on how the high-tech world is plugged into Israel, especially Unit 8200.
This is a sobering report from
@EuroMedHR
- all technology centers in the Gaza strip (including those associated with now destroyed universities), and technologists have been systematically targeted.
Execution & killing of technical personnel!
Israeli army has systematically targeted dozens of programmers, information technology experts, and destroying the headquarters of their companies, as part of the ongoing crime of genocide in the
#Gaza
Strip !
🚨 Ever heard of Corsight AI
Corsight developed an AI-based facial recognition application for the Israeli military to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza. According to the New York Times, "Israeli soldiers entering Gaza were given cameras equipped with the
@receipts_lol
@Namecheap
@webflow
As it is currently hosting an extortion website, you may also want to report IP address 198.187.29.29 to an organization like
Thank you to every person who makes the decision to become more visible in their support of Palestine. It makes space for those around you to do the same.
🚨We should all have some questions for Lavender’s predictive targeting system.
💽Where are they getting this data?
📱Is WhatsApp sharing it?
Read Paul’s blog for context on why we’re asking these questions right now
🚨Today in a few hours,
@NoTechApartheid
is hosting a press conference.🚨 Hear from former Google employees who spoke out against Google's support for apartheid and oppression. Spread the word fast and wide.
🚨 BREAKING: When
@guardian
@mck_beth
blocked us, we got curious. Our research uncovered an entire two paragraphs in her article identical to
@NBCNews
article written 6 weeks earlier. We’ve done a side-by-side analysis and also found striking similarities with the “mass r*pe”
🚨TFP partner project
@boycatapp
is being highlighted by
@AJEnglish
. Americans are taking note and being conscious of what they consume and the brands they support. Don't just be a buyer.….be a boycater
⁉ Someone is in a WhatsApp group with a “suspected militant.”
Israel’s AI pre-crime system uses this information in its determinations of who lives and dies.
Demand answers from WhatsApp and its parent company Meta. Read our founder’s take today. ⁉
📊More than 500 venture capital firms signed a public statement in support of Israel and its tech community
@GenocideVC
The country’s technology sector, which represents 18% of GDP, raised nearly $10 billion in funding in 2021 and $1.4 billion in the last quarter alone,
The IDF and State of Israel have employed numerous ways and tactics to conduct the Genocide of the Palestinian people See what the destruction would look like in your community by using and imagine drones using children voices calling for help to kill
These are testimonies of Palestinians who thought they heard children and women screaming for help in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, only to realize that the cries were coming from an Israeli drone broadcasting distress calls to lure them out so it could shoot them.
Occupation steals dignity, but together we code resistance! 💪 Join
#TechforPalestine
& build tools for freedom. 🇵🇸 Empower Palestinians with tech for education, mental health & economic opportunity. Present the world with facts & create alternatives!
Barbara Lee is one of the
#ceasefirecandidates
in the California primary. Learn more about the ceasefire candidates in your state, county, district, and even city, with . Developed by one of our partner projects,
@VoteForPeaceUSA
As California’s next US Senator, I will continue to stand on principle—even if I’m standing alone.
Just like I did then when I voted against the invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11.
Just like I am now in calling for a permanent, unconditional ceasefire in Gaza.
Who is
@Disoccupied1
?!?!
If you’ve committed to shopping more consciously, you’re already on the right path. Let’s remember to support and uplift each other as we strive to make a positive difference together. 🇵🇸✊🏼
Tell us how shopping consciously has made an impact on you and
We did it! Site is down - Thank you to everyone who took the time to day "this isn't right" and report the extortion site to
@Namecheap
@webflow
and
@make_hq
I believe it is a common misconception to say that protesting against the genocide will make you lose your job. Not true unless your employer is one of the enabler.
I had this
@tech4palestine
badge for months in my GitHub profile. I am still fine.
Namecheap is now actively hosting the IDF's extortion/blackmail website. You read that correctly, it isn't just a domain registration anymore.
How do we know Namecheap is now hosting the extortion website?
Let's start with the where the domain points:
We can also see that the extortion site changed their DNS settings to point to Namecheap hosting at almost 2am, Jerusalem time, on the 23rd of May hours after Webflow deplatformed them.
(Funny to imagine that office at 2am when they finally gave up in defeat.)
@Haaretz
@webflow
@make_hq
In their new incarnation, the extortion website also includes an X account. Please report account
@alkasheffgaza
for threatening to share/expose private information.
🌎Israeli startup Mentee Robotics has recently unveiled a prototype of a general-purpose robot that is marketing to the retail consumer as being able perform various household chores such as cleaning dishes, doing laundry, and even working in warehouses. The robot is designed to
@receipts_lol
@Namecheap
@webflow
@Namecheap
has not yet responded to complaint # WGY-955-61050. Given the new responsibilities Namecheap has assumed on behalf of the extortion website, , we encourage you to submit additional abuse reports: