Not only does the platform censor Palestinian voices, it’s profiting from the sale of Israeli settlements built on stolen land, by allowing them to be marketed & sold on the platform. The international consensus is settlements are international crimes. 1/3
Adding insult to injury, I was targeted with these ads (likely bc I’ve been monitoring Israeli gov disinformation efforts on the platform).
Two settlements are built on land forcefully stolen from my grandparents.
I’d be shot if I even try visiting that land. 2/3
.@Facebook recently committed to a human rights policy based on the UNGPs. Allowing these ads, which means the platforms are profiting from war crimes, violates these policies & goes against policies banning selling stolen goods.
Will FB respect it’s commitments& ban these ads?
Note: The settlements advertised in the Ad is called Ofarim, between the Palestinian villages of Rantis and Shoqb, and built on land belonging to those towns. It’s within the “Green Line”, clearly inside the West Bank.
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Dangerous suppression: Yesterday unknown actors engaged in a disinformation campaign targeting youth activist Tareq Khudeiri, leading to death threats against him.
Then the Palestinian Authority Security Forces arrested him — and now he is a political prisoner.(1/5)
The video was initially shared by a suspicious account of someone who claims they are an Israeli researcher; but spreads propaganda.
It pushed divisive claims that Tareq had chanted curse words at former President Arafat. Clear evidence shows he did not. 2/5
But this type of polarizing disinformation is a key tactic that ignites civil strife, and gives the PA’s oppressive security forces an excuse to target youth activists. 3/5
Palestinian youth, along with a broad range of civil society and other groups, are calling for a national strike on Tuesday across all of historical Palestine.
This is a significant development for multiple reasons. (Thread)
1. It is breaking decades of political fragmentation where Palestinian actors in each subdivision (WB, #Gaza, 48 areas), acted individually.
The youth’s initiative to refuse to allow this fragmentation to continue, if it succeeds, further builds up unity not seen in decades. 2/
2. Whereas the last month’s developments mainly included young people, this allows a broader swath of society to engage. This is key at this moment, expanding agency to meet demographics. 3/
Here’s one powerful thing the @AP can do in response to Israel’s destruction of its offices in #Gaza:
Mobilize the @APFactCheck team to start fact-checking statements made by the Israeli military & politicians. Almost none of Facebook’s US based fact-checking partners… (1/2)
….are engaging in fact-checking disinfo coming from the region, even though a majority of IL’s strat-comms revolves around maintaining a subset of Americans deeply misinformed about this conflict.
IDF: Israeli Disinformation Forces? I am glad @halbfinger wrote about this, but he missed three key things in this article. (Thread) #Gaza_Under_Attack
1. First, the article makes it seem like it is rare for the Israeli military to disinform the foreign press. But in fact there are numerous examples of the foreign press taking false Israeli statements and narratives and spreading them without fact-checking. The FP MUST…. 2/
… fact-check every statement the Israeli military makes. Not fact-checking IDF statements, and I don’t just mean during war time, violates journalistic standards. Let’s make sure this mistake doesn’t happen again @nytimes 3/
Members of #Congress need to see this — men from the Israeli lynch mobs attacking Palestinians appear to be brandishing similar “Punisher”symbols to those the Proud Boys & others who attacked the US Capitol wore. @AOC@RashidaTlaib@IlhanMN@CoriBush 1/3
The ideology of ethno-nationalism is a threat to democracy and human dignity everywhere. We need to understand the context of attacks on Palestinians as an extension of these dangerous beliefs. 2/
Many ethno-nationalists see #Israel as a model of the type of government they want to create in the US. I hope this allows members of Congress who came under attack 4 months ago to empathize with what Palestinians are facing today. 3/3