The Google & Amazon contract for cloud tech, #ProjectNimbus, helps entrench Israel's regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid & occupation.
It assists the Israeli state & military in carrying out violence & ethnic cleansing against Indigenous Palestinians.
Heeding the Palestinian call to end corporate profiteering from apartheid, activists, workers, and shareholders globally call on Google & Amazon to end Project Nimbus.
Non-assistance to crimes against humanity is an international duty. #NoTechForApartheid
Corporate tech giants are complicit in denial of workers rights, surveillance and militarization.
We need to build intersectional, global campaigns for justice. Let’s develop the #NoTechForApartheid campaign, linking effective Palestine solidarity with these struggles.
In 2021, Google and Amazon workers wrote to management, urging them to end this contract. Recently, shareholders also demanded an end to these contracts in stockholders' meetings.
Students oppose the use of their talent to serve apartheid.
- Mobilize campus unions to challenge Google & Amazon’s complicity
- Build protests and exhibitions
- Join days of action
- Open the discussion on free & open-source software
- Write to the companies to end Project Nimbus
Number of Palestinians in Israeli prisons
(Data excludes Palestinians arrested/kidnapped from Gaza)
Since 7 October :
⚠️Over 9,840 Palestinians have been arrested.
⚠️Approximately 340 Palestinian women have been arrested. More than 85 are still incarcerated.
⚠️ Approximately 680 Palestinian children have been arrested. 250 are still incarcerated.
⚠️ Israel has issued over 7,500 administrative detention orders, including new and renewed orders.
The UN Human Rights Office published a report on 31 July detailing the horrific torture and treatment of Palestinian prisoners:
“Detainees said they were held in cage-like facilities, stripped naked for prolonged periods, wearing only diapers. Their testimonies told of prolonged blindfolding, deprivation of food, sleep and water, and being subjected to electric shocks and being burnt with cigarettes. Some detainees said dogs were released on them, and others said they were subjected to waterboarding, or that their hands were tied and they were suspended from the ceiling. Some women and men also spoke of sexual and gender-based violence.”
Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians Accelerating its Economic Collapse.
#ShutDownNation
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A leading Israeli paper revealed on Wednesday that 46,000 Israeli businesses have shut down since the start of Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3m Palestinians.
This is the strongest indicator to date of the accelerating and “very serious” damage to the Israeli economy. #ShutDownNation
As things are going, Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid may not live to “celebrate its centennial,” according to a recent report by Eugene Kandel, former head of Israel’s National Economic Council at the PM's Office, and Ron Tzur, who was a senior government official.
They paint “a picture of total failure in the systems, management and operations of the [Israeli] administration … a collapse.”
Today marks 19 years since the historic call from the largest Palestinian coalition to boycott, divest from, and impose sanctions on Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism, apartheid, and now genocide.
For our 19th anniversary we have highlighted a sample of significant BDS impacts since the beginning of Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip.
Over the last 19 years, the BDS movement has built a massive network worldwide, supported by trade unions, farmers’ coalitions, as well as racial, social, gender and climate justice movements, together representing tens of millions.
It has had a large impact on isolating apartheid Israel, including by making large multinationals, like G4S, Veolia, Orange, HP, PUMA, and others totally or partially end their complicity in its crimes against Indigenous Palestinians.
Answering some of the most frequently asked questions about the #BDS movement’s boycott targets.
The BDS movement carefully evaluates and prioritises targeted companies based on the level of their complicity in Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, among other targeting criteria.
If new information comes to light indicating that a company is significantly contributing to Israel’s genocide or its regime of settler-colonial apartheid, we will consider prioritizing it.
Imposing US sanctions on Israel, once taboo, is finally mainstreaming. Calls for trade sanctions, canceling arms shipments, or conditioning military sales are now rising even among dozens of Congress members & former senior White House officials.
For 6 months, the US has been arming, funding and diplomatically shielding Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in occupied & besieged Gaza. Polls show that at least 52% of Americans now support stopping all arms shipments to Israel.
Longtime Democratic leader and AIPAC-beneficiary Nancy Pelosi is among the 56+ members of Congress urging Biden to suspend arms transfers to Israel over the “harm to innocent [Palestinian] civilians in Gaza” and the deadly attacks on humanitarian aid workers.
US VP Kamala Harris said: “People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane & our common humanity compels us to act.” Affirming starving Palestinians in Gaza were met with Israeli gunfire, Harris said Israel must allow more aid in, “no excuses.”
What is the “excuse” then for the US government partnering in Israel’s #GazaGenocide, excluding itself from any “common humanity.”
It arms, funds and defends Israel’s genocide, preventing a ceasefire and any form of accountability to international law.
All 2.3M Palestinians in occupied Gaza are hungry & over half a million are “starving,” according to UN experts. By defunding UNRWA, the colonial West led by the US is directly starving Palestinians, according to @LemkinInstitute for Genocide Prevention.