1/ Since words actually mean things, a thread of actual pogroms carried out in past few months. They were all carried out by Israelis, with the backing of the Israeli state, against Palestinian villages in the West Bank.
2/ On 4 Nov: Around dawn, Israeli settlers attacked near the Jabal Tawil area in Al-Bireh, near downtown Ramallah, West Bank.
Settlers burned 18 cars and 1 apartments belonging to Palestinians.
3/ On 15 Sep: Settler thugs attack Palestinians' homes in Al-Khalil, West Bank.
4/ On 6 Sep: Setller militias attacked Khirbet Abu Falah, Ramallah, West Bank. They invaded the village, set fire to property, sprayed on the walls - "revenge", and "administrative" (arrests).
5/ On 16 Aug: Dozens of Israeli settlers launched a pogrom on the village of Jit, east Qalqilya. The 4th attack on the village since Oct 23. 4 houses, 6 cars were torched. 23y/o Rashid Abdulqader Al-Sadda was shot dead by settlers while trying to fend-off the attack on his home.
6/ On 6 Aug: Settlers set fire to dozens of vehicles in a car lot in the village of Yatma (يتما) south Nablus. The settlers also burned an olive grove and tried to set fire to a house.
7/ Om 29 July: Israeli settlers burn a number of vehicles and sprayed racist slogans in Qalqas village near Hebron.
8/ On 18 June: Israeli Jewish settlers attack the Palestinian village of Burin, southern Nablus to burn vehicles and assault Palestinian drivers.
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There are other important Israeli quote websites, such as the @Law4Palestine database of genocidal intent (the elegant front end was created by @visualizingpal).
1/ We are done talking about @Namecheap. They released the domain they stole from us. They did not refund anything or even apologize.
This has been horrific, and we will take many steps to lessen the impact of such deplatforms in the future, based on lessons learned.
2/ I will write an article about Namecheap's censorship.
I don't normally write, as it is a distraction from software development, archival, and managing a team of people. But this seems like a moment that needs clarifying.
A lot happened in the past few days.
3/ We will be releasing a desktop app before the end of this year.
We chose web apps to avoid censorship (compared to a mobile app) but web apps can be shut down too.
I believe @Namecheap paid a reputational and financial price, but they still took down our app, for days.
3/ We were told we were being deplatformed not for our archival work, but because we weren't the right type of content creator, or perhaps fraud concerns?
Note the stated reasons for the deplatform. (From their original email.)