Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة

Interested in learning about how to protect civilians impacted by digital warfare? Join us virtually on June 4 for a panel w/ HRC's @betsypopken.bsky.social, @marwasf.bsky.social from @accessnow.org, @7amleh.bsky.social & others! 📅 6/4 ⌚ 9 AM PST 📍 Zoom berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This was a difficult, but necessary listen esp in light of the escalations this week. Appreciate the analysis from @docmattmoudi.bsky.social @marwasf.bsky.social and @alixdunn.com's team for not shying away from what we need to face. csm.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-...

Last week we hosted a live show on AI and warfare, going deep on the use of AI in Gaza, and it's now live on our Computer Says Maybe feed. Exceptional group of guests: @marwasf.bsky.social, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, Karen Palacio (aka kardaver), and Wanda Muñoz. Essential if difficult listening.

Given Germany's panic over Palestine solidarity, it's clear what clothing the Berlinale will deem "not compatible with the liberal democratic basic order." (Yup, this is a real rule: www.kbb.eu/en/hausordnung – and yup, artists are striking: filmworkersforpalestine.org#strikeberlin...)

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

“Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools.” @suzannesmalley.bsky.social therecord.media/how-italy-be...

Impunity breeds more crime. Fourteen months of non-stop mass slaughter, shielded and supported by western powers, had unleashed Israel’s genocidal mania on full display. Good luck reigning back this monster.

Cybercrime laws across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are being weaponized to stifle dissent + crush freedoms – going beyond combating real crimes. The new @UN Cybercrime treaty could legitimize these abuses. www.accessnow.org/arab-region-...

Hamra, Beirut where last night’s Israeli strike took place hours before the ceasefire. Looks like it hit a currency exchange shop. Many displaced families in the commercial neighborhood have already packed up to return to southern Lebanon and Beirut southern suburbs.

People are returning in the thousands to their villages in Lebanon. Land is not just property: It envelopes memory, community and identity. In this unstable region, the concept of home transcends space and time. It is existential. Personal. Political.

Our lives have been a one long intractable war interrupted by short intervals of ceasefires and not the other way around. We will never know peace until liberation from Israel‘s oppression and domination.

I hope the ceasefire in Lebanon holds. But there will be no peace as long as Israel maintains this ludicrous right to preemptively attack sovereign states if it wishes so. apnews.com/article/isra...

Ceasefire went into effect. So many feelings but first and foremost: tired. People are tired. Thousands of cars heading south from displacement to check on their homes. #Lebanon

BREAKING: The ICC issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. AT LAST. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Imagine losing 50 to 100 members of your community every day for over a year. How can one grasp the scale of killing and loss of life in Gaza? Beyond the murdered are the injured, missing, amputated, disabled, elderly, children, and pregnant—imagine the unimaginable suffering they endure daily.

The death toll from tonight’s massacres in Gaza is nearing 100 people.

Yesterday, Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat was injured in an Israeli double tap strike on a home in Gaza, where he had rushed to report on the first airstrike. Shabat says he was deliberately targeted in the second airstrike, and he has reason to believe so. #حسام_شبات #الجزيرة #غزة

Access Now: İsrail'in Filistin'e yönelik dijital işgaline karşı mücadele 🗣️ @marwasf.bsky.social: "İsrail, Gazze ve Filistinlileri kendi teknolojileri için bir test laboratuvarı olarak kullanarak, dünyaya yapay zekâ destekli yeni ve tehlikeli bir savaş planı sunuyor." bianet.org/haber/access...

Shout out to the brave folks at @notechforapartheid.bsky.social. Follow them for updates on big tech complicity in Israel’s genocide + support their campaign to hold these companies to account.

Inspired by workers organizing @techwontsave.us 👀 " @parismarx.com is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it." techwontsave.us/episode/235_...

Meet Google's Genocide Czar: Thomas Kurian! Google Cloud's CEO is an industry leader in the deployment of AI for occupation & genocide—providing cutting-edge cloud computing tech via Project Nimbus to Israel's military, & enabling them to massacre hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza

Another list for folks who’re searching for Palestinian accounts to follow on this platform.

This is all that remains of Al Najjar hospital in Rafah. The extent of the devastation only now coming to light because it is in the Israeli military controlled area. There must be accountability for the depraved, illegal destruction of this hospital.

In other disgraceful news from Germany.

‘Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign ministrer, also praised the US move. “Self-defence means that you don’t wait until rockets hit a children’s hospital”’ -  unless it’s in Gaza or Lebanon, in which case you send more rockets to the perpetrator.’ on.ft.com/3AVru5h

Israel murdered 46 people in Gaza today.

Rightly put, the system of international justice is on trial. For over a year now, Israel & the US have been unraveling the post-WWII global order before our eyes. The threats and attacks they’re directing against the ICC, already a paralyzed body, is a case in point. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/turm...

Different platform, same censorship. There is no safe space for Palestinians, neither offline or online.

If you’re migrating to this platform and looking for Palestinian voices and Palestine-related news, check this list of starter packs on Palestine here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

This dangerous bill is brought back after it was blocked last week.

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

Contrary to what NSO Group has claimed for years, court documents from the ongoing US litigation between NSO and WhatsApp reveal that the spyware maker is the one that “installs and extracts” information from targeted mobile devices. NSO knows who the victims are. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...