mia moraru’s Reviews > The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World > Status Update

yoram hazony among many who criticize opponents of SA apartheid & milosevic’s serbia. insane.
‘This kind of toxic ideology fuels Israel’s daily reality in Pal by propagating the lie that Palestinians are inherently violent and irrational: Israel needs to keep them in a high-tech cage because the alternative is genocide against the Jews.’
and that’s exactly the fucking rhetoric of 3rd reich

Modi had fb remove posts critical of his govt.
but then so much genocidal rhetoric against muslims in india is left up on FB
spokespeople always say diff things and always hypocritical, changes situation based.
Andrew Bosworth (Meta officer) admitted there’s ‘a cost’ but they “believe so deeply in the connectiveness of social media etc.” ugh.

‘The role of social media platforms in this febrile context swiftly becomes a matter of life and death. And yet most of them are unwilling to act responsibly…Ultimately, if people die, who’s responsible at FB or Insta, and who would be held accountable? The answer is that it’s likely nobody would take the fall.’

for ex posts about Al-Aqsa mosque attacks (by IOF & settlers) were mass removed bc FB ‘had mistakenly designated it as a location associated with a terrorist organization’ insane.
these companies have no real incentive to correct these/have better measures. always profit>ppl.
Israeli official stated that goal of Nimbus was so german govt unable to access info on IDF for the ICC.

facebook & other socmedia censor palestinian and oppressed groups WAY MORE. blame it on less arabic speakers, there r usually israelis in top positions at FB etc, they can claim it’s a ‘technical glitch’, 2021 leaked docs proved that FB execs ‘didn’t want to curtail extreme speech against minority groups in fear of offending conservative partners’ VOMIT

so many cases of israeli hacking tech used by fucked up people.
used ti target american BDS supporters, lgbtq//ppl using grindr in indonesia and azerbaijan, harvey weinstein to kill media stories of his assaults, isabel dos santos to dig dirt on angola govt, ROMANIAN SENIOR OFFICIAL to target the top corruption prosecutor (laura kovesi) in 2016!!!!!!!

‘Cellebrite tech was used frequently by US law enforcement to hack into smartphones…’

the list of israeli cyber security firms is looooong.
even those that aren’t israeli owned but hire many israeli / former iof staff.

Verint Systems (israeli), Psy-Group (“) (mission to expose US BDS supporters), DarkMatter (emirati)

Cellebrite— another israeli company that’s less well known. hacking phones at short distance (vs NSO which mainly does long distance).
has been used in Botswana, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Uganda. Hungary, Ethiopia.
operates w no israeli oversight bc of technicality - it’s labeled as dual-use civilian services and not as a security related export. INSANE

‘One of the enduring myths about NSO, and many of its competitors, is that it’s a private company looking to make a profit with no formal ties to the Israeli state…constantly pushed by the Israeli government.’

Pegasus and other tools have been used by countless countries to spy on dissidents, HR activists, etc. in India especially, in Togo, etc. whatsapp messages are hacked, pretty much anything on peoples phones is accessible, and uses them to arrest people for any criticism etc