Join us Wednesday, 3/11 at 2:00 pm ET for 'Gaza Speaks', an In Context Briefing featuring voices from Gaza alongside international legal, humanitarian, and policy analysts. The event is sponsored by Just Vision, @theimeu.bsky.social & @jewishcurrents.bsky.social.
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REVEALED: ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months
Leaked documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft's cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images.
By Yuval Abraham. @mekomit.bsky.social
www.972mag.com/ice-microsof...
Last year, an investigation by Local Call, @972mag.com & @theguardian.com showed that Microsoft’s servers were used to store masses of Israeli intelligence on Palestinian civilians.
A new investigation raises concerns about whether the company's technology is facilitating ICE crackdowns in the US.
After an intense period of production, we are now thrilled to begin editing the film. Stay tuned for updates by signing up for our newsletter >>
Our next film will explore how grassroots movements made this unprecedented moment possible, and what it tells us about the relationship between movement building and political power.
By the time Mamdani announced his bid to become the mayor of New York City, we were the only independent filmmakers with a front-row seat to his history-making journey taking on the political establishment.
One of those elected officials was then-New York State Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, who was told his political career was over as a result of his commitment to Palestinian human rights.
For more than two decades, Just Vision has been covering underreported stories related to Israel-Palestine. For our next documentary, we wanted to explore the widening disconnect between American politicians and their constituents on this issue.
After two and a half years of steady work behind the scenes, we're excited to share more about Just Vision's next documentary!
You can learn more in @newyorker.com, which just profiled the film in an interview with director and Just Vision’s Creative Director, Julia Bacha:
In an interview with @972mag.com & Local Call last year, UNRWA’s commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini framed the ongoing Israeli attacks on UNRWA as not just as part of an assault on Palestinian refugees and the right of return, but as an “attack on Palestinian history [and] identity.”
TODAY: Israeli authorities demolish UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem. Video by Oren Ziv for @972mag.com & Local Call.
Israeli gov has banned the agency, the main humanitarian org for Palestinian refugees, from operating in Jerusalem, where it had run schools, clinics, & training centers for decades.
Until his final day, Mohammad Bakri would not be crushed
Israel’s courts, military, and mainstream media united to punish the Palestinian actor and filmmaker for giving voice to his people. But he remained unbroken to the end.
www.972mag.com/mohammad-bak...
Judge William Young already held that the Trump admin violated the First Amendment by arresting and trying to deport these students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. Today he’ll consider @aaup.org & @mesa1966.bsky.social’s request for an injunction and other relief. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
As settlers evict families from their homes in an East Jerusalem neighborhood, a community art project called I Witness Silwan ensures that they are always being watched.
"These aren’t police officers but criminals, gangs. They drive through the village, throw stun grenades, fire tear gas, & keep driving."
With the pretext of a stolen horse, Israeli police have turned the Bedouin town Tarabin Al-Sana into a war zone.
Oren Ziv reports at Local Call & @972mag.com >>
Journalist Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, describes how Palestinians are watched, tracked and targeted by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details through constant surveillance.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12/mohammed_mhawish
A harrowing account by Mohammed Mhawish on surveillance tech, supported in part by US tech companies, is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside.
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Israel’s military assault that began in the aftermath of October 7 has left Gaza unrecognizable. The devastation has been augmented by a system of surveillance: drones, facial-recognition scans, movements followed through phone tracking, Mohammed Mhawish reports.
@mohamhawish.bsky.social's 'Watched, Tracked, and Targeted' is the first story produced by the Palestine Reporting Lab, a new project incubating in-depth, ground-up journalism about Palestine & Palestinian communities.
See link to learn more or get in touch with ideas for stories & collaborations:
"This is the dystopian consequence of surveillance technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized."
@mohamhawish.bsky.social writes at @nymag.com >>
In a special photo essay for Local Call & @972mag.com, Oren Ziv gathered testimonies from the victims of this violence in the West Bank — mostly Palestinians, but also Israeli activists.
Read their stories here >> projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...
NEW from Local Call, @972mag.com, @theguardian.com: At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention centers since 10/7, many seemingly as direct result of torture, medical neglect & food deprivation.
Of those detained from Gaza under 1-in-3 were classified by the army itself as militants.
Companies are often forbidden from telling customers when they hand over data to authorities. To counter this, Israel reportedly worked with Google & Amazon on a secret system to alert the government when Israeli data is given to foreign investigators. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
INVESTIGATION: Inside Project Nimbus
To secure the lucrative contract, Google & Amazon agreed to secretly notify Israel if a foreign court demands its data, and disregard their own terms of service.
By Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/project-nimb...
@mekomit.bsky.social
"The first prohibits Google and Amazon from restricting how Israel uses their products…. The second obliges the companies to secretly notify Israel if a court orders them to hand over the country’s data stored on their cloud platforms…."
www.972mag.com/project-nimb...
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
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Legal experts described this arrangement as highly unusual, explaining it could violate the companies’ legal obligations in the US. Israeli officials appeared recognize this, noting that the companies would have to choose between “violating the contract or violating their legal obligations.”
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Israeli officials worried that companies could be ordered to hand over its data to assist with an investigation — e.g. if the use of their products were linked to human rights abuses. So they inserted a clause requiring the companies to covertly warn them if they're forced to surrender data.
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NEW INVESTIGATION: To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, Google and Amazon agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data.
@972mag.com @theguardian.com @mekomit.bsky.social
