This groundbreaking book documents how digital platforms and technology companies based in the United States support the Israeli settler-colonial project through censorship. Features an introduction by Steven Salaita,;Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. Through original analysis and careful documentation, Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies at San Francisco State University, traces the timeline from the Sheikh Jarrah uprisings of 2021 to the beginning of October 2023 to the most current developments to explain social media’s role in advancing and suppressing Palestinian narratives. This revealing and alarming book explores what makes anti-colonial counter-narratives across digital platforms so urgent, and what resistance can and must mean in light of the consolidation of Big Tech with Israeli colonialism and genocide.

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OMAR ZAHZAH is a writer, poet, organizer of Lebanese Palestinian descent, and Assistant Professor of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies at San Francisco State University. Omar has covered digital repression in relation to Palestine as a freelance journalist since May 2021, with work appearing in such outlets as Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, CounterPunch, and more. Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA.

STEVEN SALAITA is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. His most recent books are a memoir, An Honest Living, and a novel, Daughter, Son, Assassin. He writes at stevesalaita.com.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements
 
A Note On Process
 
Foreword by Steven Salaita
 
UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL/SETTLER-COLONIALISM
 
Preface: Locating Palestine
 
Rejecting the Language of Silence
 
Formative Years: My Introduction to Digital/Settler-Colonialism
 
Breeding Trolls for the Start Up Colony: Cyber Warfare in the Age of Hasbara 2.0
 
Meta’s Community Standards as a Tool of Digital/Settler-Colonialism
 
Kidnapped Posters Serve Genocidal Sentiment

X Marks the Spot: Digital/Settler-Colonialism and Musk’s Meeting with Netanyahu
 
PARADIGMS OF SUPRESSION, NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE
 
E-Racing Palestine
 
Narrative Shifts and Digital Muzzling: Anti-Colonial Resistance And the Internet Post-Oslo
 
“We Battled the Algorithm and Won”
 
Digital/Settler-Colonialism Goes Global: Zionism and Colonial Humanity in International Culture
 
 
FIGHTING BACK
 
Tech Giants Censor Palestinian Content
 
TikTok Ban Sign of US Imperial Anxiety

Campaign against Project Nimbus gathers steam and supportersWhy Big Tech’s Control of Social Media cannot stop Anti-Colonial Resistance
 
“It’s Never Been about Community Standards:” Samidoun Faces Repression on Social Media
 
Conclusion: Virtual Palestine