As Israel’s assault on Lebanon deepens, Ghida returns to Darwish, Beirut, and the politics of enforced forgetfulness to ask what remembering can do against repetition, erasure, and a world order built on both.
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In a world saturated with images of Gaza, what remains hardest to grasp is often the ordinary: routines, interruption, fear. Sometimes the most political writing is the one that refuses spectacle and trusts that daily life under siege is enough.
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India’s silence on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon reflects a broader shift from anti-colonial solidarity to alignment with Israel and the US, driven by ethnonationalism, Islamophobia, and opportunism.
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Versions of this article were first published in Arabic on @7iber and English on @tech4palestine . This edited version is published on UntoldMag with permission.
Tools like “Lavender”- an AI system used to mass-generate kill lists in Gaza-
run on infrastructure built and funded by Silicon Valley.
In her investigation, journalist @reemalmasri exposes how Silicon Valley’s expansionist drive merges with Israel’s settler-colonial project.
In March 2024, Google acquired Wiz, a startup founded by Unit 8200 alumni,
for $32 billion.
It was the biggest deal in Google’s history.
Not just about cybersecurity.
About alignment.
Google doesn’t just admire Israel’s “miracle state”,
it hires from its military elite.
Unit 8200 veterans now serve as directors in Google Cloud.
Big Tech is, literally, staffed by the occupation.
In 2021, Google & Amazon signed Project Nimbus,
a $1.2B contract to provide cloud services to Israel’s military.
Today, those systems help run surveillance, targeting, and real-time ops across Gaza.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft.
Silicon Valley powers the war.
Billions in deals.
Unit 8200 veterans on payroll.
AI systems generating kill lists.
It’s an infrastructure for occupation. ⬇️
Published as part of the dossier Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, produced in partnership with Disruption Network Lab.
The article shows how the SWANA region functions under conditions where surveillance technologies, AI-enabled moderation, and digital governance are tested in moments of crisis - revealing the material consequences of platform design.
Across these cases, automated moderation, policy rollbacks, and uneven enforcement do not operate outside politics. They align platforms with state power, securitisation agendas, and militarised governance.
In Palestine, long-documented patterns of content removal, shadowbanning, and disproportionate compliance with Israeli takedown requests have systematically limited the visibility of Palestinian documentation of violence.
In Sudan, TikTok’s recommendation systems amplified videos produced by the Rapid Support Forces that documented and glorified atrocities during the Darfur genocide - allowing violent content to circulate, gain engagement, and be replicated across platforms.
In Tunisia, xenophobic state rhetoric intersected with permissive platform environments. After President Kaïs Saïed’s February 2023 speech, online incitement translated into anti-Black violence, arbitrary arrests, and forced deportations.
Rather than framing online harm as a failure of moderation, this article conceptualises technoviolence as a structural condition: violence embedded in profiling, classification, visibility, and enforcement - long before it appears as spectacle.
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Abu Calypse. A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times.
The comic has been created by the UntoldMag collective together with artist Francesca Cogni, who also designed it”
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Ep. 1 in thread below.
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“The history of the so-called West is a history of endless wars”. As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran widens, this piece asks us to read contemporary atrocity as continuity - the colonial afterlife of domination, racial hierarchy, and endless war.
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Recognition still arrives as aftermath, never protection. As U.S.-Israeli war expands across the region, Zina Q. reminds us: this delay is not bureaucratic failure, but racial design. Empire does not fail to see - it chooses when we count.
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Israel has nukes and no oversight. Iran signed the NPT and is bombed on suspicion. Lebanon is treated as a disposable front.
This is not a deviation from the order. It is the order.
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One benchmark is the nuclear sector: clear protected activities, formal complaint pathways, real enforcement.
Her conclusion: whistleblowers are an early-warning system for AI - but the system is still leaving them exposed.