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Human rights defender and computer networking pioneer Anriette Esterhuysen speaks at 7amleh's Palestine Digital Activism Forum, Ramallah, West Bank, January 18, 2018. (Courtesy of 7amleh)

Social media giants feel the heat at Palestinian digital conference

At the Palestine Digital Activism Forum, representatives from both Google and Facebook faced a crowd that demanded to know why the two companies cooperate with Israel’s attempts at silencing Palestinians. Not long after the Arab Spring began, social media companies rushed to embrace the popular narrative that their platforms had the potential to change societies and reform…

By Joshua Leifer January 18, 2018

Palestinians pass through the Israeli army checkpoint at Qalandiya, March 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

50 things that have been around for less time than the occupation

How much has the world changed since Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory began in 1967? The occupation, as we are all too well aware, is about to turn 50. It’s difficult to grasp just how significant a period of time five decades is — especially when we’re trying to imagine the durability of a state of…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 21, 2017

COMIC: Google Glass for the Gaza gaze

By Eli Valley Eli Valley is a writer and artist whose work has been published in New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Saveur, Haaretz and elsewhere. He is currently finishing his first novel. Eli’s website is www.EVComics.com and he tweets at @elivalley. More from Eli Valley: What if Mahmoud was named Jonah? A Passover lesson: ‘And then we were free’…

By +972 Magazine July 25, 2014

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Racist ‘Kahane was right’ app now available on Google Play

UPDATE: As of Monday morning (Israel time) Google Play has removed the app. Baruch Marzel, Jewish supremacist and former student of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, posted on Facebook last night (Saturday) that there is now an app on Google Play where you can read quotes from the rabbi. I couldn’t believe it, so I…

By Ami Kaufman June 30, 2013

Ben Zygier, alleged Mossad Agent who was found dead in his cell in 2010 (photo: ABC Australia)

‘Prisoner X’: Censorship and gag orders in the age of new media

The ‘Prisoner X’ affair was sensitive enough for Israel to use all of its censorship tools at once: the military censor, gag orders and the ‘editors committee.’ But was the effort by the Prime Minister’s Office entirely about national security, or did it have to do with protecting those responsible for the mess? And what should…

By Noam Sheizaf February 13, 2013

Google Street View car in the Settlement of Elkana, The West Bank

Google Street View to feature West Bank settlements

Google Street View was launched in Israel last April, after a long battle with the Defense Ministry over the blurring of military facilities located in the Israeli cities. Lately, Google cars have been spotted in West Bank settlements as well. Here is a picture taken in Elkana, located in the western part of the Samarian hills near…

By Noam Sheizaf September 27, 2012

Activists to use Google Streets car to protest occupation

The interior ministry here has finally allowed Google to deploy it infamous periscoped buggy, so that even people far, far away can experience driving through Tel Aviv’s streets one. inch. at. a. time – just like in real life. Bemused residents elsewhere in the world have already come up with various ways to protests this…

By Dimi Reider August 24, 2011