Mona Shtaya

Mona Shtaya is a Palestinian digital rights defender working in the MENA region. She works as an advocacy advisor at 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, and is currently an MA candidate in Social Media and Digital Communications at the University of Westminster.

Recent Articles
Prominent Palestinian activist Muna el-Kurd and her brother Mohammed return to their home in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, after being detained and interrogated by Israeli police, June 6, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
Who gets to speak out against their occupier on social media?
Social media giants are taking action to protect Ukrainians' free speech as they resist a military occupation. Why aren't they doing the same for Palestinians?
By Mona Shtaya March 22, 2022
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  4. The unexceptional violence of Israel’s ‘Haredi battalion’
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  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen
  3. ‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across West Bank
  4. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  5. The unexceptional violence of Israel’s ‘Haredi battalion’
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  3. Even without a UN veto, Gaza remains hostage to American power
  4. Why do Israelis feel so threatened by a ceasefire?
  5. The spiraling absurdity of Germany's pro-Israel fanaticism