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Israel-Linked Group Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestinian Artists on Spotify

Project Censored 

“We Believe in Israel,” a subsidiary of Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) in the United Kingdom, has been attempting to remove Palestinian and pro-Palestinian artists from the music streaming giant Spotify. MintPress News senior staff writer Alan MacLeod reported that the group has been lobbying Spotify and the UK government. The group’s connections to the state of Israel remain obscure, MacLeod reported, noting that the group has “conceded that they work closely with the Israeli Embassy but insist they are not directed by them.” The group is directed by former arms lobbyist and Labour Party operative Luke Akehurst. Rachel Blain, the campaign manager for We Believe in Israel, spearheaded the operation. 

Israel’s Sick Sense of Humour

Socialist Project

Israel’s war on Gaza, is aided and abetted by AI (artificial intelligence). AI powers three different programs (Lavender, The Gospel, Where’s Daddy) that generate and pinpoint targets for assassination in Gaza. Right after 7 Oct 2023, Lavender targeted 37,000 Palestinians as suspected ‘militants’ and targeted them and their homes and families for potential air strikes. But as far as Lavender goes, a member of the Israeli military noted, there is a major problem, “if the [Hamas] target gave [his phone] to his son, his older brother, or just a random man. That person will be bombed in his house with his family. This happened often…” These are called ‘errors’. At least 10% of Palestinians killed in air strikes are ‘errors’ – because Lavender is only supposed to target men (as they are assumed to be the ‘militants’), and sometimes Lavender marks people as targets who have no connection or very limited connection with ‘militants’.

'I was fired for speaking out': Ex-staff slam big tech's Gaza censorship

TRT World

For three years, Saima Akhter, 38, worked as a data analyst at Meta, but her job came to a swift end when she started to question what she called a "company policy" to censor content related to Palestine amid Israel's genocide in besieged Gaza. "Meta is censoring Palestine, supporting Israeli apartheid and silencing its employees," Akhter tells TRT World, accusing the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp of labelling conversations around Palestine as "disruptive" and removing them from its social media platforms. Previously known as Facebook, the multinational technology company also owns and operates Threads, a challenger to X. The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel has also exposed online censorship and the role of Meta and other platforms in hawking a one-sided narrative of the violence.

Resisting Amazon's digital genocide machine

Progressive International

At the heart of Amazon’s dystopian entanglements lies Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli state that epitomises the marriage of Big Tech and state-sponsored genocide. Alongside Google, Amazon provides the infrastructure, AI, and data capabilities enabling Israel’s militarised surveillance of Palestinians. Through tools like facial recognition, predictive policing, and real-time tracking, Project Nimbus has become the backbone of a digital regime that targets, disenfranchises, and destroys. This destruction does not discriminate, targeting non-combatants, women and children, journalists, aid workers, and even United Nations personnel.

TikTok isn’t anti-Israel: It’s hired Unit 8200 agents to run its affairs

MR Online

Likewise, for all the discussion that it is a hotbed of anti-Semitic prejudice turning the youth against Israel, this MintPress News investigation has found that TikTok has hired a myriad of former spooks from Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200, the Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) most controversial organization. Responsible for covert operations, spying, surveillance and cyber warfare, Unit 8200 has created a vast digital surveillance dragnet for Palestinians, uses AI-generated kill lists to target Gazans, and pioneered worldwide spying software used against politicians, activists, journalists and world leaders. It was widely reported to be behind the recent Lebanese pager attack that injured thousands of civilians.