New 7amleh Report: Meta Monetizes Settlements and Violence Against Palestinians

April 13, 2026, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has released a new report titled “Monetizing Occupation: Meta’s Financial Enablement of Settlement Activity and Violent Rhetoric Against Palestinians.” The report reveals how Meta allows Israeli far-right pages, settler-affiliated accounts, and extremist media outlets to generate revenue through its platforms, despite publishing violent, racist, and inciting content against Palestinians, and despite many being directly linked to promoting illegal settlement expansion, as well as widespread violence and attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.

The report finds that the issue goes beyond Meta’s failure to remove or limit such content; it extends to financially enabling it through monetization programs. In doing so, the company not only tolerates violent and inciting speech but actively incentivizes its production and spread, violating its own monetization and content policies, disregarding its responsibilities under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and contravening international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

The report presents a representative sample of monetized Israeli right-wing pages and accounts, including those linked to the settlement movement, far-right public figures, and media outlets known for incitement. It also documents cases involving entities that should be ineligible for monetization under Meta’s own policies, such as government bodies. The sample includes pages that promote illegal outposts, justify settler violence, mock Palestinian victims, call for forced displacement, or celebrate destruction and genocide in Gaza.

In contrast, the report highlights that Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip remain comprehensively excluded from eligibility for monetization on Meta’s platforms, solely based on their geographic location. This means that Palestinian journalists, content creators, media outlets, and civil society organizations are structurally denied access to economic tools available to others even when their content is professional and policy-compliant. This exclusion intersects with disproportionate content moderation practices targeting Palestinian content, including removals, restrictions, reduced visibility, and account suspensions, further marginalizing Palestinian voices in digital spaces.

The report concludes that this reality creates a dual system: on one hand, Palestinian digital and economic participation is suppressed; on the other, pages that promote settlement activity, violence, and incitement against Palestinians are financially rewarded.

This report comes amid the ongoing escalation of settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank, and the genocide in Gaza, in a context of continued grave violations against Palestinians. In this environment, digital incitement intersects with forced displacement, targeting of civilians, and the expansion of impunity. 7amleh warns that monetizing such content cannot be considered a technical flaw or procedural gap, but rather a practice that incentivizes harmful content, normalizes violations, and amplifies their impact.

Accordingly, 7amleh calls on Meta to end the comprehensive exclusion of Palestinians from monetization programs, ensure fair and transparent enforcement of its policies across all regions in line with international law, and prevent pages and accounts that promote racist incitement and violence from profiting on its platforms. The organization also calls for independent and regular audits of monetized accounts, accessible and fair appeals mechanisms, and increased transparency regarding monetization eligibility, as well as decisions related to demonetization, suspension, and reinstatement.

To read the full report, visit the link here.