Palestine Digital Activism Forum 2026 Launches its 10th Edition: The Battle Over the Palestinian Digital Narrative in the Information Age

February 11, 2026, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, announced the launch of the 10th edition of the Palestine Digital Activism Forum (PDAF), which will take place over two days, on March 30-31, 2026, in a hybrid format that combines virtual sessions with in-person workshops organized in collaboration with academic institutions and local partners in various Palestinian cities.

This year’s Forum carries the theme: “The Battle Over the Palestinian Digital Narrative in the Information Age.” It comes at a time of intensifying efforts to erase the Palestinian narrative, dismantle collective memory, and manipulate public consciousness through technological tools and digital platforms, amid a political reality where genocide intersects with algorithms, and human voices are subject to machine-driven censorship.

The Forum is being held at a critical moment, where control over the Palestinian digital narrative is increasingly tied to survival, and the digital space has become a battlefield for existence. Against this backdrop, PDAF 2026 creates a space for dialogue and collective action-empowering activists, journalists, creatives, and researchers to produce evidence-based narratives that can resist distortion and manipulation, and reach global audiences with strategic and ethical tools.

In this critical context, controlling the narrative has become directly tied to survival. PDAF 2026 creates a space for joint analysis, learning, and mobilization. It equips activists, journalists, technologists, and storytellers with practical tools to challenge digital erasure, build ethical and resilient narratives, and counter coordinated efforts to distort or silence Palestinian voices online.

The Forum will open with a dynamic blend of artistic and intellectual reflections, followed by sessions that interrogate the politics of narrative production: who has the authority to speak, how legitimacy is shaped, and how visibility is managed in the digital realm. It will highlight the complicity of big tech in reinforcing political bias, while showcasing the use of open-source intelligence (OSINT), investigative journalism, and verification methods as tools of resilience and truth-telling.

On Day Two, PDAF shifts to field-based learning, hosting in-person workshops in Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem. These sessions will explore critical topics such as content verification, algorithmic discrimination, community-driven storytelling, citizen journalism, memory preservation, AI, and grassroots organizing.

In parallel, a range of online interactive workshops will tackle urgent issues such as the use of AI in propaganda, gender-based digital violence during war, biases in Wikipedia, ethical meme-making, and the politics of tech platform accountability.

PDAF 2026 will feature over 68 speakers and trainers from Palestine, the region, and across the globe, including researchers, journalists, artists, and digital rights advocates who all share a common goal: to defend the Palestinian narrative, hold power to account, and safeguard the right to exist, speak, and be remembered in digital spaces.

This Forum is more than a space for discussion, it is a collective response to the escalating erasure of Palestinian voices. To register and explore the agenda, visit: www.pdaf.net