A dark background with smoke from bombings on the top. In the left hand corner below, a woman with a headscarf and a man holding a bundled baby are spotlighted, in the right hand corner outlines of youth and children walking with the energy of resistance in their step. A wall in the background delineates boundary and being closed in. A soldier, a person under attack, a flag, are another part of this collage of images entitled "pinkwash", which also has a pink women's symbol to the left and above.

Author

Hija Kamran

“Through its propaganda, Israel is aiming to break Palestinian souls, to break us as human beings.” These were the words of one of the speakers at the webinar, “Palestinian Feminist Voices: Atrocities Propaganda and Gendered Disinformation”, that Noor, Take Back The Tech! (TBTT) and GenderIT hosted on March 14. These discussions illustrated the weaponisation of atrocities propaganda and gendered disinformation that, amidst the inhuman murder and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, Israel is employing to target every one of over 14 million Palestinians around the world. Six Palestinian feminist activists – human rights defenders, academics, researchers and content creators – shared how they are experiencing and consistently challenging Israeli atrocities propaganda on the internet, and highlighting Palestine’s history and decades of settler colonialism and theft of their land. 

Moderated by Islam Al Khatib – a Palestinian researcher working with Noor, and co-facilitated by GenderIT’s editor Hija Kamran, the webinar aimed to explore the impact of weaponisation of social media platforms and advanced technology like artificial intelligence by Israeli propaganda machinery on Palestinians around the world, especially Palestinian women.

Read the full article on GenderIT.



Image by Ward Zaraa