Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet
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Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un…).
It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.
Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.
I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.
I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.
“Farage as a 13-year-old classmate would say ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’ to him … They could only identify us, because we had to go to this stupid Jewish service in the science labs school. I mean, none of us were remotely religious. They would hang out there. Farage would hang out with his minions. And then they would taunt us as we would leave … He was nasty, there was no question. [The song] Gas ’e
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Your daily reminder that antisemitism and support of the genocidal settler-colonial ideology of Zionism and of Israel are two very separate things.
Case in point, Nigel Farage (Zionist, friend of Israel, denies Israel’s committing genocide in Gaza):
“The level of disrespect, even abuse, that is now being shown to Israel is reaching astonishing proportions.” – Nigel Farage
“Farage as a 13-year-old classmate would say ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’ to him … They could only identify us, because we had to go to this stupid Jewish service in the science labs school. I mean, none of us were remotely religious. They would hang out there. Farage would hang out with his minions. And then they would taunt us as we would leave … He was nasty, there was no question. [The song] Gas ’em all, I heard him singing it…”
Hello there. Today we had a three-way meeting with @aral and my sister @joynewacc &me. "We were in the same room." I am very happy that I finally met Aral, whom my sister talks to me about very often . I also have a link to cover my registration fees for the first semester of medical school, which amounts to $2500. I am trying to secure a university tuition installment plan so I don't get delayed. If you would like to help me, this’s donation link.
Rain has begun pouring over the Gaza Strip, drenching the already crumbling makeshift tents of displaced families.
Within minutes, tents across the Strip were flooded, further worsening the dire living conditions of those enduring over two years of genocide and displacement.
People in Gaza are starving as israel doing everything in the power to restrict and block entry of high energy food into Gaza.
Even frozen chicken is destroyed because Israel blocking the shipment and forcing the trucks to turn off their freezer and then wait for hours before entering
Y’all know me❤️ These days, I’m extremely busy with my household responsibilities: "preparing food, lighting the fire, & tutoring my little brother." My mom is taking care of my grandmother, who recently suffered a fracture, & I am currently the stand-in soldierin here
If you would like to support me until I can be out & find a job to help my family, here’s the donation link. (The donations for the shelter rent, & the costs of food, drink, & clothes)
What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
Hello everyone, I am sharing with you the books that my sister, @Nourfuturedr, spent two years studying in order to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor.
I started pushing her campaign after my mother and I made the decision to save significantly on our food and drink expenses. This is so we can afford to cover her registration fees for the first semester of medical school.
The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Something happened to me recently, and I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's truly a shameful thing. Two days ago, I joined the writing platform #substack & even though @aral & @fabio told me it wasn't a good platform for me, being Palestinian, I decided to interact on it and post my poems there. I was subjected to awful abuse in all verbal forms by Zionists there. But I preferred to remain silent instead of arguing with any fools. Today, the platform’s banned me!
“Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia”
Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
