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As Israel’s assault on Lebanon deepens, Ghida returns to Darwish, Beirut, and the politics of enforced forgetfulness to ask what remembering can do against repetition, erasure, and a world order built on both. f.mtr.cool/mdxkeeymld #Lebanon #Beirut

In a world saturated with images of Gaza, what remains hardest to grasp is often the ordinary: routines, care, interruption, fear. Sometimes the most political writing is the one that refuses spectacle and trusts that daily life under siege is enough. f.mtr.cool/aehawipgae

India’s silence on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon reflects a broader shift from anti-colonial solidarity to alignment with Israel and the US, driven by ethnonationalism, Islamophobia, and opportunism. f.mtr.cool/qmasvwtnvc #India #Gaza

@reemalmasri 🔗 Read: f.mtr.cool/hvrjnsxqpc Versions of this article were first published in Arabic on @7iber  and English on @tech4palestine . This edited version is published on UntoldMag with permission.

Tools like “Lavender”- an AI system used to mass-generate kill lists in Gaza- run on infrastructure built and funded by Silicon Valley. In her investigation, journalist @reemalmasri  exposes how Silicon Valley’s expansionist drive merges with Israel’s settler-colonial project.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft. Silicon Valley powers the war. Billions in deals. Unit 8200 veterans on payroll. AI systems generating kill lists. It’s an infrastructure for occupation. ⬇️

Published as part of the dossier Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, produced in partnership with Disruption Network Lab.

The article shows how the SWANA region functions under conditions where surveillance technologies, AI-enabled moderation, and digital governance are tested in moments of crisis - revealing the material consequences of platform design.

Rather than framing online harm as a failure of moderation, this article conceptualises technoviolence as a structural condition: violence embedded in profiling, classification, visibility, and enforcement - long before it appears as spectacle. f.mtr.cool/pczeforxct