Digital Genocide EXPOSED: Big Tech, Surveillance and Automated Killing

Episode 2. of Occupied Tech deep dives into the world of digital rights, surveillance and the escalating cyber warfare against Palestinians. From Israel’s systemic digital apartheid to what experts now call “digital genocide,” this conversation sheds light on how tech is weaponised as a tool of oppression.

Host Paul Biggar is joined by Eric Sype, national organiser at 7amleh https://7amleh.org/ The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media. Together, they unpack how Israel routinely disrupts Palestinian ICT infrastructure with a “kill switch,” how Big Tech enables censorship and mass surveillance and how digital repression plays out on platforms like Meta, Google and PayPal.
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Occupied Tech is a podcast by Tech for Palestine in collaboration with Palestine Deep Dive. Each episode explores how the global tech industry fuels Israel’s apartheid, occupation, and genocide, while also highlighting the brave individuals and organisations working to dismantle this system of oppression.
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0:00 – Intro: Israel’s digital kill switch
1:20 – Welcome back to Occupied Tech
1:50 – Eric Sype introduces 7amleh
4:58 – What are digital rights?
8:30 – What is digital occupation?
12:10 – West Bank: Palestinians vs Israeli settlers
15:00 – Rebuilding under digital siege
17:20 – Israel’s total control over ICT infrastructure
20:00 – ICT blackouts and war crime cover-ups
22:00 – AI Genocide: Lavender and “Where’s Daddy”
24:50 – Big Tech’s complicity in human rights violations
28:00 – Meta’s censorship double standards
30:30 – “Terrorism” lists and content suppression
33:00 – Silencing students and pro-Palestine voices
36:00 – Resistance and international law
42:40 – Meta employees fired for supporting Palestine
46:50 – Are all tech companies complicit?
48:00 – Anti-Zionist Jewish tech workers under pressure
52:20 – Conflating Zionism and Judaism at Big Tech
57:00 – Zuckerberg’s hypocrisy on hate speech
1:00:17 – Google’s role in erasing Palestine
1:07:00 – PayPal discriminates against Palestinians
1:07:50 – Cisco, Intel, and Palantir’s roles in oppression
1:10:55 – Supporting 7amleh’s vital work