Tuesday, January 23, 12:00 PM EDT - livestream and in person at the Jerusalem Fund, 2425 Virginia Avenue Northwest Washington, DC

Digital Rights Under Siege: Combating Online Censorship of Palestinians

A Conversation with Nadim Nashif, Executive Director of 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media

By The Jerusalem Fund

7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media works towards a free, fair, and safe digital space for all Palestinians. However, since the beginning of the War on Gaza, that has become increasingly more difficult. Censorship of Palestinian voices and narratives on social media is at an all time high, while incitement to violence and anti-Palestinian racism spreads rampantly across many prominent platforms.

Furthermore, 7amleh has documented a rise in AI-driven dehumanization of Palestinians, as generative AI tools mistranslated the Arabic word for "Palestinian" into "Palestinian Terrorist" on Instagram, and image generators produced depictions of Arab children with guns from the simple prompt of "Palestinian" on WhatsApp. These are just a few of the ways in which the digital space has been weaponized against Palestinians in this time of tragedy. Nadim will speak to all of this and more, as well as what is being done to fight digital discrimination and hate directed at Palestinians.

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