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#notechforapartheid

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Kit 🔻

In addition, Booking workers say NO to workplace retaliation and discrimination:

"We demand explicit assurance that employees are free to express solidarity with the Palestinian people without fear of retaliation, discrimination, or the application of double standards. This includes but is not limited to public expression, workplace discussion, and conscientious refusals to participate in activities that contradict such views."

Should be a given, because any such workplace discrimination & retaliation is prohibited under Dutch law, but hey :dunno: you never know

#TechWorkers#Booking#NoTechForApartheid
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Kit 🔻

What would it look like for Booking to cease complicity in the illegal occupation of Palestine?

Booking workers demand, concretely:

  1. Remove the more than 50, currently bookable properties on illegally occupied Palestinian land from Booking.com’s platforms
  2. Suspend all operations in Booking.com’s Tel Aviv office, which offers material support for apartheid and war crimes
  3. Carry out a transparent audit of any AI or dual‑use technologies developed, deployed, or supported by the Tel Aviv office, with independent oversight and remedial action
#TechWorkers#Booking#NoTechForApartheid
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Kit 🔻

The workers' core demand is that Booking should cease its complicity in the illegal zionist occupation of Palestine:

"We demand the company discloses all ties to the illegal Israeli occupation and immediately ceases its business relationship with apartheid Israel and adhere to international law as outlined in the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights"

#Booking#TechWorkers#NoTechForApartheid
Kit 🔻

Booking workers issue a statement, calling on the company to quit its human rights abuses

"Statement

As employees, we call on the business to hold itself to its own standards. We call on Booking.com to stop infringing on the human rights of the Palestinian people and to immediately seek to mitigate and remediate the human rights impacts caused by or linked to its business operations."

stopbookingapartheid.org/state

#Booking#NoTechForApartheid#FreePalestine
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on #Microsoft’s servers in Europe

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham
Wed 6 Aug 2025 07.00 EDT

According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in #Gaza and the #WestBank.

Thanks to the control it exerts over #Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, #Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.

theguardian.com/world/2025/aug

#NoTechForApartheid
#EmbargoBlockadeIsrael
#news #press #politics @palestine

The Guardian · ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of PalestiniansBy Harry Davies
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Hundreds call for arms embargo in protests at factories complicit in #Israel's genocide in Gaza

from #Canary
By Ed Sykes 18 June 2025

"On 17 June, hundreds of people attended protests outside arms factories complicit in the #US-#Israeli genocide in #Gaza. They went to Sheffield, Rochester, and Havant to call for an immediate arms embargo. This comes as one poll suggests over half of people in #Britain back such an embargo."

thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/

#EmbargoBlockadeIsrael
#NoTechForApartheid
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#ExpelIsraelFromUN
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics #UK @palestine @israel

Canary · Hundreds call for arms embargo in protests at factories complicit in Israel's genocide in GazaWe urgently need an arms embargo on Israel, and we need as many people as possible to get active in demanding one
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Pro-#Palestinian activists clash with police at Seattle Microsoft event

from #TheSeattleTimes
May 19, 2025 at 12:42 pm
Updated May 19, 2025 at 4:32 pm

"Seattle police arrested one demonstrator after a crowd of dozens tried to push into the #Seattle Convention Center, where hundreds had gathered for #Microsoft Build. Several demonstrators were doused with pepper spray.

Demonstrators ultimately left the convention center at 1:30 p.m., returning to downtown Seattle’s Westlake Park where they had rallied earlier in the day."

seattletimes.com/business/micr

#NoTechForApartheid
#FoodAsWeapon
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press #politics @palestine

The Seattle Times · Pro-Palestinian activists clash with police at Seattle Microsoft eventDemonstrators opposed to Microsoft's work for the Israeli government attempted Monday to push their way into the tech giant's annual software conference in Seattle.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#Microsoft employee interrupts CEO’s keynote with pro-#Palestinian protest

Protester is engineer who worked on Azure software, which enabled #Israeli surveillance of Palestinians

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Johana Bhuiyan
Mon 19 May 2025 14.27 EDT

"“As one of the largest companies in the world, Microsoft has immeasurable power to do the right thing: demand an end to this senseless tragedy, or we will cease our technological support for Israel,” read the email... “If leadership continues to ignore this demand, I promise that it won’t go unnoticed. The world has already woken up to our complicity and is turning against us. The boycotts will increase and our image will continue to spiral into disrepair.”"

theguardian.com/technology/202

#NoTechForApartheid
#FoodAsWeapon
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press #politics @palestine

The Guardian · Microsoft employee interrupts CEO’s keynote with pro-Palestinian protestBy Johana Bhuiyan
Mar 🔥

🧯 #XR Justice Now! has drenched Booking.com’s HQ in fake blood, calling out the company for funding and legitimizing illegal settlements in Palestinian territories.

🔨 This follows past protests, including last year’s building blockade and the bold October 2024 action when another group smashed their windows and splattered them with red paint.

🥳 On the exact day Booking.com finished replacing their windows, we thought it would be a nice moment to celebrate the re-opening of their main entrance and to show Booking.com that we will continue our campaign until they comply with our demands.

#Intifada#NoTechForApartheid#Palestine
MaximilianBlum

Wieso greift das in dt. Medien niemand auf, bis heute nicht!? Wir (fast :)) Alle nutzen #google und vergeben Aufträge an Google - es geht uns sehr wohl etwas an. aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/w "The terms Israel set for the project contractually forbid Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure. The tech companies are also forbidden from denying service to any particular government entities."(en:wikipedia) Brief des Protestbündnisses: dair-institute.org/blog/palest #NoTechForApartheid

Al Jazeera · What is Project Nimbus, and why are Google workers protesting Israel deal?By Al Jazeera Staff
Kathy Reid

I haven't done a #Connection #Connections list for a while where I bring you interesting accounts from across the :fediverse:, so let's start Saturday morning with that - and #coffee of course.

There were some really interesting folx at #Monktoberfest this week judging by the comments on the hashtag, including my all time fave @phire. Jenny is a writer, a socio-technologist and someone I admire greatly. You should follow her. @ag_dubs has super interesting takes on #Opensource supply chains and you should follow them too. @eamon seems super interesting and is into #prometheus and #k8s. 👋

@asilata is into #maths, and loves #sourdough baking 👋

@huertanix is into press freedom and mechanical #keyboards (ohai from my KeyChron 8 mapped using keyd with glow in the dark keycaps) and #infosec 👋

@The0rangeMan is an organiser for #NoTechForApartheid 👋

@rubenerd is into #FreeBSD and #NetBSD 👋

@fenwick is a #Professor at #Concordia and author of Internet Daemons - which questions how much transparency and oversight we're handing over to autonomous agents. 👋

@miskaknapek is into information #vizualisation and has a really engaging website! 👋

@Andy_Tattersall is a #researcher and research trainer and did a thought-provoking post recently on which disciplines have moved from X/Twitter to other platforms 👋

That's all for today, hope you all have a great day and let's continue to build a more deeply connected --- if we want to --- social network ❤️

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Fenneladon Privacyasaurus

Worldwide, we have a gang violence problem.

Gangs of violent domestic extremists, armed with batons, chemical weapons, and bullets, targeting children, teachers, and other civilians across the western world for brutal gang attacks.

Gangs of violent domestic extremists, working internationally in solidarity with terrorist regimes committing and materially supporting genocide.

Despite what you may have heard, none of these gangs were ever defunded or abolished after their last round of international rioting in solidarity with the gang lynchings and the mass human rights abuses by their friends. They were instead massively re-funded and re-armed.

In case there was ever any doubt, I stand with the civilians wherever they are. I stand for human rights. I stand against genocide. I stand against apartheid. I stand against the existence of armed gangs of domestic terrorists.

#FreePalestine#EndTheGenocide#NoTechForApartheid
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