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@rashaar.bsky.social
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Palestinian🇵🇸 Independent expert on tech & human rights: Big Tech accountability, AI, surveillance, children’s digital rights. Anti-racist, decolonial approaches. Prev: ED @PeoplevsBigTech.bsky.social; Director @AmnestyTech. Board @FairSqProjects. My views.

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Leandro Ucciferri @leandro.im · 28/10/2025
Today I’m attending the 4D Conference in Barcelona—feels nice to join a digital rights event without taking a flight for a change. This morning starts strong with @rashaar.bsky.social presenting on the state of affairs of EU regulation and the road ahead to hold Big Tech accountable.
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 25/10/2025
Today Simona Levi @xnet-x.net interviews @rashaar.bsky.social about surveillance technology sold by Israel: 🎙️ "Europe talks about ethics while buying technology for control and repression tested in contexts of systemic violence."
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Combat-Tested on the Palestine’ Population Technology Bargain
Rasha Abdul Rahim, Palestinian tech justice activist, interviewed by Simona Levi, founder of Xnet, Institute for Democratic Digitalisation.
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 25/10/2025
Simona Levi @xnet-x.net entrevista a @rashaar.bsky.social en @ctxt.es sobre tecnología de vigilancia que vende Israel probada en combate sobre población palestina. "Estas herramientas asignan puntuaciones a individuos según su supuesta probabilidad de pertenecer a grupos militantes" #Conferencia4D
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“Europa integra en su aparato de seguridad las tecnologías de vigilancia masiva que Israel prueba en Palestina”
Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
$145 million won’t save Israel’s image. No amount of AI manipulation or influencer shilling or money can erase Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76 years of apartheid. Israel is a state built on stolen land and slaughter. The world isn’t just waking up. It’s wide awake, and sickened.
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 01/10/2025
⏳ Cuenta atrás para nuestra #Conferencia4D: La cita imprescindible sobre #DigitalizaciónDemocrática 🎙️ Conferencia inaugural a cargo de @rashaar.bsky.social: activista palestina, estratega en tecnología, DDHH y justicia social. 📍 28/10 | BCN 🎟️ Gratis, con inscripción: 4d.cat/es/conferenc...
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is HUGE. @microsoft.com has terminated the Israeli military’s access to tech it used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls in Gaza/West Bank. @awscloud.bsky.social, Google: it’s high time you did the same. Well done @theguardian.com & +972 Mag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Al Jazeera reporting the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A genocidal campaign by the Israeli regime, enabled by world powers. A grotesque unraveling of humanity, a bloodstain history will never wash clean.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Or do you make small talk to mask the overwhelming and all-encompassing agony you feel, because if you acknowledge or express it you will collapse beneath the weight of your grief? Then you catch yourself and feel so guilty because this is nothing compared the pain and suffering of people in Gaza.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
And then you’re expected to get on with your life as normal when there is absolutely nothing normal about this level of barbarism and suffering? What do you say when people ask you how you’re doing? Do you tell them the truth about your suffocating pain, rage and heartache?
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Do you know how it feels to witness your people being bombed, shot, starved and abused viciously and relentlessly for the past 21 months? To wake up and fall asleep to images of lifeless, bloodied babies, starving infants and the corpses of men and women strewn on the ground? 🧵
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Joe Westby @joewestby.eurosky.social · 03/07/2025
🧵Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump. New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
Big Tech poll infographic and survey results
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 03/07/2025
🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't. @ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech? peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Leading legal experts and scholars have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examination of a complaint relating to the holding of matches in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣 We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. fairsq.org/fifa-continu...
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FIFA continues to stall and misrepresent over Israel sanctions
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evide...
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Woah, did the UK, Canada and France just threaten sanctions on #Israel? #Gaza www.gov.uk/government/n...
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our new report now out finds serious shortcomings in the way in which Saudi Arabia investigates and verifies migrant worker deaths. fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
FairSquare co director @lynchj.bsky.social in conversation with the BBC Today programme on our prediction of a surge in unexplained deaths in Saudi Arabia.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Pretty incredible news here as a jury awards a massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group in a precedent-setting case. Amazing to see reverberations of impact from the Pegasus Project years after we published 🥳🎉🎊 www.courthousenews.com/meta-wins-16...
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Meta wins $168 million in damages from Israeli cyberintel firm in Whatsapp spyware scandal
The jury’s award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the well-known spyware vendor.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨 Funding opportunity! The Spyware Accountability Initiative supports civil society organisations fighting spyware abuse, through regulation, litigation, research and investigation, and other means. Learn more and apply by 13 June at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institutionalizing and legitimizing it.” Must read: mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
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Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law
The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institut...
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Tottenham UK More ad activism.
A photo of a series of Tesla charging station. A cardboard image of Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute, has been placed on each charging station
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Tanya O'Carroll @tanya.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025
Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
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One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone
Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025
Join us for a convo about the future of social media – how open protocols & algorithmic pluralism can change things for the better! 🤓💪 Ft. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com @sherifea.com Register: smokesignal.events/did:plc:haqw... Stream: streamyard.com/watch/uhdM7f...
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The Next Social Wave: Open, Competitive and User-Controlled
Starts at 03/21/25 04:00 pm CET. For years, social media has been dominated by a handful of companies, shaping how information flows and limiting innovation. The dangers have never been clearer. But ...
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This utterly broke me today. 18,000 children (and counting) killed by #Israel. The pain is unfathomable. #Gaza
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil is being held in a prison without being accused of a crime for being “antisemitic” by criticizing Netanyahu and Israel’s actions against Palestinian civilians while Trump strips Chuck Schumer of his Jewish identity using “Palestinian” as a slur. 1/3 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
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Lawrence on Trump's 'vile, antisemitic' attack on Schumer: Trump's mind is gone. It is shattered.
In the Oval Office today, Donald Trump used “Palestinian” as a slur and said the highest-ranking Jewish elected official, Chuck Schumer, is “not Jewish.” Those comments went unchallenged by the report...
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Civilians in Gaza didn’t do any of that. On the other hand, the IDF did all those abhorrent acts you list. Yet no repercussions at all for Israel. Hamas is not preventing humanitarian aid from entering, that’s a lie. Back in your box, Greg 👋🏼
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Yes I would like to think so!
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I didn’t say I don’t want a two-state solution.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“You take what you can get” is not something Israelis would accept so why do you expect Palestinians to accept that? The blockade did not start in response to attacks. Israel had no intention of withdrawing from the Strip and everyone knows that.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I agree. Also it did not start on October 7th.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
No, not because of attacks. I believe it‘s only possible to discuss a long-term solution once the illegal occupation ends, the system of apartheid is dismantled and the genocide stops. You cannot negotiate with the boot of the oppressor on your throat.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Neither of those things are true. How do you expect Palestinians to accept a so-called two-state solution while Israel continues to expand its settlements? Gaza has been under blockade for more than 17 years. The difference between you and I is that I state facts while you repeat propaganda.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Israel illegally occupies Palestinian land. Israel imposes a brutal system of apartheid that treats Palestinians as subhumans. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. These criminal acts have been recognised by various international courts and have been going on for decades.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I don’t wonder. I know it’s down to double standards racism.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Not true. But you enjoy believing lies if that helps you feel better.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Yet more propaganda. I’m so bored of this.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
You expect Palestinians to live under illegal military occupation, a brutal system of apartheid, and a genocide in Gaza. No chance. That’s why there is suffering. There is no peace without all those things ending, and the sooner people like you understand that, the sooner we can move forward.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
That’s not true. What else have you got, other than propaganda and lies?
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
You’re completely deluded.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My grandparents and great grand parents and great great grandparents and great great great grandparents (you get the idea) were born in Palestine. All the Israeli propaganda and talking points will never change that fact. We refuse to live under the boot of the coloniser.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Who broke the ceasefire, multiple times? Who is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, where there is no Hamas? Let me answer that for you: Israel.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Where to begin… *Palestinians* belong in Palestine (clue is in the name). It’s clear you’re severely brainwashed and have no clue about history. Israelis are the colonisers (see Balfour Declaration). How about Israelis stop illegally occupying Palestinian land, inflicting apartheid and genocide?
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Repeating Israel’s propaganda and talking points doesn’t make them true. That’s all you’ve got because you’re profoundly racist and ignorant.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
No. This is not just another “war”. It is a decades-long brutal occupation, apartheid system and ongoing genocide. Israel has been flagrantly breaking international law and tearing up the rules-based order with impunity for years. And this impacts Europe and the entire world.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If Europe cannot even defend the basics of international law, human rights and dignity that it so prides its foundation on, or even stop an active #genocide, how on earth can it lead anyone? Indeed, many European states are actively supporting the genocide. Disappointing and utterly shameful.
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rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
And all of this during the Holy month of Ramadan. While Europe grapples with the reality that it cannot rely on the US to be the leader “of the free world” and reckons with the challenge of taking up this new role, it is abundantly clear that it is incapable of doing so.
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