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13. Resisting Cybercide, Strengthening Solidarity: Standing up to Israel’s Digital Occupation

Chapter of: For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group(pp. 211–220)

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Title13. Resisting Cybercide, Strengthening Solidarity: Standing up to Israel’s Digital Occupation
ContributorMiriam Aouragh(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0345.14
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0345/chapters/10.11647/obp.0345.14
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightMiriyam Aouragh
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-06-26
Long abstractIn the years since the second intifada (2000-2005) we have seen digital technologies become a key tool for solidarity groups across the world. Mainstream media have come to function as gatekeepers by determining what stories are aired or properly contextualized. Thus, the internet has influenced Palestinian politics by disseminating textual, visual, and audio narratives beyond the confines of censorship of commercial media and political elites. More than a decade later, the Internet has by now grown into a counter-public space for Palestinian liberation politics. The relationship between technology and politics is multivalent and in contrast to a technologically deterministic view, reality is messy. Political change ultimately must emerge from human decisions and practices, themselves based on historical conditions. This implies great contradictions and therefore requires a nuanced approach. The Israeli state and its international supporters deploy the same technologies for instance. In fact, they have a far greater advantage than Palestinians. There are two sides to this, simply put the material and the immaterial. The immaterial is found for instance in the effort to mobilize pro-Israel sentiments. I have discussed this Israeli public diplomacy through social media as a form of Hasbara 2.0 . The material side has to do with the warfare and surveillance, the destruction and violence so to say, this is what I frame as Cybercide.
Page rangepp. 211–220
Print length10 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Media1 illustration
Contributors

Miriam Aouragh

(author)
Reader at the Communication and Media Research Institute at University of Westminster
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9675-053X
https://camri.ac.uk/blog/staff/dr-miriyam-aouragh/

Miriyam Aouragh, who gave the thirteenth Hurndall Memorial Lecture in 2018, is a Dutch-Moroccan anthropologist. She is a Reader at the Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster. She is the author of the book Palestine Online (2012) and the forthcoming Mediating the Makhzan as well as the author of a number of scholarly publications [https://camri.ac.uk/blog/staff/dr-miriyam-aouragh/]. She often engages as a public intellectual in activist movements and debates concerning racism, imperialism and capitalism. Her research and writings focus on anti-racism, cyber warfare, grassroots digital politics and (counter-) revolutions. Aouragh’s intellectual approach and political investment is inspired by the notion that “each one’s liberation is bound up with the other”.