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Palestinians call for increased pressure on the tech companies powering Israel’s occupation and Gaza genocide that also enable ICE violence in the US.

Tech companies and weapons manufacturers have long colluded with Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid and military occupation, using Palestine as a testing ground for militarized and surveillance technologies. Now, these militarized technologies are being exported globally– including to the United States to enable Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence in the heart of empire.

No AI for War Crimes

End UN Partnership with Genocide-Enabling Tech in “AI for Good” Conference and Regulate AI and Cloud as Dual-Use Technology

Palestinian civil society and solidarity organizations worldwide strongly condemn the United Nations International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) shameful partnership in its so-called “AI for Good” summit with tech companies, particularly Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Cisco, Oracle, and IBM, that, in providing cloud infrastructure and AI technologies to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, are deeply complicit in atrocity crimes (including apartheid and genocide).