By 7amleh | Project Leader
We’re excited to share an update on what 7amleh has been working on over the past few months!
Latest from 7amleh: This Week's New Report
This week, 7amleh released a new report titled “Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content During Genocide in Gaza.” The report exposes the failure of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to protect Palestinians from incitement and hate speech in Hebrew. It reveals the company’s biased policies and complicity in enabling such discourse during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, while disregarding the provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice on January 26, 2024, which explicitly called for the prevention and punishment of “direct and public incitement to commit genocide.”
The report highlights that Meta, the world’s largest social media company with 3.35 billion daily active users, plays a crucial role in the Palestinian digital ecosystem. However, despite this centrality, the company failed to meet its responsibilities by allowing inciting and dehumanizing Hebrew content to proliferate--including posts from Israeli politicians and government officials- while simultaneously imposing heightened restrictions on Palestinian content through removals, account suspensions, and systematic algorithmic penalties.
Over the Past Few Months
Last month, we launched our Friends of 7amleh Network as part of our efforts to grow and diversify our U.S. supporter base. This network invites people to contribute monthly and, in return, gain greater access to 7amleh’s updates, events, and briefings. If you made a one-time donation this past year, please consider making a recurring contribution of $10/month and you will gain access to our Friends of 7amleh network.
Our 2024 Annual Report, released in July, details how many people we reached thanks to donations like yours. In 2024, we supported 8,019 people through training, events, advocacy, and aiding in escalations of account violation cases, assisted in 967 digital rights cases, engaged 51 international partners, and were mentioned by the media 173 times (such as The Guardian, CBC, Al Jazeera, and The Intercept) and reached 1.6 million on social media.
Between May and August 2025, we released 3 important publications:
“The War on Gaza: How Social Media Constructed Narratives and Solidarity among Gazans”
This position paper aims to examine how the war on Gaza has altered the utilization of social media platforms among Gazans, and why this shift has introduced further meaningful and functional layers. It does not provide a purely technical or psychological analysis but rather seeks to understand how Palestinians construct their digital narrative during wartime, and how their language, priorities, and selfrepresentation evolve in a constrained and vulnerable digital context.
Position Paper: Safeguarding Palestinian Digital Rights in the EU Policy Framework
The paper highlights how current EU policies fall short in protecting Palestinians online, often enabling censorship and discriminatory moderation in times of conflict, and calls on the EU to: 1) Require platforms to transparently report state-issued content moderation requests; 2) Ensure platforms follow EU standards on freedom of expression and privacy when responding to takedown demands; 3) Strengthen oversight to prevent politically motivated censorship; 4) Implement Article 40 of the DSA and grant access to data on moderation in war zones.
The study focuses on gender-based digital violence targeting Palestinian women amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza, where such violence is used as a tool of repression and control, undermining women’s presence and rights to expression and participation. It highlights the intersection of colonial, digital, and patriarchal violence, in a context marked by fragile protections and persistent violations that extend beyond the battlefield to target women’s bodies and voices online.
We also produced two Arabic-language digital safety guides and supported a range of advocacy initiatives, including a joint campaign with several civil society organizations urging GoFundMe to end its blocking of life-saving fundraising efforts for Gaza.
Looking Ahead:
We have several exciting reports in the pipeline and important speaking engagements ahead that will help us continue advancing our mission. With your continued support, 7amleh will keep advocating, documenting, and empowering communities in the face of growing challenges. Together, we can help build a safer and more equitable digital future for Palestinians.
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