The Platformicide of Palestine 2021-2025
Contesting Governance Report Launch with 7amleh
On Monday 8 June, the Contesting Governance Platform, under its priority area The Palestine Lab, invites you to join the launch of the report The Platformicide of Palestine 2021–2025: A data-based analysis of Meta’s policy application, moderation enforcement, and communication.
The report is the result of a three-year research partnership between Dr Fabio Cristiano (Conflict Studies, Utrecht University) and 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, with research support from students of the MA Conflict Studies and Human Rights. Focusing on Meta’s platforms from 2021 to 2025, the report examines patterns of online censorship affecting Palestinians. It develops the concept of platformicide to describe the systematic erasure and restriction of Palestinian digital presence through exceptional platform policies and moderation infrastructures. As the first report of this length and scope dedicated to the topic, it offers an extensive, data-driven account of how platform governance has shaped Palestinian visibility beyond content moderation, with particular attention to the shifts since 7 October.
The launch will include contributions from Dr Fabio Cristiano; Nadim Nashif, Executive Director of 7amleh; Faten Elwan, journalist; Ahmad Qadi, Monitoring and Documentation Manager at 7amleh; and Lama Nazih, Advocacy Manager at 7amleh.
7amleh is a Palestinian digital rights organisation working to protect and promote Palestinian digital rights through research, advocacy, monitoring, and capacity-building.
The report launch will take place at Janskerkhof 2–3, room 0.19, from 16:00 to 17:45.
To attend the event remotely, please register on 7amleh’s event page: https://7amleh.org/post/invitation-launch-platformicide-of-palestine-en
The Palestine Lab is a space for critical reflection and scholarly conversation on Palestine facilitated by members of the core team of the Contesting Governance platform. It promotes engagement with Palestine through an understanding of its ongoing dispossession, displacement, and erasure as part of a settler-colonial project. Rooted in academic inquiry and critical scholarship, The Palestine Lab understands Palestine as a metaphorical and physical site of contestation and social justice. Thus, it is not a neutral space but one that supports initiatives grounded in justice-oriented academic perspectives that centre Palestinian experiences and resist depoliticised framings.
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- Janskerkhof 2–3, room 0.19
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Please register here.