About this episode

Francesca speaks with Omar Zahzah about the suppression of Palestinian voices on social media and its connections to Silicon Valley and Israel.

In this episode of Writer's Voice, Francesca speaks with Omar Zahzah, Palestinian-American scholar, activist, journalist, and author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. Zahzah offers the first book-length analysis of how major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok, systematically suppress Palestinian content, and how that suppression is structurally connected to the financial, ideological, and political ties between Silicon Valley and the Israeli state.

People in this episode

Host: Francesca Rheannon

Guest: Omar Zahzah

Topics covered

• Silicon Valley
• Palestinian Voices
• Digital Colonialism
• Social Media Suppression
• Zionism
• Activism
• Journalism

Keywords

• Palestinian
• Silicon Valley
• social media
• content suppression
• Zionism
• digital colonialism
• activism
• journalism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok

Books & works: Terms of Servitude

Places: Palestine, Israel

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