Microsoft’s Role in Gaza Goes Way Beyond the ICC Email Lockout

The tech giant didn’t just lock an ICC prosecutor out of his email. It’s been building tools for Israel’s wars while silencing dissent at home.

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
Israeli soldier tests Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset for battlefield use

Last week, headlines lit up with a staggering development: Microsoft locked the world’s top war crimes prosecutor out of his email. Karim Khan, chief of the International Criminal Court (ICC), had dared to go after Israeli officials for war crimes and was instantly digitally silenced. His accounts were frozen. His name smeared. His power

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Israeli Occupation: How Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Dell Enable Surveillance and Control in Palestine

Multinational tech giants Microsoft, IBM, Cisco Systems, and Dell Technologies are complicit in Israel’s human rights violations, enabling surveillance, data collection, and control over Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
Big Tech Israel Feature photo

In September, Israel installed an AI-powered gun at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Now, that same technology has been deployed at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. Across occupied East Jerusalem, you can find surveillance cameras strategically placed on street corners. And throughout the West Bank,

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Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft

Studying employment databases, MintPress has ascertained that hundreds of agents from Israeli military intelligence and spying organization Unit 8200 are now employed in influential roles in many of the world’s largest tech and communications companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. 

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Amazon Feauture photo

A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the notorious Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have attained positions of influence in many of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous

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With Microsoft Purchase of TikTok, US Tightens Grip Over International Media

Even as the government attempts to frame the debate over the banning of Chinese companies like TikTok and Huawei over privacy concerns, it continues to try to ban the encryption of data and communications at home.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Microsoft Bill Gates

Following Donald Trump’s Friday announcement that he would ban the popular Chinese-owned video platform, Microsoft has today swooped in to hoover up TikTok after it received “personal assurances” from the president himself that he would back such a move. Trump has given the two parties up to 45 days to hash out a deal. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent

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Microsoft Should Stop Funding Israeli Spying on Palestinians

Through its venture capital arm M12, Microsoft has reportedly invested $78 million in the Israeli startup company that “uses facial recognition to surveil Palestinians throughout the West Bank

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Microsoft Israel Feature photo

The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias - traditional Palestinian scarves that grew to symbolize Palestinian resistance - is far from being a fashion statement. Instead, it is a survival technique, without it,

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How Neocon Billionaire Paul Singer Is Driving the Outsourcing of US Tech Jobs to Israel

Several U.S. tech giants including Google, Microsoft and Intel Corporation have filled top positions with former members of Israeli military intelligence and are heavily investing in their Israeli branches while laying off thousands of American employees, all while receiving millions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies funded by American taxpayers.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Paul Singer | Bayer

WASHINGTON -- With nearly 6 million Americans unemployed and regular bouts of layoffs in the U.S. tech industry, major American tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Intel Corporation are nonetheless moving key operations, billions in investments, and thousands of jobs to Israel -- a trend that has largely escaped media attention or concern

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