Silenced, Erased, and Disconnected: The Fight for Palestinian Digital Rights
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Online Event
10:10 AM New York | 3:10 PM ViennaThe OSUN Network Collaborative course on "Freedom of Expression" announces a series of online guest lectures that are available for the public to observe online.
The first lecture will be delivered on March 19 by Jalal Abukhater, a Palestinian rights advocate based in Jerusalem. Abukhater is the Advocacy Manager at 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, a digital rights organization that fights for a free, fair, and safe digital space for all Palestinians.
The lecture will focus on the suppression of Palestinian voices online within contexts of targeting of journalists, access to information, issues of connectivity in Palestine, and current advocacy campaigns calling to restore and rebuild Gaza’s telecom sector. Abukhater would discuss how some tech company CEOs are aligning themselves with authoritarian political players, how they may be complicit in human rights violations and facilitating behaviors that fuel real-world harm—while failing to uphold legal obligations and other human rights frameworks. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
Viewers can address questions to Abukhater in advance by sending an email to Kseniya Shtalenkova at [email protected]
Please indicate "Lecture with Jalal Abukhater" as the email subject.
Location: Online Event