At Tech for Palestine, we know there are thousands of projects supporting Israel and promoting anti-Palestinian propaganda (aka hasbara) in the west. We are on a mission to produce thousands of projects to advocate for the Palestinian people, and to support cultural, academic, and economic boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel until the Palestinian people are free.
Our ultimate goal is for every project we incubate, wherever the idea originated, to become a scaled up, high impact, self-sustaining, long-term initiative.
We need smart, talented, and dedicated leaders who can take the initiative to build something amazing. We have a database of thousands of volunteers who have a broad range of skills and an interest in working for the cause, and experienced mentors who can guide you along the way. If you have the time, talent, and motivation to lead a project but are struggling to come up with an idea, use this list for inspiration.
The New York Times, alongside other complicit news organizations, repeatedly manufacture consent for, normalize, and downplay the attrocities that Israel commits on Palestine, with tactics such as using the passive voice, or even the “past exonerative tense”.
To enable the boycott, it is useful for people to still be able to access NYT articles, such as using archiving services such as archive.ph. Can we make an app or site that leverages this to make boycotts of media much more effective?
Many incubators and other organizations have partnerships with tech companies that provide discounts to their startups. Similarly, many tech organizations have discounts for nonprofits (often requiring them to be registered charities).
Build a program that works with tech companies to get discounts for T4P projects as well as for Palestinian startups. This is a great opportunity to advocate to tech companies, and spread the message about the apartheid, occupation, settlement, and the violence against Palestine from Israel.
Paypal supports Israeli settlers but does not allow Palestinians to use its services. Investigate the potential to use built-in Paypal/venmo virality to spread the message about what Paypal is doing. Can advocates use built-in messaging to reach a potentially sympathic audience, and what messaging can work for this?
Many companies and NGOs unwittingly use tools created by Israel or pro-Israel companies, which damages their security and safety stands, as well as their user data. Make a tool which can analyze a website and make recommendations to remove Wix, Elementor, Stripe, Google Cloud, and many other tools with less dangerous alternatives. Similar to the app “builtwith”, and using data from The Wall extension, Boycat, or IsraeliTechAlternatives.
The Keffiyeh is a visible symbol of Palestinian liberation. Wearing it, especially in cities in the West, shows not just solidarity with Palestine, but solidarity with other people who support Palestinian liberation.