{"product_id":"terms-of-servitude-isbn-9781644214800","title":"Terms of Servitude","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis groundbreaking book documents how digital platforms and technology companies based in the United States support the Israeli settler-colonial project through censorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerms of Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how social media has become a new tool of anti-Palestinian suppression even though these platforms were initially instrumental in advancing the Palestinian struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures an introduction by Steven Salaita, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eTerms of Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press.]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerms of Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e explores the paradox whereby prominent digital platforms like Meta, Google, and X that initially facilitated the expression of activism and advocacy for Palestinian liberation have come to fortify Zionist settler-colonialism. Through anti-Palestinian censorship and erasure often justified by so-called “terms of service” or “community standards” violations, these Big Tech companies provide the Israeli occupation forces with AI technology and metadata used to streamline genocidal colonial violence against Palestinians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough original analysis and careful documentation, Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies at San Francisco State University, traces the timeline from the Sheikh Jarrah uprisings of 2021 to the beginning of October 2023 to the most current developments to explain social media’s role in advancing and suppressing Palestinian narratives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis revealing and alarming book explores what makes anti-colonial counter-narratives across digital platforms so urgent, and what resistance can and must mean in light of the consolidation of Big Tech with Israeli colonialism and genocide.\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Note On Process\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword \u003c\/i\u003eby Steven Salaita\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUNDERSTANDING DIGITAL\/SETTLER-COLONIALISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePreface: Locating Palestine\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRejecting the Language of Silence\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFormative Years: My Introduction to Digital\/Settler-Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBreeding Trolls for the Start Up Colony: Cyber Warfare in the Age of Hasbara 2.0\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMeta’s Community Standards as a Tool of Digital\/Settler-Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKidnapped Posters Serve Genocidal Sentiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX Marks the Spot: Digital\/Settler-Colonialism and Musk’s Meeting with Netanyahu\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePARADIGMS OF SUPRESSION, NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eE-Racing Palestine\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNarrative Shifts and Digital Muzzling: Anti-Colonial Resistance And the Internet Post-Oslo\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“We Battled the Algorithm and Won”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDigital\/Settler-Colonialism Goes Global: Zionism and Colonial Humanity in International Culture\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFIGHTING BACK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTech Giants Censor Palestinian Content\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTikTok Ban Sign of US Imperial Anxiety\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCampaign against Project Nimbus gathers steam and supportersWhy Big Tech’s Control of Social Media cannot stop Anti-Colonial Resistance\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“It’s Never Been about Community Standards:” Samidoun Faces Repression on Social Media\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Virtual Palestine​\"\u003ci\u003eTerms of Servitude \u003c\/i\u003eis a blistering, timely testament to the unyielding power of Palestinian resistance in the age of digital empire. With eloquence and rigor, Omar Zahzah exposes how Silicon Valley’s so-called “neutral” technologies collude in Israel’s settler-colonial violence, demonstrating that censorship, algorithmic bias, and surveillance are not glitches but blueprints for silencing Indigenous struggles. Written in the midst of ongoing genocide yet unwavering in its vision, the book slices through corporate euphemisms to reveal how Big Tech encodes the brutality of occupation into pixels and code. It insists on situating Palestine at the center of any decolonial project seeking to reclaim the digital commons.\" \u003cb\u003e—Laila Shereen Sakr, author of \u003ci\u003eArabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"From social media censorship to the pernicious surveillance of Palestinians and their supporters, Omar Zahzah chronicles the intimate involvement of American Big Tech corporations in Israel’s unrelenting settler-colonial project. \u003ci\u003eTerms of Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e provides a guide to understanding and resisting digital settler colonialism. It is a timely and urgent read for everyone concerned with the fate of Palestine.\"\u003cb\u003e—Michael Kwet, author of \u003ci\u003eDigital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ​\"A bold and utterly captivating exposé, \u003ci\u003eTerms of Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e delivers the most powerful indictment yet of Silicon Valley's pervasive use of surveillance, egregious censorship, and other digital tools not only to facilitate Israeli violence but to aggressively stifle Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices that dare to expose it. Omar Zahzah's brilliant, meticulously-researched, and irrefutable arguments unequivocally demonstrate that digital technology is being actively weaponized to fuel settler colonialism in Palestine. This book is absolutely critical, not merely for a profound understanding of the sinister alliance between Big Tech and the Israeli occupation, but as a chilling, prescient warning of how such technology can fundamentally deepen oppression against marginalized communities worldwide.\"\u003cb\u003e—Ramzy Baroud, author of \u003ci\u003eThese Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Zahzah reveals—in damning clarity—the paradoxical use of technology to both suppress and amplify the Palestinian liberation struggle, offering us a meticulous yet accessible articulation of the digital resistance to Zionism and why, ultimately, Big Tech is failing to silence it. \u003ci\u003eTerms of Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful and essential record of this pivotal moment in history.” \u003cb\u003e—Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor ​of \u003ci\u003eThe Electronic Intifada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOMAR ZAHZAH\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, poet, organizer of Lebanese Palestinian descent, and Assistant Professor of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies at San Francisco State University. Omar has covered digital repression in relation to Palestine as a freelance journalist since May 2021, with work appearing in such outlets as \u003ci\u003eAl Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, CounterPunch\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTEVEN SALAITA\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. His most recent books are a memoir, \u003ci\u003eAn Honest Living\u003c\/i\u003e, and a novel, \u003ci\u003eDaughter, Son, Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e. 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