@aral I feel like you should read this reply back and assess what intelligence you’re granting to them, though? People in Gaza have had to deal with extreme Israeli surveillance online their whole lives; it’s not a foreign concept. That’s all I mean. I’m not saying not to advise people on how this specific app works, it’s just that maybe we should pause before advising on something out of our wheelhouse.

Two other things - H isn’t trawling through the likes of every social media post criticizing them, nor is it publicly executing people who weren’t literally murdering their neighbors. Regardless of our opinions as outsiders, journalist Saleh Ja’farawi was kidnapped, tortured, and shot seven times in an execution by Israeli agents armed, trained, and funded by the occupation. (Those agents died in two firefights with security forces, and the remaining were arrested.) That’s not the same as the common Ghazawi criticizing their government, which they do all the time. This equivocation, between dissent and actively carrying out a genocide, is a zionist talking point (“civil war”) that has been criticized extensively the past several days by Palestinians from all sorts of different political backgrounds, partly because it has emerged as a curious piece of hasbara at the same time as certain international powers express interest in occupying Gaza with their own “security forces.”

This is where our discretion is vital…

@shantini @aral Point being sometimes it’s also helpful for *us* to sit w/ why we react to 💩 we see on the Internet (a lesson I’ve learned /also as a person we call white in this millennium). Aral is Middle Eastern, lives in an increasingly anti immigrant country, and is speaking from that experience-please don’t jump down throats.

All this to say, I feel you and have felt this in the past. But we can also trust his Palestinian friends to hold him to account 2/2