The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Washington state chapter (CAIR-WA) today called on Microsoft to deny Israel the use of its servers to store data reportedly used to carry out its genocide in Gaza.
“Revealed here for the first time in an investigation by the Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the cloud-based system – which first became operational in 2022 – enables Unit 8200 to store a giant trove of calls daily for extended periods of time…
…Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza. One of the sources said that when planning an airstrike on an individual located within densely populated areas where high numbers of civilians are present, officers would use the cloud-based system to examine calls made by people in the immediate vicinity.
“The sources alsosaid use of the system had increased during the campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than 60,000 people in the territory, the majority of whom are civilians, including over 18,000 children.”
“With each passing day, the revelations emanating from just how deeply entrenched tech-giants are in the ongoing genocide are truly shocking” said CAIR-WA Executive Director Imraan Siddiqi. “Add this to the fact that we have seen current Microsoft employees of conscience stand up against this complicity and summarily fired for doing so. With the latest wave of world outcry about the hunger crisis in Gaza, we call on Microsoft and all tech giants to take a stand and stop supporting Israel’s impunity once and for all.”
In a statement, CAIR’s national office said:
“Microsoft must not allow itself and its stockholders to be complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Reportedly allowing the Israeli military to use its servers to facilitate surveillance and targeting of civilians in Gaza is morally indefensible. We call on Microsoft to immediately halt any services that support the slaughter of Palestinian civilians and to uphold its responsibility to promote human rights.”
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