E224 - Silicon Valley and the Israeli Occupation w/ Omar Zahzah

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E224 - Silicon Valley and the Israeli Occupation w/ Omar ZahzahPub date: 2025-11-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubscribe now to skip the commercials and get all of our content. Derek is joined by Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor of Arab Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University, to talk about his book Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism. They discuss the Sheikh Jarrah uprising and the digital front of the Palestinian struggle, the difference between “digital apartheid” and “digital settler colonialism,” Meta’s censorship, the IDF Unit 8200–Silicon Valley pipeline, how AI and tech infrastructure are being weaponized, the legacy of Edward Said’s “Permission to Narrate,” and how Palestinians have used social media to change the narrative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.