Summary
Dutch-Moroccan anthropologist at the University of Westminster and author of Chapter 13 of For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, “Resisting Cybercide, Strengthening Solidarity”, which frames Israel’s destruction of Palestinian Internet infrastructure and communications as Cybercide within Hasbara, and reproduces her 2004 message to Tom Hurndall’s family and friends (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.233-241).
Details
- Aouragh gave the thirteenth Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture in March 2018 (PDF p.9); her Contributors entry describes research on anti-racism, cyber warfare and grassroots digital politics, and the book Palestine Online (2012) (PDF p.15).
- Her chapter argues Palestinian online politics mediates between settler colonialism and cyber-colonialism, and that Israeli Hasbara is a “Meticulous Strategy, Magnificent Failure”: Palestinian social-media impact outweighs Israel’s despite its greater resources (PDF p.235-238).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, Cybercide, Hasbara, Tom Hurndall, Rachel Corrie