Global Call 'Silence For Gaza': Digital Protest In Support Of Palestinians Begins Today (Photo on Facebook Saifu Koolath)
A global digital protest has emerged against the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza. The campaign requests people across the world to abstain from using social media for a week – from 21:00 to 21:30 local time.
Several high-profile figures and organisations have become part of the digital silence for Gaza, appealing to people to cooperate with the worldwide campaign, marking protest against the sufferings of Palestinians in Gaza. The digital protest is expected to send a powerful signal to the social media algorithms, manifesting mass solidarity with the Palestinians. Political leaders, film personalities, activists, authors and other prominent individuals have come out in support of the campaign.
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In a statement, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) endorsed the ‘Silence for Gaza’ initiative, urging people to switch off their mobile phones for half an hour every day in the following week at the mentioned time. It said that the party stands with the Palestinian people and against the “brutal, genocidal assault unleashed by Israel” by joining the global ‘Silence for Gaza’ campaign. The party then urged people across the country to actively participate in this digital resistance.
The left party pointed out that a recently released UN report, From the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide, showed how various multinational corporations are complicit in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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‘The sinister role of these corporations must be exposed, and they must be held accountable to the people,’ the statement noted, adding that these corporations also feed off people’s digital footprints, even as they enable genocide.
“Shutting off our mobile phones for half an hour each day at the designated time is a small but powerful act of digital disruption, a strike against the surveillance capitalism that bankrolls Israel’s genocide and apartheid,” the party said.
“Let this collective silence be a defiant refusal to be complicit, and a powerful assertion that the voices against war crimes will not be silenced,” the statement added.
