Microsoft Azure hit by latency after Red Sea fiber breaks

 

Microsoft reported service slowdowns on its Azure cloud due to Red Sea cable cuts.

Microsoft said on Saturday that customers of its Azure cloud platform are experiencing slower connections after several subsea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were severed. The disruption has affected traffic between Asia and Europe that usually passes through the Middle East, the company explained.

"Undersea fiber cuts can take time to repair, as such we will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to reduce customer impact in the meantime. We'll continue to provide daily updates, or sooner if conditions change," Microsoft said in a service health notice.

The company has rerouted data through alternative paths to keep services online, though the detours are producing higher-than-usual latency. Azure is the world's second-largest cloud provider, behind Amazon Web Services.

Internet monitors reported that the outages have disrupted major cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, including the SMW4 and IMEWE lines, which carry a significant share of global connectivity between Europe and Asia. Experts warn that restoring undersea cables can take weeks, requiring specialized vessels and permissions to operate in Red Sea waters.  (more...)

Microsoft Azure hit by latency after Red Sea fiber breaks

Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

 

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

On March 2, 2025, hours after the Israeli government announced the blockade of all food, medicine, fuel, and other humanitarian supplies from entering Gaza, lawmakers in Jerusalem demanded answers—not on the devastating human toll of such a decision, but on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office was preparing to handle the public relations fallout.

“I began with the example of the cessation of humanitarian aid—did you prepare for this thing this morning?” asked Knesset member Moshe Tur-Paz, the chair of a subcommittee on Foreign Affairs in Israel’s parliament.

Avichai Edrei, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces who was asked the same question later in the hearing, assured the legislators work was underway, stating, “We could also decide to launch a digital campaign in this context, to explain that there is no hunger and present the data.”

Publicly available government contracts show that Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has since embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes the use of American influencers widely reported on last month. It also includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for Google, YouTube, X, Meta, and other tech platforms.

“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by Israel’s foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video sharing platform in late August and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45 million (NIS 150 million) advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in late June. The contract—which is with both YouTube and Google's advertising campaign management platform, Display & Video 360—explicitly characterizes the ad campaign as hasbara, a Hebrew word whose meaning is somewhere between public relations and propaganda.   (more...)

Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

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Google Involved in $45M ‘Hasbara’ Campaign Deal with Israel – Report

Canadian Zionist "Charity" Targets Journalists

 

A Canadian organization which operates as a mendacious media monitoring mouthpiece for Israel, has charitable tax status in Canada. Honest Reporting Canada (HRC) targets Canadian journalists and media outlets that do not tow the Israeli narrative. Now, a professor of Occupational Therapy and Public Health at the University of Regina, has filed an official complaint with the Canada Revenue Agency about the group's charitable tax status. Sean Tucker argues that the work of HRC violates the Canada Revenue Agency's laws.

Israeli Sex Criminals Flout American Justice

 

When I saw her name was Sigal, I knew she was trouble.

I’m referring to Sigal Chattah, Acting US Attorney for the state of Nevada. It was on her watch that Tom Alexandrovich, arrested August 6 for soliciting sex with a 15-year-old, was allowed to flee to Israel two days later.

Alexandrovich is not just any Israeli. He is head of the Technological Defense Division at the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD).

Apparently Alexandrovich’s job description includes censoring Americans who are critical of Israel. In a viral X post by Shaun King, Alexandrovich is seen on Israeli television bragging about submitting 40,000 social media takedown requests on behalf of Israel with a 90% success rate. In the clip, Alexandrovich says he and the INCD censor social media users worldwide who post things that might “lead to demoralization” of Israeli genocide perpetrators.

Ironically, Alexandrovich, or someone like him, nearly censored Shaun King! When King posted the Israeli TV clip in which Alexandrovich brags about censoring critics of Israel, X immediately took down the post. Undaunted, King re-posted the clip. Again, it was quickly nuked. All day long King kept trying to post the clip. After more than 17 unsuccessful attempts, King’s post finally stayed up and went viral.

Why are Israeli sex criminals allowed to flee the US with impunity so they can return to their jobs in Israel censoring American social media users? In Alexandrovich’s case, the fact that the Acting US Attorney for Nevada, Sigal Chattah, is herself Israeli, probably has something to do with it.  (more...)

Israeli Sex Criminals Flout American Justice

Zencity: Israel’s Spy Agency is Exporting Occupation Tech to America

 

Five years on from George Floyd’s death, Minneapolis residents are pushing back against the city’s contract with Zencity, a tech company founded and headed by veterans of the Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200.

ZenCity has signed a three-year contract with the city of Minneapolis, enabling it to gather information about residents’ attitudes towards the police.

But this contract is only one of many. In fact, Zencity’s services are employed by dozens of municipalities across the United States to surveil ordinary Americans and target protestors.

ZenCity uses AI to collect millions of data points from your emails and posts on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Nextdoor. From these, it gauges security threats and advises local governments on how to act accordingly.

In Kent County, MI, ZenCity analyzed residents’ online footprints and used them to determine what level of security the local government needed to meet the protest movement.

In other words, they were there to insulate the government from the voice of the people and limit our ability to effect change.  (more...)

Zencity: Israel’s Spy Agency is Exporting Occupation Tech to America

Genocidal 'Influencer' Dahlia Kurtz Sues Roger Waters And Yves Engler For Defamation

 

Genocidal 'influencer' Dahlia Kurtz has filed a defamation lawsuit against Roger Waters and Yves Engler in the Quebec Superior Court.

In Kurtz's legal action, Kurtz is represented by unhinged Zionist lawyer Neil Oberman.

Dimitri Lascaris examines the relevant evidence and argues that Kurtz's lawsuit is devoid of merit. 

Lascaris also explains why he believes that Kurtz should be charged criminally for the willful promotion of hate, and why Oberman is unfit to practice law.

Activism you can feel: How pro-Palestine youth are responding to online censorship

 

Faced with digital fatigue and heightened surveillance, Gen Z and millennial organisers are turning to zines, posters, stickers and embroidery to express solidarity with Palestine

When Israel initiated plans to evict Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem to make way for illegal settlers, millions of young people around the world got involved in a high-profile social media campaign to raise awareness. 

Using the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah, more than 40 million people joined in, forming part of a wave of online organising that set the stage for a new era of pro-Palestine digital activism.

That trend continued as Israel launched its ongoing genocide in Gaza in October 2023 with activists dedicating their Instagram feeds and TikTok reels to spreading awareness of Israeli atrocities.

But mounting censorship on social media, digital fatigue and a hunger for deeper forms of engagement, are forcing organisers to shift gears and adopt new modes of activism.

Many Gen Z and millennial activists are going analog, turning to tangible and material means of information sharing.

This buregoning shift allows them to overcome surveillance on social media platforms and lets them share their message directly with people in the "real world" in ways that feel more personal and engaging.  (more...)

Activism you can feel: How pro-Palestine youth are responding to online censorship

Bibi Attacks the Algorithm

 

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Israeli Sexual Predator Charged In Las Vegas Is Allowed To Flee The United States

 

In early August, a senior official of Israel's national security apparatus was charged in Nevada for attempting to have sex with an undercover police officer who posed as a 15-year old girl.

Although the offender, Tom Alexandrovich, was an obvious flight risk, authorities made no apparent attempt to prevent him from leaving the United States and returning to Israel.

It then emerged that the acting U.S. attorney for Nevada, Sigal Chatta, is an dual citizen of Israel and the United States and recently published openly genocidal rhetoric about Palestinians in Gaza.

On Reason2Resist's latest livestream, Rami Yahia and Dimitri Lascaris explore the circumstances that led to Alexandrovich's flight from justice.

They also discussed Donald Trump's meeting on Monday of this week with Volodymyr Zelensky and his main European backers.

Gooning for Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide

Amid an ongoing assault on its neighbors, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is attempting to improve its image by posting highly sexually suggestive content featuring its soldiers, changing the prevailing emotion of onlookers from outrage to lust.

A wide range of IDF thirst trap accounts—many with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of followers—proliferate on social media. These accounts are quietly sanctioned by the Israeli government, in an attempt, in its own words, to “appeal” to a young male demographic.

MintPress News explores the phenomenon of Israel using sex to whitewash its actions.

Since the October 7, 2023, attacks, virtually every user on social media has been exposed to images of Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure. But a large subsection of the internet—particularly young males—also see another side of the Israeli military. A myriad of IDF thirst trap accounts also pepper the internet. Pages like “IDF Babes,” “Hot IDF Girls,” and “Girls Defense,”—each with hundreds of thousands of followers across different platforms—post content sexualizing and lionizing female Israeli soldiers in equal measures.

The images and videos often come with explicit political messages. This weekend, for example, IDF babes posted a picture of an IDF soldier in nothing but a bikini, with the caption, “Corporal Dina stumbled across a Syrian T-34/85 tank in our Golan Heights,” thereby explicitly claiming the Golan Heights—Syrian territory illegally occupied since 1968—as Israeli.

Another common template for posting is the “on/off” format, featuring two pictures of the same woman, side by side: one in a combat uniform and another wearing little or nothing.  (more...)

Gooning for Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide

Canadian Paramedic Fired for Criticising Israel

 

Advanced care paramedic, Katherine Grzejszczak, was getting ready to return back to work, when she was informed by York Region paramedics that she was being fired. The reason for her dismissal was a post on her social media that criticised Israel's killing of paramedics and starving of Gaza's population. Katherine is also an Executive Member of CUPE, Ontario's largest union. She is currently fighting to get back to work and is challenging her dismissal. What is just as disturbing however, is the involvement of Canadian lawmakers in her firing.

Attacking Francesca Albanese

 

In today's show, we'll be examining the concerted effort being made to silence Francesca Albanese.

She's the UN's special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, who has been investigating the abuses being perpetrated by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people.

In our first report, Latifa Abouchakra highlights the role being played by Donald Trump's administration to gag Ms Albanese. Our next report exposes the lengths to which the Zionist regime is going to smear Francesca Albanese.

The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy

 

GoFundMe donations, social media posts, and board memberships reveal how a handful of faculty members are backing Zionist doxxing outfits.

In March 2024, Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (DJHC) emerged on Instagram and X as another node in a network of organizations decrying pro-Palestine faculty and students at Columbia University. The group slowly grew to focus on what it called other “participating schools”—such as CUNY, which it called a “hotbed of antisemitism.” Like its fellow Zionist doxxing outfits Betar and Canary Mission, its preferred solution was student deportation. On Election Day, DJHC posted a clip of Trump promising to deport “jihad-sympathizers and America-hating radicals,” and wrote “We have the receipts!” It announced on social media that it had names of students, once tagging Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Throughout November and into December, the DJHC account continued celebrating the prospect of student deportations. And on December 5, a couple months before such deportations began in earnest, Jeffrey Lax—chair of the business department at Kingsborough College at the City University of New York (CUNY)—joined the advisory board of DJHC. S.A.F.E. Campus, an organization that Lax had founded in 2023, was already serving as DJHC’s fiscal sponsor, which allowed the newer group to receive tax-exempt donations.

Lax is one of a small but active cohort of professors on American campuses vocally supporting groups pushing student deportations, even as the detention of students on visas and green cards has stoked anxieties in many university communities. A longtime pro-Israel activist at CUNY and a frequent contributor to right-wing media, Lax has initiated repeated lawsuits against colleagues, his union, and the university for alleged discrimination from pro-Palestine members of the campus community. Now, Lax appears to be reprising this role in groups like DJHC, continuing to champion the administration’s targeting of noncitizen student activists.

Last week, when CUNY’s Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez was interrogated by House Republicans over alleged antisemitism at the university system, lawmakers referenced many of the same incidents Lax’s groups had focused on over the last year. Lax himself was in attendance. “ I am so proud to have been involved in the process that led to this day,” he wrote on X.  (more..)

The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy

Two Charges Against Pro-Palestine Activist Yves Engler Dropped

 

“It’s a victory for those of us who oppose Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”

The Crown has dropped two charges against Montreal-based pro-Palestine author and activist Yves Engler, who had been accused of engaging in harassment and indecent communication against a pro-Israel social media personality.

Four more charges alleging Engler harassed a Montreal police investigator assigned to the case still stand, and a trial is scheduled for November 28.

Engler, who spent five days in jail earlier this year as a result of the charges, told The Maple he is confident the Crown will drop the remaining charges as well.

“It’s a victory for those of us who oppose Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” said Engler, who is currently mounting a leadership campaign for the federal NDP.

The charges stemmed from Engler’s frequent interactions with pro-Israel social media influencer Dahlia Kurtz.

Kurtz regularly posts about Israel and Palestine on X. For example, on February 11, commenting on a video captioned “children of Gaza celebrate after ceasefire,” Kurtz wrote: “Super energetic starving children in Gaza, dancing in their cozy, clean and warm sweaters, whilst clearly freezing to death. The adults choreographing the celebration are their genocided obese parents.” 

She has also accused pro-Palestine demonstrators of “calling for another Holocaust” and appeared to endorse a sign calling for “mass deportations now.”  (more...)

Two Charges Against Pro-Palestine Activist Yves Engler Dropped

Canary Mission to Concentration Camps: ICE and Its Bond With Israeli Intelligence

 

 In today’s episode, we look at ICE’s “Tiger Team” and its troubling collaboration with the Canary Mission and Israeli spyware companies to surveil U.S. student protesters.

👁️‍🗨️ What you’ll learn in this episode:

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) formed a secret “Tiger Team” in early 2025 to investigate over 5,000 student activists, many of whom appeared on the controversial Canary Mission website.
• ICE’s use of Paragon Solutions, an Israeli spyware company founded by ex-Unit 8200 intelligence officers, to monitor encrypted apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Gmail.
• The ADL’s long-standing connections to ICE and U.S. law enforcement’s training in Israel.
• How Zencity, another Israeli surveillance tech firm, is being used by cities across the U.S. to monitor public sentiment and protests.
• Why surveillance tactics used against Palestinians abroad are now being deployed on U.S. soil.

Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans

 

While it continues its conflict with its neighbors, Israel is fighting another war just as intensely, spending gigantic amounts of money bombarding Europe with messaging justifying their actions, and scaremongering Europeans that Iranian nuclear missiles will soon be turning their cities into rubble.

A MintPress study has found that, since it struck Iran on June 13, the Israeli Government Advertising Agency has paid for tens of millions of advertisements on YouTube alone. In clear breach of Google’s policies, these ads justify and lionize the attack as a necessary defense of Western civilization, and claim that Israel is carrying out “one of the largest humanitarian missions in the world” in Gaza.

The countries most targeted by this campaign include the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Greece.

“A fanatical regime firing missiles at civilians, while racing towards nuclear weapons. While Iran deliberately targets cities, Israel acts with precision to dismantle this threat.” Thus starts one Israeli government ad that hundreds of thousands of YouTube viewers in Europe have been compelled to watch.

“Terror architects behind the elimination of Israel plan: eliminated. Israel targets only military and terror sites, not civilians. But the threat remains,” the voiceover continues, over ominous music and high-tech graphics. “We will finish the mission for our people, for humanity. Israel does what must be done,” it concludes.

“Iran’s ballistic missile program isn’t just a threat to Israel, it is a threat to Europe and the Western world,” another, seen by 1.5 million viewers in just three weeks, claims. “Iran is developing missiles with ranges of approximately 4000 km. That places Europe within the regime’s striking distance,” it adds, as graphics show virtually the entire continent turning blood red, signifying a nuclear attack. “This isn’t tomorrow’s threat. It is today’s reality. The threat posed by the Iranian regime must be stopped. Israel does what must be done.”  (more...)

Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans

ICE official: We used Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation

 

A senior ICE official says the Trump administration used the shadowy, anti-Palestine website Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation

According to unsealed court documents, the Trump administration relied on an anti-Palestinian doxxing site to identify student protesters to target.

The testimony came from Peter Hatch, a senior official with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations during a Boston court case challenging Trump’s deportation policy.

According to Hatch, the Department of Homeland Security developed a “tiger team” of intelligence analysts to compile files on about 100 foreign students and scholars. Information on almost all of those students was listed on the pro-Israel doxxing website Canary Mission, which has targeted student activists for years.

Hatch says the team was necessary because they were instructed to review files on the thousands of students that have been assembled by Canary Mission.

“A normal unit or section or group of analysts operating in a normal organizational construct couldn’t handle that workload,” explained Hatch.

“Many of the names or even most of the names came from that website, but we were getting names and leads from many different websites,” he continued. “We received information on the same protesters from multiple sources, but Canary Mission was the most inclusive. The lists came in from all different directions.”

In March, the New York Times published an article on the “shadowy group”, after Canary Mission unveiled a list of “foreign nationals” in response to the Trump administration’s executive order on combating antisemitism.  (more...)

ICE official: We used Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation

David Miller in court over social media posts criticizing Zionism

 

David Miller, a former sociology professor at the University of Bristol, is facing legal proceedings after complaints from an Israeli lobbying group about his social media posts.

A long time critic of Zionism as a racist ideology, he says this is yet another witch hunt.

Miller was sacked from his job at the University of Bristol nearly four years ago over claims his lectures on Islamophobia created a hostile environment for Jewish students.

His supporters in the fight against Zionism, and he himself, argue his dismissal was driven by pressure from pro Israel lobby groups.

For now, the legal proceedings continue, and with them the debate over truth, power, and, the cost of standing up to Zionism.

The issues at stake stretch far beyond the legal chambers, they touch upon the global struggle over who can speak up against Zionism, what can be questioned, and whether anyone can challenge Israel's powerful political lobbies without fear of retribution.  (more...)

David Miller in court over social media posts criticizing Zionism

Zionism has led to racist fascism as left predicted long ago

 

Israel supporters have shown time and again their willingness to abrogate Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms to serve their favoured supremacist state. If you support Israel killing hundreds of caged starving people seeking food then it’s easy to push firing or jailing a Canadian critic.

Wednesday The J.ca published “Montreal Author Under Police Review After Anti-IDF Posts Raise Hate Speech Concerns. Yves Engler’s ‘Death to IDF’ remarks prompt law enforcement scrutiny and public criticism amid rising tensions.”

The article cites far right Jewish supremacist X account Leviathan seeking to have me arrested and suggests a journalist contacted the Montreal police to enquire about my posts. Two days ago Leviathan tagged multiple police accounts with photos of my statements supporting Find My IDF next to my response to those condemning British music duo Bob Vylan. Their bid to have me arrested noted, “We wonder what @EnglerYves is trying to tell us. Maybe @SPVM @rcmpgrcpolice can help us figure it out before someone does something stupid. @Nat_Div_RCMP @rcmpqc.”

After tagging four different police X accounts, Leviathan added a second post explaining their (impeccable) logic: “Let’s put it in a mathematic equation: ‘Here Is A Database to Find IDF Soldiers in Canada’ + ‘Death To The IDF’ = ?????” (When far more Twitter users liked and shared my “death death to the IDF” response to their post Leviathan grumbled, “your fraudulent engagement is so evidently clear as you post them to your groups to gain ratios & algorithm manipulation.”)  (more...)

Zionism has led to racist fascism as left predicted long ago

Blinken Ordered the Hit. Big Tech Carried It Out. African Stream is Dead.

 

On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, African Stream published its final video, a defiant farewell message. With that, the once-thriving pan-African media outlet confirmed it was shutting down for good. Not because it broke the law. Not because it spread disinformation or incited violence. But because it told the wrong story, one that challenged U.S. power in Africa and resonated too deeply with Black audiences around the world. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused it of being a Kremlin front, Big Tech didn’t hesitate, and within hours, the platform was erased from nearly every major social media site.

In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the call and announced an all-out war against the organization, claiming, without evidence, that it was a Russian front group. “Russian state-funded media outlet RT secretly runs the online platform, African Stream, across a wide range of social media platforms,” he said, adding:

According to the outlet’s website, ‘African Stream is’ – and I quote ‘a pan-African digital media organization based exclusively on social media platforms, focused on giving a voice to all Africans, both at home and abroad.’ In reality, the only voice it gives is to Kremlin propagandists.”

Within hours, big social media platforms jumped into action. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all deleted African Stream’s accounts, while Twitter demonetized the organization.

African Stream attempted to continue, but it finally ceased operations this week. MintPress News spoke with the company’s founder and CEO, Ahmed Kaballo, who told us that, with just one statement, Washington was able to destroy their entire operation, stating:

 We are shutting down because the business has become untenable. After we got attacked by Antony Blinken, we really tried to continue, but without a platform on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and being demonetized on X, it just meant the ability to generate income became damn near impossible.”  (more...)

Blinken Ordered the Hit. Big Tech Carried It Out. African Stream is Dead.

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