A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

Reportedly, Microsoft has been banning and wiping the accounts of users who have leveraged Skype to contact relatives in Gaza. In some cases, email accounts over a decade old have been locked, destroying access to banking accounts, OneDrive storage, and beyond.

United States resident Salah Elsadi lost his account of over 15 years in the dragnet. “I’ve had this Hotmail for 15 years. They banned me for no reason, saying I have violated their terms — what terms? Tell me. I’ve filled out about 50 forms and called them many many times.” Eiad Hametto from Saudi Arabia echoed the report, “We are civilians with no political background who just wanted to check on our families. They’ve suspended my email account that I’ve had for nearly 20 years. It was connected to all my work. They killed my life online.”

Many of the users affected by the bans expressed that Microsoft may be falsely labelling them as Hamas

  • Snowflake@sh.itjust.works
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    Without America the Palestine people would have starved to death years ago. Their own Arabian brothers won’t even help them. America doesn’t need to institionalize islamaphobia when they do it themselves. You can look into any Islam media and you would find they actively burn u.s. flags on state media and call for our destruction. Nothing was needed to justify your made up war crimes in any of those countries because they all started the wars. Japan bombed pearl harbor. North Korea invaded South Korea. Vietnam Gulf of tonkin. Etc etc.

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      Lol fuck off with that hard angle, also the Gulf of Tonkin was a false flag.

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        The fun thing with Tonkin is it doesn’t even need to be a false flag, it can credibly be explained by a bad radar return. I don’t know which is is a worse basis to get 400,000 Americans Killed? (Including Agent Orange and Suicide numbers)

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        Haha that was funny. Mentioning the Gulf of Tonkin incident as justification for war and really meaning it

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      Without America, Palestine would be united and free by now. A single multicultural country from the river to the sea that can recognize and celebrate its diverse people and history. Instead though we have a genocidal European colony.

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      LO-fuckin-L at using Gulf of Tonkin, a well known false flag operation meant solely to draw the US into a protracted conflict we had no business being in. 🤡

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        I mean sure maybe the August 4th incident was overblown but the August 2nd 1964 incident did happen where our ship was attacked by Vietnam torpedo boats. Maybe you get attacked and don’t do shit at all about it who is the real clown there?

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          Ohhhh got it, only one false flag attack was committed by the US. That means the war in Vietnam was justified.

          To be clear regarding “false flag” operations for anyone unaware: this entails attacking our own military in order to provide spurious cassus belli to enter a conflict we had no valid reason to enter. In this case, a civil war on the other side of the planet, in a bay we should never have been in to begin with.

          How stupid does a person need to be to think that, not only was the war in Vietnam justified, but that the Gulf of Tonkin false flag incident is that justification?

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            Vietnam torpedo boats attacked our ship on August 2 1964. Deny that fact as much as you want. Our ship was in international waters when attacked. There were multiple justifications to get in that war I don’t really care to get into them. Tldr: We help our allies and protect democracy in the region.

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              We help our allies and protect democracy in the region.

              LMAO. Your military protects interests of the billionaires and their economy. It has fuck all to do about democracy.

              But keep guzzling whatever you already are, those braincells aren’t going to repeat propaganda by itself.

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                South Vietnam allied. Democracy in the region couldn’t fall because it creates a domino effect where democracy looks week.

                Wtf are you talking about billionaires. Our military protects the interests of all our allies especially European and Asian.

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                You use re-vanced lmfao. Fuck outta here brokie. Just a sad propagandized loser who despises their own country.

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                  Lol nothing says confidence like going through someone’s comment history to try to find things to hurt them… Good think I’m not ashamed of either of those things.

                  And just to clarify the latter: criticizing your own country because of the awful things it is doing ≠ hate. Usually it’s literally the opposite. If I despised my country, I wouldn’t be so distraught as I watch it being sold for parts for next to nothing.

                  🤡 👟👟

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              The 6 day Israel-Arab war. A casualty was encourred and Israel pleaded it was an accidental casualty of war. They made concessions.

              The gulf of tonkin. Not a casualty but a calculated attack.

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                Yep complete accident. Have you read any of the reports? The ship was broadcasting it’s nationality in every way possible. The only way it was a mistake was if the Israelis turned off all of their communications and fired with their eyes closed.

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                  Yes indeed I did. It’s completely false the ship was broadcasting nationality in every way possible. The ship wasn’t even suppose to be as close as it was because they were experiencing multiple communication failures. Nice bullshit comment though.

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                    The ship was in international waters and clearly not a warship. That orders to move away given in an abundance of caution didn’t arrive in time has no bearing on the situation. It should not have been attacked for that reason alone. Pilots were clearly able to identify the ship as there are several recorded exchanges in Israeli headquarters about it being an American ship before it was attacked and visual contact with pilots was their only contact with Israeli forces until they were attacked. So even the attacking pilots should have known. The only reason they would attack anyways is if they had direct orders to fire, with that knowledge. In fact in one of the recordings they bring up the American ship and are ordered to fire anyways.

                    Once there was an attempt at communication, the response was ignored and they were torpedoed anyways.

                    There’s no way to interpret this as anything other than a brazen and willing war crime to neutralize an American ship.

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      Without America the Palestine people would have starved to death years ago. Their own Arabian brothers won’t even help them.

      Iran won’t help Palestine, but also Iran is the shadowy hand behind Hamas.

      Egypt won’t help Palestine, but the CIA/MI5 need to coup the elected government every decade or three when it gets to Muslim Brotherhood-y.

      Lebanon won’t help Palestine, but Israel says there are tunnels into Gaza from Lebanon so they need to start bombing again.

      Turkyie won’t help Palestine, but the IDF had to murder Turkish aid workers in 2010 to prevent their aid flotilla from reaching the shore.

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        Iran won’t help Palestine, but also Iran is the shadowy hand behind Hamas.

        Your point being what? That they fund Hamas so they’re helping?

        Egypt won’t help Palestine, but the CIA/MI5 need to coup the elected government every decade or three when it gets to Muslim Brotherhood-y.

        Somehow Egypt helps them by having secret govt backed coups? Instead they could have just taken in refugees but why would they do that? They’ll just have a coup instead.

        Lebanon won’t help Palestine, but Israel says there are tunnels into Gaza from Lebanon so they need to start bombing again.

        So Lebanon helps the Palestine people by building tunnels where Hamas stored weapons and hostages?

        Turkyie

        I recall the Turkish police raiding those same charity offices accusing them of being linked to Islamic terrorists.

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          Your point being what? That they fund Hamas so they’re helping?

          Uh… Literally yes. Palestinian Islamist resistance is the only notable resistance movement in Palestine.

          Somehow Egypt helps them by having secret govt backed coups? Instead they could have just taken in refugees but why would they do that? They’ll just have a coup instead.

          My man the Egyptian government is an American puppet what are you talking about?

          So Lebanon helps the Palestine people by building tunnels where Hamas stored weapons and hostages?

          Literally yes. See above.

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        So Palestinians are Hamas?
        Why is Iran not helping Fatah?
        Their support of Hamas is on ideological grounds. Israel is holy waqf land that belongs to Muslims and should be cleansed from Jews.

        Even when Egypt had sovereignty over Gaza they made sure to prevent Palestinians from going to Egypt.

        Tunnels from Lebanon… to Gaza…? Where’d you read that?
        Hezbollah begun bombing Israel in support of Hamas. They’re also funded by Iran (much more than Hamas though).
        Meanwhile Palestinians live in camps in Lebanon. Some of those walled and surrounded by watchtowers.
        They have less rights there than anyone else (including refugees and migrant workers), despite living there for 3 generations at this point.

        Turkey under Erdogan has been mostly hosting Hamas leaders while bombing Kurds in Syria.

        I don’t think much needs to be said about Assad.

        The only country in the area which actually helped Palestinians was Jordan. Although that also changed for a while after Black September.

        Most of UNRWA’s funding over the years has come from the EU and USA.

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          Israel is holy waqf land that belongs to Muslims and should be cleansed from Jews.

          That’s crazy because I’ve heard Israelis assert the exact opposite.

          Most of UNRWA’s funding over the years has come from the EU and USA.

          There’s a certain dramatic irony in funding UNRWA, paying Israel to bomb UNRWA, and then claiming you’re the only folks providing aid to Palestinians.

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            That’s crazy because I’ve heard Israelis assert the exact opposite.

            Yes, religious extremists exist also in Israel.

            There’s a certain dramatic irony in funding UNRWA, paying Israel to bomb UNRWA, and then claiming you’re the only folks providing aid to Palestinians.

            I’m not the one who wrote USA is the only one providing aid.
            What you quoted is the reality. The bulk of the funding over the years has been from the USA and the EU.

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      You can look into any Islam media and you would find they actively burn u.s. flags on state media and call for our destruction.

      Well yes. Do you have any idea how much US neo-colonialism has harmed the Middle East over the past 70 years? Your country supports ISIS for fuck’s sake go touch some grass.

      Also why do you think their Muslim brothers won’t help them? Surely not because most of the Arab world is run by American puppets.