Microsoft doesn’t get scrutinized as much as its peers, but the corporation provides a bold example of how corporations benefit from, and contribute to, Israeli militarism and violence. Microsoft cultivates and helps export Israel’s dangerous tools, while also sanitizing the deadly US-Israeli alliance with the help of non-profits and academic partnerships.
[mailpoet_form id=”3″] Microsoft Drops AnyVision Let’s begin with some good news amid these dark times.…
Microsoft has announced that its divesting its shareholding in the Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision. The move follows an audit which was forced by a BDS campaign targeting the company. “Microsoft’s decision to heed the calls of the campaign to drop the Israeli surveillance company AnyVision is a huge and timely BDS victory,” announced the the Palestinian BDS National Committee.
The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. Ramzy Baroud writes now Palestinians should be more worried than ever, as NBC discovered Microsoft has funded the Israeli firm AnyVision, which supplied the IDF with facial recognition software.