On Friday, during Microsoft’s 50th-anniversary celebration in Redmond, Washington, a Moroccan engineer and a Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad interrupted the event with a powerful protest against the tech giant’s involvement in the ongoing Genocide in Gaza. As AI chief Mustafa Suleyman addressed an audience that included Bill Gates, Aboussad stood and shouted, “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide.” Despite his cool, casual dress, Suleyman, a Syrian-American and the head of Microsoft’s AI division, was visibly shaken and uncool. “Mustafa, shame on you,” Ms. Aboussad called on him as she was walking toward the stage.,
“Thank you for your protest, I hear you,” Suleyman responded, trying to keep his cool. “Fifty thousand people have died, and Microsoft powers this genocide in our region,” she fired back as security escorted her out, leaving the audience stunned. Aboussad wasn’t worried about losing her hefty, prestigious job at Microsoft. Her protest underscores the growing concern over the role of U.S. tech companies in the Gaza genocide. A report by Over 972 Magazine earlier this year revealed Microsoft’s increasing involvement in Israeli military operations, noting a surge in the sale of cloud and AI services to the Israeli army since the escalation in Gaza. Ms. Abousaad became a social media sensation and female superhero in the Arab /Muslim world, “she is better than 100 men; one posted on X in Arabic, then another increased it to better than 1000 men, “She is better than a million men.” Top it another, increasing the courage measuring unit of men. Ms. Aboussad’s Microsoft protest shed light on a fact that was lost in most on the Hands-Off protest, where there weren’t signs criticizing the Biden administration; the only American president who visited Israel during a war, Biden, has supplied Israel with the most devastating technologically advanced weapons, funding, and political cover during a campaign that human rights organizations have labeled as ethnic cleansing, where over 100,000 Palestinians have been killed mostly civilians, women, and children. At the Hands Off” rally, no mention of the Bush wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that caused the death of millions, Obama, the champion of democracy and liberals, as Aljazeera explained in his secrete “Kill lists,” was “Barack Obama’s blind spot He opposes the death penalty in the US after lengthy trials but issued kill orders for Muslims overseas with no trial at all.” Turning the “Kill Lists” to a form of American secular fatwa. If Nazim used science and new technology to build gas chambers to effectively and efficiently exterminate millions of people in Europe, The Apartheid state of Israel and the West are now using technology with more advanced—artificial intelligence, algorism surveillance, and cloud computing repurposed for war and genocide. This isn’t science fiction; it’s the reality that Palestinians live every day. The same value-free technology is used to target and eliminate entire populations. What we are witnessing is a modern form of techno-fascism—technology-powered authoritarianism—that bears a frightening resemblance to history’s darkest chapters. As Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman explained, monstrous atrocities are not always done by monsters… “They are done by ordinary people like you and me”. He marveled; so if the victims were the Jews, and other groups like, gay men, disabled people, the Roma and Sinti (often referred to as ‘Gypsies’) and the Slavs. With Nazim, now they are the Palestinians with Zionism. Ibtihal Aboussad, was fired on Monday, according to Microsoft; because of “willful misconduct, disobedience or neglect of duty.” After the firing of Ms. Abousaad, from Microsoft; Ms. Abousaad got a formal offer from the Kuwaiti businessman and software entrepreneur Abdullah Al-Dubos, and she got offers from across the Arab/Muslim world, she became a champion of courage and integrity in a world that void of neither, here are a link to a few posts on X supporting Ibithal Abousaad. . So hey America, Hands-Off Ibithal Abousaad.
