The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Google to immediately cancel a reported $45 million advertising campaign promoting Israeli government narratives on its platforms, including YouTube, amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
CAIR Called on all tech platforms to take similarly reject pro-genocide propaganda.
According to a recent exposé published by Drop Site News, Google has entered into a multi-million-dollar agreement to amplify content produced by the Israeli government. This includes promotional material whitewashing and denying the ongoing Israel’s manufactured starvation and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Drop Site News reports: “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.”
Israeli terror forces have slaughtered more than 64,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children. Even Israeli data shows that 83 percent of those slaughtered were civilians. Out of 376 malnutrition-related deaths as a result of the Israeli-induced famine, 134 are children. New data from a United Nations committee showing that Israel has wounded more than 40,000 children in Gaza — resulting in at least 21,000 children being permanently disabled.
“It is morally reprehensible for Google to profit from the deliberate dissemination of propaganda while the Israeli government is under investigation for genocide,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. “American companies should not be complicit in the cover-up of slaughter, mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, and forced starvation, especially as Palestinian civilians, including children, continue to suffer and die.”
CAIR said that tech platforms have a responsibility to ensure their services are not misused to promote pro-genocide propaganda.
“If Google truly believes in human rights and ethical practices, it must cancel this contract and review its global advertising policies,” said Awad. “Silicon Valley must not become a propaganda arm for any government engaged in genocide and crimes against humanity.”
Yesterday, CAIR sent a letter to America’s largest media outlets calling on them to consistently broadcast video of the Israeli government’s ongoing destruction of Gaza City, including the killing dozens of children on a daily basis.
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