RPG Tenderfoot Tactics removed from Xbox Store in solidarity with pro-Palestine boycott: ‘We call on others in our community to do whatever they can to fight this historic injustice’

Following revelations about the Israeli military’s use of Microsoft’s AI and cloud-computing systems in its bombardment of Gaza, as reported by The Guardian, the BDS movement called Microsoft “perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians”. When some of Microsoft’s own employees publicly protested against its supply of AI technology to the Israeli military, they were fired.

“The Israeli military uses AI to sift through vast troves of intelligence, intercepted communications and surveillance to find suspicious speech or behavior and learn the movements of its enemies”, Associated Press explained as part of an investigation that “also revealed new details of how AI systems select targets and ways they can go wrong, including faulty data or flawed algorithms. It was based on internal documents, data and exclusive interviews with current and former Israeli officials and company employees.”