Want to respond to a comment below:

The second we shift discussions about bigotry to "but x is x", in this case "but Arabs are semites too", we start acting in bad faith. Please do not pollute the discussion of ICE ads on Twitch with nonsense rhetoric that downplays antisemitism and is masked as criticism of Israel. There's a time and a place, this thread is not about Israel. And I'm not condoning Israel, but please just stay relevant here.

**** ICE.

All my homies hate ICE.

also maybe read the iron wall twitch staff, it addresses Zionism and colonization although from the perspective of people stanning colonization and ignoring Indigenous autonomy but yea - they said it. Palestinians were there first. and they were trying to take their land.

and how stuff like the Iron Wall normalizes and justifies colonization and brutality against Indigenous populations

and MAYBE WE SHOULDN'T FURTHER PERPETUATE THAT

https://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf

3/3 because I really thought it would only be two but ok

YEA SO it would be great if You would stop bending the knee to people who make the world unsafe, especially for your marginalized streamers on this platform.
WE EXIST outside of this screen.
All of these things are connected.
Refusing to see that and being complicit and further perpetuating harm and normalizing or JUSTIFYING brutality - what are You doing? IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PROFIT OVER PEOPLE.

MAKE THIS SPACE SAFER INSTEAD OF GIVING FEATURES WE DIDN'T ASK FOR OR LIMITING HOW MANY VIDEOS WE CAN HAVE STORED BECAUSE OF YOUR PROFIT MARGINS.

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Shut down BP: it is complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/17/bp-protest-israel
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BP was also featured in a prime day special discount
again, significant since our paychecks are from Amazon, the parent company.
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/july-3-6-amazon-prime-save-1-per-gallon-on-gas-up-to-35-gallons
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Report: Countries and Companies Sending Israel Oil May Be Complicit in Genocide
Over half the fuel shipments to Israel occurred after the World Court’s January ruling of “plausible” genocide.
https://truthout.org/articles/report-countries-and-companies-sending-israel-oil-may-be-complicit-in-genocide
Countries like the U.S. and companies like Chevron and BP have been providing Israel with crude oil and other fuels amid the genocide, according to new findings by Oil Change International.
Of the 65 oil and fuel shipments to Israel since October that the group analyzed, over half occurred after the January finding by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel may plausibly be committing genocide.
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Organized labor vs. Project Nimbus
Michael Arria talks to organizers in the tech industry working to counter Project Nimbus, a joint Amazon/Google project with the Israeli military.
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/10/organized-labor-vs-project-nimbus
just a lack of accessibility heads up - no transcript.
so I ran it as the audio source in my captioner plug in in obs so I could have the text on my screen - for those who need to see the words or otherwise are HOH.
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Meet Blue Wolf, the app Israel uses to spy on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
An explosive report in the Washington Post reveals extensive Israeli military surveillance project in West Bank
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-whats-blue-wolf-app-soldiers-use-photograph-palestinians
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza
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Timeline: the humanitarian impact of the Gaza blockade
https://www.oxfam.org/en/timeline-humanitarian-impact-gaza-blockade
2018 marks 51 years since the occupation of the Palestinian Territory and 11 years of the Gaza blockade.
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A Brief History of Israel’s 33-Year Long Policy of Starving Gaza
Origins of the famine unfolding before our eyes can be traced to January 1991
https://palestinenexus.com/articles/brief-history-israels-33year-long-policy-starving-gaza
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The Oslo Accords: Failure or Betrayal?
Palestinians reflect on the past 30 years since the first Oslo Accords were signed and all the ways in which the agreement impacted their lives, pushing them even further away from achieving liberation and statehood.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/the-oslo-accords-failure-or-betrayal
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War on Gaza: How language used by media outlets downplays Palestinian suffering
Linguists say that media's use of the passive voice and choice of terminology is being weaponised by Israel while downplaying crimes in Gaza
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-how-media-language-manipulated-justify-killing-palestinians-and-used-dehumanise-them
and I guess the most important:
Dangerous exchange: Israeli forces international training
The US military funding to Israel amounts to USD$3,8 billion per year.
In addition there are constant exchanges of practices in military technology and police tactics through training programmes that bring together US police, ICE, border patrol, and FBI with Israeli soldiers, police and border agents.
https://www.thepipd.com/content/blog/dangerous-exchange-israeli-forces-international-training
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DEADLY EXCHANGE
The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel
https://deadlyexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Deadly-Exchange-Report.pdf
This report examines how these exchanges
with the Israeli military, police, and intelligence
agencies reinforce American law enforcement
practices of:
• Expanding surveillance: Including comprehensive visual monitoring in public places and online, and the heightened infiltration of social movements and entire communities;
• Justifying racial profiling: Marking Black and Brown people as suspect, particularly Arabs and Muslims, and refining the policies, tactics, and technologies that target communities and social movements that seek racial justice;
• Suppressing public protests through use of force: Treating protestors as enemy combatants and controlling media coverage of state violence
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My original comment was too long and I also had to use another browser to post so I am using my not main account to post this because I cannot be bothered to log in and out just to post here. GEEZUS. Will try to post everything within two posts, assuming that is allowed, which it may not be.

I am so tired of Amazon/twitch and their complicity in genocide.
Not only that but You allow sponsors like Chevron who harm the planet that we live on and most of us do not have the money to leave and colonize another planet just to trash it like we are here speedrunning the apocalypse here.
Also - colonizing is not the answer; hopefully we can collectively be aware and fight against further colonization here on this planet and potentially on others. Colonization isn't the answer.
I know there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, HOWEVER there could be LESS BLATANT bending to fascism/apartheid/oppression of marginalized groups for money.
so I will just put some links here for both sides
for people who def do not stan genocide or fascism
and for twitch staff who seem to be blissfully ignorant of the world outside of the screens and gleen income off of streamers who exploit themselves to survive capitalism - that You make better decisions on who to elevate/advertise on Your platform for capitalism.
maybe you are also unaware of white supremacy since barely anything is done to fight racism/Anti Blackness/Islamophobia/Sinophobia/Xenophobia if You are allowing ICE RECRUITMENT ADS.
Those people on the mayflower didn't come here legally so idk wtf You are letting people who want to get rid of "illegal" people when this land was stolen and people genocided to form this country.
Native American Girls Describe the REAL History Behind Thanksgiving | Teen Vogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7jLeBWMA0U
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The United States Has Still Not Acknowledged It Committed Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discusses how genocide against Native peoples is integral to settler colonialism.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-united-states-has-still-not-acknowledged-it-committed-genocide-against-indigenous-peoples
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About anti Semitism: Arab people are Semitic.

Semitic languages

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semitic-languages

Semitic languages, languages that form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. ... In the early 21st century the most important Semitic language, in terms of the number of speakers, was Arabic.

So people standing up against genocide and the violence from Israel is not anti Semitic when Arab speakers are also Semitic. It's a language grouping.
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What is Settler Colonialism?

https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/what-is-settler-colonialism

Settler colonialism more specifically is a term for when the colonizer comes to stay and as such the distinction between the colony and the imperial nation is lost. Settler colonialism as a structure requires genocide.
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Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, tantamount to ‘settler-colonialism’: UN expert

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129942
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BDS movement Calls for a Consumer Boycott of Chevron-branded gas stations

https://bdsmovement.net/news/bds-movement-calls-for-consumer-boycott-chevron-branded-gas-stations

Now, we are calling on supporters of Palestinian rights and climate justice to escalate pressure on Chevron by boycotting Chevron gas stations and gas stations owned by Chevron, including Texaco and Caltex. There are thousands of Chevron, Texaco, and Caltex gas and petrol stations worldwide.

Chevron was a major sponsor at twitch con.
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Chevron’s Environmental Crimes: 13 Years of Evasion and Escalation

On the 13th anniversary of the historic $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron, Ecuador's current government could betray its own people in favor of big oil interests

https://amazonwatch.org/news/2024/0214-chevrons-environmental-crimes-13-years-of-evasion-and-escalation
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Boycotting Chevron for Fueling Genocide

https://www.yesmagazine.org/political-power/2025/03/31/chevron-boycott-gaza-genocide
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Twitch should absolutely not allow ICE ads on their platform, not now or ever. ICE is a racist organization, a disgrace, and abhorrent.

As a person of color, who lives in an area with a VAST minority population, I do not feel comfortable having an ICE ad play during my streams when my community knows where I stand with the Trumpkin Regime and what they are doing. I do not condone or support it. Get your **** together Twitch.

Twitch currently has no plans, nor has it been approached to run ads for ICE in the USA, according to Chief Product Officer Mikey Minty.

https://bsky.app/profile/zachbussey.tos.gg/post/3lvrnzk3z3c2n

Absolutely agree, ICE is against my views and having them potentially stick ads on my streams is despicable. As an immigrant myself, we should not be discriminatory towards those who come from different backgrounds, cultures, or religions, and showing ads for ICE goes against my stream vibes and rules.

I am FIRMLY against allowing literal kidnappers and lawbreakers advertise on Twitch, this includes ICE and the U.S Government who has repeatedly broken the U.S constitution, national and international laws, the Geneva Convention and basic morality and ethics.

Twitch should not allow ads from fascist/authoritarian governments or organizations on its platform at all.

False alarm or not, this is absolutely pathetic. Twitch needs that middleman, and it's letting content creators opt out of certain ads.

ICE are racist kidnappers. I do not want to see any ads from them, and ads for them should not even be on the platform. A lot of people already feel unsafe as it is in this stupid fascist world, and our favorite streamers are one of the FEW escapes from that fear.
**** ICE.

Support for ICE in any form is tantamount to Hate-Speech and Hate-Crimes.

If those are things you still wish to prohibit on you're site- the best course of action is to lead by example, and refuse to air those ads.

There's a ton of stuff that is better to advertise than politics or a system that does harm to people without any due process. Its flat out kidnapping, most disguising and disgraceful as its only a dehumanizing tactic to attract those who are full of hate.

thankfully this was a false alarm, but honestly letting streamers opt out of certain ads (cough cough military recruitment of any kind, AI garbage cough cough) would be a good option to add

The kidnapping and trafficking of innocent people by ICE is not something we want to promote on our stream. It is not worth any price.

The fact that we don't get the ability to control ads outside of length and frequency is shameful enough as it is, now immigrant streamers and viewers have to possibly watch ads that dehumanize them for the "crime" of immigrating to the United States without much say about it? This is unacceptable.

Ads shouldn't equal endorsements unless they are an explicit ad readout for a sponsorship, but it's still not a good look for ICE or US military recruitment ads to run on your channel even if it's without your consent, which is the standard on Twitch and needs to change. We need more control over advertising on our channels.

Absolutely abhorrent even if you don't plan on accepting these ads; that we have to uservoice to tell you not to. I hope they respond, instead of ignoring this like they've done with BOTH GenAI slop uservoices.