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Banner: white text on a teal background. Advocating for Peace, from Palestine to the Stars
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palestinespace.bsky.social Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 27d
PSI Fellowship applications are now open! 🚀

The second round of our fellowship will focus on Earth Observation for Gaza, exploring how satellite data can support justice, accountability, and sustainability.

Application form: tiny.cc/psi-fellowship
Deadline: November 10, 2025
Graphic announcement with the Palestine Space Institute logo. Text reads: “Call for Applications. Palestine Space Institute Fellowship 2025–2026. Deadline: November 10. Apply Now.” The background features a glowing blue gradient. Palestine Space Institute logo and header “PSI Fellowship 2025 Research Areas.” Text describes two Earth Observation research areas: Data and technical analysis (remote sensing, satellite imagery, open datasets). Legal and policy considerations (data access, sovereignty, privacy, and international space law). Blue gradient background.
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
palestinespace.bsky.social
PSI Fellowship applications are now open! 🚀

The second round of our fellowship will focus on Earth Observation for Gaza, exploring how satellite data can support justice, accountability, and sustainability.

Application form: tiny.cc/psi-fellowship
Deadline: November 10, 2025
Graphic announcement with the Palestine Space Institute logo. Text reads: “Call for Applications. Palestine Space Institute Fellowship 2025–2026. Deadline: November 10. Apply Now.” The background features a glowing blue gradient. Palestine Space Institute logo and header “PSI Fellowship 2025 Research Areas.” Text describes two Earth Observation research areas: Data and technical analysis (remote sensing, satellite imagery, open datasets). Legal and policy considerations (data access, sovereignty, privacy, and international space law). Blue gradient background.
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Our @palestinespace.bsky.social database of 82 companies and their complicity in the genocide or supply of the zionist arms industry is now public.

We also now have a database of products & their documented use in the genocide. Fill out the form for access.

www.palestinespace.org/psi-database
Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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In fact the opposite, I stopped hearing from all the space freelancers overnight !
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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And remember when we revealed that at least half of NASA spending—$39 billion—goes to companies that arm the zionist entity and the funding was in part for weapons development

And no one picked that up or particularly cared
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Remember when we revealed that NASA had purchased hundreds of lethal firearms directly from Glock for border patrol at NASA sites and no one picked that up or particularly cared
October 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Last year, PSI launched its Fellowship Program to support critical research at the intersection of space, justice, and decolonization. Join us this upcoming Monday, October 27 at 7pm CET, for our inaugural Fellowship Showcase.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The Palestine Space Institute logo in the middle of the page. It is a white 2-D hexagon or 3-D cube formed from the letters PSI. Center aligned white text above the logo says “Palestine Space Institute Fellowship Showcase.” Center aligned white text underneath the logo says “Join to learn more about the work of our 2024 PSI Fellows October 27 at 7PM CET.” There is a button that says register now. The background is dark blue and teal gradient. On a dark blue and teal gradient background there's white text that says: PALESTINE SPACE INSTITUTE EVENT PROGRAM 7:00 Introduction to the Palestine Space Institute Sahba El-Shawa, PSI Founder 7:05 Dissecting Empire: 2 Years of the PSI Space and MIC Database Divya M. Persaud, PSI Research Manager 7:20 Profiting from Genocide: Financial Benefits of U.S. Space and Defense Companies after October 2023 Oguz Karasu, PSI Fellow 2024 7:35 Dare mighty (classified) things? How American defense interests guide and censor the development, operation, and distribution of space technology through time Adeene Denton, PSI Fellow 2024 7:50 Q&A and Discussion 8:15 Fellowship Round 2 Presentation Giuliana Rotola, PSI Fellowship Coordinator 8:25 Closing Remarks
October 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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AJ (Link) is our comrade at @palestinespace.bsky.social and he would love you to click this link and read about PSI’s work. Hope I said Link enough. Link
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Follow @palestinespace.bsky.social and the link in their bio, cant type it
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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On Monday, @palestinespace.bsky.social is holding a fellowship showcase with talks from our 2024 fellows, alongside our announcement of Round 2. I'll also present 2 years of work on our community resource, the Space + MIC Database.

Information & registration: www.palestinespace.org/psi-fellowship
Palestine Space Institute - PSI Fellowship
Last year, PSI launched its Fellowship Program to support critical research at the intersection of space, justice, and decolonization. Join us on Monday, October 27 at 7PM CET as we conclude our first...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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What journalist is going to cover that there are 36 genocide profiteers at one of the biggest space conferences in the world? Some have legal filings against them for war crimes? Read more: palestinespace.org/iac2025 #IAC2025 #SpaceComplicity
palestinespace.bsky.social Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · Sep 25
As the genocide in Gaza continues, the IAC is about to take place under the theme of "Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth." But what does it mean to celebrate "sustainable" space while profiting from the violence of war and colonialism on Earth?

Register at palestinespace.org/iac2025
Dark blue and teal poster with logos of Palestine Space Institute and (Un)Common Cosmos at the top. The bold title reads “IAC Counter Event: Spacewashing, Justice, and Genocide in Gaza.” Subtext explains the event confronts the space industry’s complicity in colonialism, militarism, and genocide, exposing companies profiting from war and colonial violence and creating space for justice-driven visions of exploration. A turquoise starry map outline of Palestine is on the right. A highlighted box states: “This is a call to resist. To hold our industry accountable. To demand a future for space that is rooted in justice rather than violence.” Event details: Wednesday October 1st, 4–6 PM AEST, University of Sydney, with exact location shared upon registration. The bottom notes the event is taking place on the Traditional Lands of the Gadigal people and includes a QR code for info and registration.
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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If you’re not in Australia or can’t make it in person for whatever reason, you can register to attend virtually at the link below.

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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If you’re not in Australia or can’t make it in person for whatever reason, you can register to attend virtually at the link below.

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This event is 63 years to the day after Hazem Zaki Nuseibeh, Rep of Jordan & proud Palestinian, spoke to the UNGA.

First, about space & the need for law - but law as pathway to justice, as right over might. Then, he moved directly to what that would mean for Palestine.

docs.un.org/en/A/PV.1138
UNGA, ‘Verbatim Record of the 1138th Meeting’ (1 Oct 1962) A/PV.1138, 239-240 “10. But of more immediate and lasting significance than exploration and control of outer space is our ability to control our inner selves, to make this planet a place worthy of decent and friendly habitation. And it is here in this hall that we meet in what is the most encompassing parliament of nations, to lay down the foundations for peace, goodwill and co-operation among nations. If we should fail in this pivotal task, then all the efforts which are being expended in various fields will have been of no avail, with the threat of extinction continuing to hover menacingly over our fates.” “11. But world peace cannot be achieved by pious hopes or even under the compulsion of fear or the instinctive desire for survival. Any such assumption would be a serious misreading not only of history, but of the inner springs of human motivation and behaviour. For there will always be differences and conflicts so long as human beings are what they are. What is imperative is that these conflicts and differences be dealt with and resolved in accordance with norms, procedures and attitudes that are just, equitable and commanding of universal acceptance and respect; it is essentially the rule of law, rather than the unruly whims or interests of any particular group. This has been the function and the achievement of domestic law in national societies. It is our challenge to make it equally applicable in the field of international relations.” “12. The question now is: How can the Unite Nations work out a modus vivendi which would bring it as close as possible to a universally acceptable rule of law?” “17. As I address you, my mind irresistibly wanders several thousand miles away to where my countrymen – men, women and children, in town and in village, in refugee camps and in forced dispersal under every sky – have endured their suffering for fourteen long years. They are suffering morally, psychologically and physically, day in and day out, before the very eyes of the United Nations and, ironically, at a period which we boast to be the era of mankind's greatest emancipation.” “18. It would be redundant for me to restate the facts of the case, for there is hardly any other problem which has been discussed as thoroughly or as repeatedly during the past years; and yet, there is hardly any other case where less positive action has been taken.” “19. My countrymen, simple honest folks, are somewhat confused and bewildered by the snarls and the tangles with which a seemingly straightforward case has been side-tracked and shrouded, and I would be less than honest to them, or to you, if I did not restore the problem to its true, simple essentials.” “20. The truth of the problem is that here is a people – an ancient and homogeneous people – who have in the twentieth century not only been denied the right to self-government or self-determination, but even the right to exist in the homeland in which their forefathers have lived and died from time immemorial. They have been uprooted to make room for a conglomeration of alien peoples from all corners of the earth, having different backgrounds, different traditions, different languages and different races, and claiming to be united on the sole ground of professing the same religious faith. What a disservice to a great religion that its name should be used for such unholy and irreligious ends; for a blatant aggression against the very existence of another people.”
September 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Then came the quote that's haunted me today:

"If there should be a continuance of the present attitude of complacency and indifference to the plight of... Palestine, can we in all honesty ascribe it to anything but an attitude of inertia, of unwillingness, rather than to an inability to act?”
"23. If there should be a continuance of the present attitude of complacency and indifference to the plight of the Arabs of Palestine, can we in all honesty ascribe it to anything but an attitude of inertia, of unwillingness, rather than to an inability to act?”
September 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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just spent 5 hours writing up results of looking at spectral satellite images over Gaza for @palestinespace.bsky.social... the world should burn... what will you do today to stop this...
September 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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If someone agrees that space is a "province of all (hu)mankind" - but then draws a line at Palestinians - they're telling on themselves...
September 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Updated link: www.palestinespace.org/iac2025
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IAC Side Counter Event: Spacewashing, Justice, and Genocide in Gaza The Palestine Space Institute (PSI), together with (Un)common Cosmos, will host a public counter-event on October 1, 2025, at the Un...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Now is a very good time for folks to reconsider the links between the MIC and space exploration. This week isn't the first time I've been advised to be ready to jump to a defense contractor to "survive" as a planetary scientist, and it won't be last. Really makes you think!!
April 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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As the genocide in Gaza continues, the IAC is about to take place under the theme of "Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth." But what does it mean to celebrate "sustainable" space while profiting from the violence of war and colonialism on Earth?

Register at palestinespace.org/iac2025
Dark blue and teal poster with logos of Palestine Space Institute and (Un)Common Cosmos at the top. The bold title reads “IAC Counter Event: Spacewashing, Justice, and Genocide in Gaza.” Subtext explains the event confronts the space industry’s complicity in colonialism, militarism, and genocide, exposing companies profiting from war and colonial violence and creating space for justice-driven visions of exploration. A turquoise starry map outline of Palestine is on the right. A highlighted box states: “This is a call to resist. To hold our industry accountable. To demand a future for space that is rooted in justice rather than violence.” Event details: Wednesday October 1st, 4–6 PM AEST, University of Sydney, with exact location shared upon registration. The bottom notes the event is taking place on the Traditional Lands of the Gadigal people and includes a QR code for info and registration.
September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Anyway you don't have to just take my word for it, @palestinespace.bsky.social's database has all the info you need on just how intertwined NASA and the defense industry are: www.palestinespace.org/psi-database
Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
www.palestinespace.org
April 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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“What space companies do we know also make weapons that are involved in the genocide in Gaza…we identified 51 companies.”

Read the report from @palestinespace.bsky.social: www.palestinespace.org/psi-database
Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
www.palestinespace.org
June 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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So…as a remote sensing scientist with @palestinespace.bsky.social:

Maxar builds spacecraft for the entity specifically to surveil Palestine. (And, along with Planet, embargoes public data *seemingly right before* atrocities happen—for newspapers.)

These are lynching photos.

From genocidaires.
aric.bsky.social Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Jul 30
On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up
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July 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM