Today we are launching the Tech for Palestine Incubator. The incubator helps pro-Palestine advocates build, grow, and scale their work towards a Free Palestine. We support projects — whether collections of individuals, registered non-profits, or even companies — whose mission helps Palestine, especially advocacy groups building technical products or in the tech space.

We support these initiatives with mentorship, volunteers, marketing support, and connections to the broader Palestinian advocacy ecosystem, as well as a community of likeminded leaders. It’s free, supported like the rest of T4P by a broad base of dedicated and skilled volunteers: you can apply today.

What Kind of Projects is T4P Supporting?

We are currently supporting 20 projects in our incubator. You have probably heard of some of them, as the biggest, Boycat and Newscord, have blown up in the past few months!

Boycat is an adorable but serious mobile app and Chrome extension, used to scan products to determine whether they are under boycott.

Newscord is an app that uses artificial intelligence to analyze and expose the bias between different media sources to help people learn what is really happening and to develop critical reading skills.

We also have a bunch of exciting earlier-stage projects - I’m not supposed to have favorites so I’ll just say that these are interesting:

Apricot - A non-profit tech studio and placement service dedicated to connecting US companies with highly skilled Palestinian Tech Talent, with amazing english, a convenient time zone, and a great price. Apricot can help you hire amazing engineers and tech workers remotely, or consult to run projects for you.

Find-a-Protest - Find protests near you easily, with a search engine that lists pro-Palestine protests near you.

Ethics.vc - The Institute of Ethical Venture Capital rates VC firms for complicity in crimes against humanity, an area where they are surprisingly active. These ratings can inform investors into VC funds, such as university endowments, pension funds, and can be especially useful for stakeholders who wish to hold them accountable.

Pal-Chat- Imagine ChatGPT that’s not biased against Palestine! Pal-chat is a chatbot that is trained on accurate information about the history and present state of Palestine, including international treaties, important studies and research, that is specifically aimed at helping activists quickly research and respond to questions about Palestine. It even provides references!

A new and exciting project is Jaywalk, described as “Waze for protests”. With Jaywalk, it becomes easy for advocates to share information about locations, dangers, aid services, and other dynamic needs protesters have in the field.

Why are we doing this?

Our Theory of Change is that there are thousands of well-funded projects that help to oppress Palestine, affecting tech, media, politics, etc. We want to be the source of thousands of projects which stand for human rights, equality, and freedom for Palestinians.

By supporting these projects in their early stages with our volunteering and marketing, alongside advice and mentorship from experienced founders, we can counter-balance the ecosystem and help people understand the scale of the violation of Palestinian rights.

How can you help?

You can help support Palestine through T4P in a number of ways:

• Start your own project and apply to the incubator
• Volunteer to join a T4P project
• Check out the T4P projects, and share your favorites
• Join our community on Discord
• Share our posts on X [1, 2], Instagram [1, 2], and LinkedIn
• Follow us on X and Instagram, and Mastodon