Meta Project Manager Resigns, Citing Company’s Complicity in Israel’s Gaza Genocide

Dublin (QNN)- A Project Manager at Meta has announced his resignation after more than three years with the company, citing its complicity in the ongoing “Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

Taking to social media, Muthanna Alfaris, an Iraqi national based in Dublin, announced his resignation this week.

Reasons Behind Resignation

After more than three years working at Meta, employed in positions from Market Specialist to Project Manager, “I am resigning from my position as a project manager in Integrity Operations in protest over the company’s role in enabling human rights abuses, including Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians,” Alfaris said in a statement.

“I believe my work has been drawn into militarized applications, biased enforcement of policies, and partnerships with defense contractors that risk serious human-rights violations. When a company reportedly supports a military committing a genocide, those of us who value fairness and human rights for all cannot stay silent.

My concerns at Meta began as a Market Specialist working on content policy detection and enforcement automation, where I was disturbed by what appeared to be stark, unexplained biased disparities in how content and profiles were handled across markets.

These concerns followed me into my role as Project Manager in Integrity Operations, where they deepened.

News reports revealed Meta’s partnerships with weapons manufacturer Anduril. I learned that individuals with ties to the Israeli apartheid system had been placed in sensitive roles, potentially influencing critical decisions.

When I realized that my work improving data quality for large language models, red-teaming Al, and building automation tools risked making me complicit in the bloodshed of my Palestinian brothers and sisters by enabling weapons development such as the partnership with Anduril and undisclosed ties with Israeli government, it was the last straw.

In addition to the fear that Al is being used to target innocents. I have also witnessed:

Policy gaps and uneven enforcement resulting in systematically biased content moderation against Palestinian voices and Arabic content. From what I saw, Hebrew violations were deprioritized, while takedown requests from Israeli sources received expedited review and executive attention.

Platform vulnerabilities were reportedly. exploited to harvest user data, which Israeli occupation forces openly admitted using to target people for assassination, detention, or military strikes. Meta leadership offered no fix or adequate response, and these same issues have now been detailed in a lawsuit by WhatsApp’s former head of security.

I cannot separate my technical contributions from the broader harm Meta is enabling, regardless of which team I work on. It is for these reasons that I resign.

Calls to Stop Enabling Genocide

As he exists Meta, here is Alfaris calls:

To Industry Leaders: To CEOs and boards across Big Tech (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia, and others):

I call on Big Tech to stop enabling genocide and war crimes around the world. End these contracts, refuse future deals, and confront the truth: complicity in mass atrocities carries consequences no company can escape.

To people in Ireland, my home:

Ireland has a proud tradition of neutrality and human-rights leadership. I call on the Irish public to demand elected representatives ensure Irish airspace and seas are not used to facilitate the transfer of weapons and military aid to ongoing conflicts, including Gaza.

To fellow employees in tech companies:

Use your expertise to build a more equitable world-not to help Israel kill Palestinian families. Put your skills toward life-saving medicine, sustainable energy, accessibility, climate solutions, education, and public-interest
infrastructure. Political winds shift. What you defend today may be indefensible
tomorrow.

If your company won’t stop enabling harm, take a public stand: organize, refuse harmful work, or resign. Let’s put our energy into solving humanity’s hardest problems-not create new ones.

Meta’s Complicity in Israel’s Gaza Genocide

Meta has faced years of criticism for favoring Israel in moderation decisions. However, the scale of takedowns since October 2023, the start of the genocide, marks what experts now call one of the largest global censorship operations in the digital age.

Despite internal concerns and external reports, Meta has not changed course. Insiders stress that the company “actively enabled” Israel’s strategy to suppress Palestinian voices online.