Tech For Palestine Conference in Brussels Features Hezbollah-Linked Activist
The conference will feature Dyab Abou Jahjah, who previously said he joined Hezbollah and received military training, alongside figures scrutinized over extremist rhetoric and alleged terror links.
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Tech for Palestine is set to host a conference in Brussels on June 6, 2026, bringing together what it calls “organizers, lawyers, journalists, policy workers, business professionals and engineers” to discuss “liberation tech, exposing complicity, and resistance.” A closer examination of the speaker lineup reveals figures with alleged ties to U.S.-designated terror organizations, histories of antisemitic statements, and support for violence against Israelis.
The event, titled “Solidarity Is Action,” will host 18 speakers at the Maison des Associations Internationales, the meeting house for international civil society in the heart of Brussels.
Dyab Abou Jahjah: Founder and General Director, Hind Rajab Foundation
Among the speakers is Dyab Abou Jahjah, the Lebanese-Belgian founder and general director of the Belgian-based Hind Rajab Foundation, who The New York Times previously reported had said he joined Hezbollah’s “resistance” against Israel and “had some military training.”
He also confessed to fabricating his asylum claim to Belgian authorities, stating: “Most asylum seekers invent a story, and I said I had a conflict with Hezbollah leaders. It was just a low political trick to get my papers.” He has maintained his support for the terror organization, eulogizing Hassan Nasrallah in 2024 and claiming he met the Hezbollah leader in 2001.
On the day of Hamas’ Oct 7th massacre, Abou Jahjah posted on Facebook: “These Palestinian resistance fighters entering these settlements are all refugees whose parents were ethnically cleansed from these villages in 1948/1967.”
In 2017, De Standaard fired Abou Jahjah after he wrote “By any means necessary, #freepalestine” following a truck-ramming attack that killed four Israeli soldiers. Following the 9/11 attacks, he described that him and many Muslims felt “sweet revenge.”
Over the weekend, Abou Jahjah spoke at an event in Brussels alongside the U.S.-designated terror group, Samidoun.
Hana Jalloul Muro: Spanish Member of the European Parliament
Hana Jalloul Muro, a Member of the European Parliament representing Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group, will speak at the conference. Her scheduled appearance would place a sitting European Parliament member on the program alongside activists and commentators whose records have drawn controversy over extremist rhetoric, terrorism-related associations, or anti-Israel advocacy.
Paul Biggar: Founder and CEO, Tech for Palestine
Paul Biggar, founder and CEO of Tech for Palestine, is set to speak at the conference as the leader of the organization convening the event. The Irish-born Silicon Valley executive, who was removed from CircleCI’s board after publicly calling investors “Brownshirts” and “camp guards” while declaring he would boycott firms that “whitewash genocide,” has built a technology infrastructure supporting anti-Israel activism.
Tech for Palestine developed WordsOfJustice.org, an AI-driven system that targeted Jewish tech investors through mass-reporting campaigns, as well as JayWalk, a protest coordination app that allows users to find and organize demonstrations nationwide.
Tech for Palestine’s ecosystem also extends into social media. UpScrolled, a platform described by media and watchdog reporting as backed or supported by Tech for Palestine, has drawn scrutiny over extremist and antisemitic content, including an account using Hamas branding and linking to Hamas’s official website, as well as accounts associated with al-Furqan media and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hawatmeh Faction, which appears on OFAC’s Specially Designated Global Terrorist list.
The platform features Holocaust denial content hashtagged #holohoax, AI-generated songs with lyrics stating “never forget you’re ruled by Jews,” and antisemitic caricatures. ADL reported that, during enforcement testing, UpScrolled failed to act on 18 pieces of potentially violative content flagged by its experts. Google suspended UpScrolled from its app store in February 2026 before later reinstating it.
Michel Collon: Co-Founder, Investig’Action
Michel Collon, listed as a speaker at the conference, is a Belgian journalist and writer who co-founded the independent media outlet Investig’Action, and is described as an “analyst of war studies and disinformation.”
Collon was previously a member of the central committee of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB), a Marxist and Socialist political party in Belgium. He has produced content titled “Israel’s 10 Big Media Lies” and “The Lies of October 7th,” in which he discusses what he characterizes as “media lies propagated after” Hamas’s October 7 attack. Collon has described Trump as representing “a fascist image of the world in which law doesn’t count, only the interests of the United States.”
Jan Fermon: Bureau Member, International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Jan Fermon, a lawyer at the Brussels Bar and bureau member of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), will speak at the conference as a specialist in criminal, international humanitarian, and human rights law.
Strategic Outreach Across Professional Sectors
Tech for Palestine has assembled a speaker lineup spanning lawyers, journalists, policy workers, business professionals, engineers, and a Member of the European Parliament. By convening activists across legal, media, technology, political, and business spheres at the EU capital, the conference aims to establish what organizers describe as coordinated “leverage points” within the institutions that shape European policy toward Israel.
Critics are likely to view the inclusion of figures with histories of extremist rhetoric, controversial legal advocacy, or links to platforms criticized for hosting terrorist-aligned content as a sign that radical anti-Israel activism is moving deeper into mainstream European civil society spaces.
