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	"author_name": "Smash the Match!",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/smash-the-match",
	"title": "Cancel the Aichi-Israel Matching Program!",
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	"description": "Since 2022, the Aichi Prefectural Government in Japan has partnered with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) &amp; Startup Nation Central (SNC) to promote collaborations between ‘Israeli’ startups and companies in Aichi. Despite 22 months of non-stop genocidal war crimes and calls by the local community to cancel this program, this collaboration is belligerently pushing forward to &quot;integrate Israeli cutting-edge technology&quot; into Japan&#x27;s manufacturing region. The Aichi government is normalizing the world’s first AI-powered genocide and tech-driven Apartheid and willfully turning its businesses and workers into genocide collaborators. We must refuse this &quot;innovation-washing” of the genocide of Palestine! As reported in the recent Albanese report on corporate complicity in the genocide: &quot;Israeli tech firms often grow out of military infrastructure and strategy.&quot; Israel notoriously innovates new weapons and surveillance to kill, maim, monitor, control, and experiment on Palestinians and export worldwide. This program is a deadly fusion of Israel’s immoral, genocidal tech industry with some of the most advanced manufacturers in the world, many of which have barely washed their hands of the bloody profits of Japan’s own imperialist wars. In FY2024 alone, 58 million yen (approximately US$370,000) in prefectural taxpayers’ money was invested in the Aichi-Israel Matching Program. However, Israel&#x27;s ongoing occupation and military actions against Palestine have been condemned by the international community, and these projects are fraught with serious ethical issues. Nevertheless, Aichi Prefecture is continuing this project in FY2025 despite the submission of 20,000 protest signatures from citizens’ groups calling for its cancellation. Please make your voices heard to Aichi Prefecture. Please join us in protesting the use of public funds for Israeli companies and urge the Aichi government to CANCEL THE AICHI-ISRAEL MATCHING PROGRAM!",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cancel-the-aichi-israel-matching-program-2"
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