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Microsoft Divests Ownership Stake in Israeli Facial Recognition Software Firm, Anyvision, After Human Rights Controversy

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Microsoft Divests Ownership Stake in Israeli Facial Recognition Software Firm, Anyvision, After Human Rights Controversy

Richard Silverstein March 29, 2020 2

Yesterday, Microsoft’s venture capital division, M12, announced that it was divesting its $31-million ownership stake in the...

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Israel’s Secret Police Maintain Massive Database on All Citizens with Little Oversight

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Israel’s Secret Police Maintain Massive Database on All Citizens with Little Oversight

Richard Silverstein March 28, 2020 11

DONATE: While the world’s attention is rightly focused on the Coronavirus pandemic, it has lost sight of...

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Gantz to Join Israeli Unity Government, Blue and White Opposition Disintegrates

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Gantz to Join Israeli Unity Government, Blue and White Opposition Disintegrates

Richard Silverstein March 26, 2020 3

Former Blue and White coalition leader, Benny Gantz, has single-handedly destroyed the very alliance he founded by...

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Knesset Speaker Resigns, Provoking Major Political Crisis

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Knesset Speaker Resigns, Provoking Major Political Crisis

Richard Silverstein March 25, 2020 5

Today, Israel’s Knesset Speaker, Likud veteran, Yuli Edelstein, resigned rather than follow a Supreme Court directive to...

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Israel’s Shin Bet Transforms Mission from Hunting Terrorists to Hunting the Sick

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Israel’s Shin Bet Transforms Mission from Hunting Terrorists to Hunting the Sick

Richard Silverstein March 24, 2020 6

One of the many anti-democratic ploys unleashed by the Likud in the last dying days of its...

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Israeli Supreme Court Orders Likud Speaker to Reconvene Knesset, Relinquish Power to Blue and White

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Israeli Supreme Court Orders Likud Speaker to Reconvene Knesset, Relinquish Power to Blue and White

Richard Silverstein March 23, 2020 6

NOTE: Middle East Eye published my latest piece on the Likud’s soft coup preventing the Opposition Blue...

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Gantz Negotiating to Form Unity Government with Likud

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Gantz Negotiating to Form Unity Government with Likud

Richard Silverstein March 22, 2020 2

Benny Gantz, leader of Israel’s Blue and White Opposition appears to have abandoned his plan to form...

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Likud’s Soft Coup Under Pretext of Pandemic

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Likud’s Soft Coup Under Pretext of Pandemic

Richard Silverstein March 18, 2020 2

The Likud lost the most recent election, yet they continue to cling to power exploiting every dirty...

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Gantz, Pledging to Form “Government of All Israel’s Citizens,” Tapped to Form Ruling Coalition

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Gantz, Pledging to Form “Government of All Israel’s Citizens,” Tapped to Form Ruling Coalition

Richard Silverstein March 16, 2020 4

Israeli ex-General and leader of the Blue and White Coalition, Benny Gantz, has performed something of a...

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Israeli Secret Police Remove Gag Order, Claim Palestinian Mother, Humanitarian Aid Worker is Terror Financier

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Israeli Secret Police Remove Gag Order, Claim Palestinian Mother, Humanitarian Aid Worker is Terror Financier

Richard Silverstein March 15, 2020 8

In my many years of reporting on and exposing the depredation of the Israeli Secret Police aka...

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Israeli Secret Police Arrest Israeli Palestinian Activist Under Gag Order

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Israeli Secret Police Arrest Israeli Palestinian Activist Under Gag Order

Richard Silverstein March 13, 2020 13

המשטרה החשאית עצרה פעילה איסלמית ,איה חטיב, בחשד שהיא מימנה טרור פלסטיני. השב”כ הטיל צו איסור פרסום...

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Elections: Where Hope Goes to DIe

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Elections: Where Hope Goes to DIe

Richard Silverstein March 10, 2020 22

Developments today in Israeli and U.S. elections combined to make me absolutely miserable.  On top of that...

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