In a most embarrassing climax to the Anat Kamm-Uri Blau saga, Kamm announced she would sue Uri Blau and Haaretz for $600,000 for revealing her as the source for the reporter’s articles about IDF assassinations. While I sympathize with her plight, and believe Haaretz’s then-editors bear some responsibility for her exposure, her position (and I […]
IDF Police Interrogate, Gag Blogger, Demand Whistleblower’s Identity
Before beginning this post, I want to note that there is a great deal we don’t know about this case thanks to the Israeli police’s pressure on the victim to maintain silence. But here, I’ll say what I know and then speculate about what I don’t know when I think there’s enough independent evidence to […]
IDF Chief Censor Disses Tikun Olam
At last month’s Digit2012 conference on Israeli digital journalism, the IDF chief censor participated in a panel about conflict between censorship on the one hand and the freewheeling social media networks and freedom of the press on the other. I’m of two minds about the entire discussion. On the one hand, my name and record […]
We Need to Talk About Anat Kamm
Sol Salbe has translated this op-ed by Israeli novelist, lawyer and poet, Alon Hilu: We need to talk about Anat Kamm. We need to do so mainly in view of last week’s announcement that Uri Blau, the journalist to whom she handed over classified documents, will not be sent to prison but will undertake community […]
