Links to my pieces and interviews about the Israeli elections: Middle East Eye: Israel election: West must turn back on Netanyahu’s neofascist government Two prior posts I published: Nations Dither in Face of Israeli Fascism Netanyahu Wins Sixth Term as Prime Minister Radio/video interviews: The News with Paul DeRienzo MuslimTV Flashpoints (KPFA) Upfront (KPFA morning news) […]
Israel’s Criminalization of Human Rights Only a rogue state defiant of international norms brutalizes human rights NGOs seeking to hold it accountable
Last year, Israeli defense minister, Benny Gantz, decided that Palestinian human rights NGOs were an existential threat to the “Jewish state.” Specifically, six Palestinian groups were consulting with the International Criminal Court (ICC), as it determined whether to open an investigation into Israel’s war crimes. This apparently is a causus belli against the Israeli state […]
Israeli NGOs Call for Sanctions Against Israel During Gaza Attack Israeli human rights groups call for UN sanctions against Israel
Amidst the Israeli back-slapping over the “success” of its attack on Gaza, in which the IDF murdered 49 Palestinians, over half women and children, a groundbreaking protest by Israeli human rights NGOs passed almost unnoticed. The cause of human rights causes barely a ripple in Israeli society, which is deeply implicated in war crimes and […]
US Blacklists Israeli Cyber-Predator, NSO Group After Digital Privacy NGOs expose NSO's global assaults against human rights, US levies sanctions
The US Commerce Department announced that it was blacklisting the Israeli malware maker, NSO Group, after digital rights NGOs exposed the widespread use of its spyware to target journalists, lawyers and human rights activists in 50 countries. The designation found that the Israeli company had acted “contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests […]
