Like Donald Trump, Israel’s premier cyber-spying firm has had a rough couple of weeks. Things began promisingly enough when an over-indulgent Israeli district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by Amnesty International on behalf one of its staff members whose phone was hacked by a Gulf state. The NGO correctly called the ruling “disgraceful:” “Today’s disgraceful […]
Mexican Government Cancels NSO Group Cyber-Surveillance Contract, Launches Corruption Investigation
NOTE: I did an interview for The Real News Network (above) about my post on Israel’s attempt to sabotage the 2016 election. I also published a piece for Middle East Eye recently on the Israeli Supreme Court’s ratification of a new governing coalition just as corrupt and dysfunctional as the previous one. I hope you’ll […]
Israel’s Secret Police Maintain Massive Database on All Citizens with Little Oversight
DONATE: While the world’s attention is rightly focused on the Coronavirus pandemic, it has lost sight of many other critical global developments. I have in fact noticed that the site traffic to this blog has declined considerably during this period. I am concerned that the world is ignoring crucial issues, even ones that have a […]
Israeli Secret Police Remove Gag Order, Claim Palestinian Mother, Humanitarian Aid Worker is Terror Financier
In my many years of reporting on and exposing the depredation of the Israeli Secret Police aka Shabak or Shin Bet, I’ve only rarely come across an arrest as ludicrous as the one they made last month. I reported yesterday that they arrested a Palestinian humanitarian aid worker, Aya Khatib. As of yesterday, she had […]
