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Promoting Israeli democracy, exposing secrets of the national security state

Blacklisted: Why I am No Longer Welcome in Israel

January 8, 2018 By Richard Silverstein 57 Comments

One of the most sinister of all Israeli government ministries is Strategic Affairs, run by a Likudist with raging political ambitions, Gilad Erdan.  The ministry operates like a quasi-intelligence outfit replete with scores of former Shin Bet and Mossad operatives playing shady, unspecified roles in rooting out 'anti-Israelism' wherever it may be found, and … [Read more...]

2017 Israeli Democracy Poll

December 14, 2017 By Richard Silverstein 4 Comments

2017 Israeli Democracy Poll

I've reported in past years on the Israel Democracy Institute's annual poll on the health (or illness) of Israeli democracy.  The results are usually quite dispiriting if you ever believed in such a concept.  But they are always instructive. Given the IDI is a liberal Zionist organization intent on maintaining what little remains of Israeli democracy, many … [Read more...]

Israeli Security Forces Arrest Israeli-Palestinian Islamist Leaders

April 3, 2017 By Richard Silverstein Leave a Comment

פרשה ביטחונית חדשה: השב"כ עצר תחת צא"פ 5 חברים בולטים בתנועה האיסלאמית Ten days ago Israeli police broke into the homes of five current and former leaders of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, trashed their homes searching for God knows what, and arrested them.  It "disappeared" them for all that time, interrogating them without access to counsel. … [Read more...]

The Persecution and Assassination of Omar Barghouti by the Inmates of the Asylum of Israel Under the Direction of the Marquis de Millikovsky

March 21, 2017 By Richard Silverstein 17 Comments

What a clever way to destroy the career of a Palestinian activist.  He founded an international movement, BDS, so arresting him for espionage or on a political pretext would bring the wrath of the world down upon Israel.  So you look for an alternative and rip a page from the early FBI, which couldn't topple Al Capone by conventional means.  So it chose an … [Read more...]

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