israeli war crimes

Israel’s Hannibal Directive: Israeli Attack Will Likely Result in 120 Hostage Deaths Defense minister calls Gazans "human animals"

Richard Silverstein October 9, 2023

It just won’t stop. We’re looking at about 1,000 Israelis killed, and over 650 Palestinians killed in...

BREAKING: Israeli Police Murderer Identified Elior Yakov murdered an autistic Palestinian, Eyad Al Halak, in East Jerusalem and got away with it

Richard Silverstein July 11, 2023

חשיפה: שוטר משמר הגבול שרצח את איאד אל-חלאק, פלסטיני אוטיסט, הוא אליאור יעקב In May 2020, an...

IDF Plans for Imminent Attack on Iran to Include Civilian Targets Official IDF study urges attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, government buildings, communications and industrial targets

Richard Silverstein May 28, 2023

מאמר שנמחק מאתר צה”ל ממליץ לתקוף מטרות אזרחיות בטהראן In October 2022, a senior IDF officer published...

Israeli NGOs Call for Sanctions Against Israel During Gaza Attack Israeli human rights groups call for UN sanctions against Israel

Richard Silverstein August 14, 2022

Amidst the Israeli back-slapping over the “success” of its attack on Gaza, in which the IDF murdered...

Almog, Once Sought for War Crimes, Named Jewish Agency Head IDF Gen. Doron Almog escaped arrest in UK after government authorities warned him of arrest warrant

Richard Silverstein June 17, 2022

After a year of stalemate among Israeli political parties seeking to dole out a plum patronage job...

Tantura and the Israeli “Conspiracy of Silence” An Israeli Nakba massacre in 1948 aroused a conspiracy of silence which destroyed the career of an Israeli graduate student

Richard Silverstein January 21, 2022

Before 1948, Tantura was a Palestinian coastal fishing village of 1,500 residents located just north of the...

BREAKING: IDF Commander Who Ordered Rape of Palestinian Identified

Richard Silverstein April 23, 2021

NOTE: I just published a new Middle East Eye piece about the near-disaster averted when a Syrian...

ICC Approves Pursuing War Crimes Case Against Israeli, Palestinian leaders

Richard Silverstein February 6, 2021

In a groundbreaking ruling, a three-judge ICC court has found that the chief prosecutor may commence a...

Iranian Authorities: Israeli Assassination Carried Out Remotely by Satellite

Richard Silverstein November 30, 2020

Iranian media reports say authorities have recovered the murder weapon used to assassinate Iran’s leading nuclear scientist,...

BREAKING: Israeli Media Exposes Identity of IDF Commander Whose Unit Kidnaps, Assassinates Palestinians

Richard Silverstein May 27, 2018

חשיפה: מפקד יחידת המסתערבים “דובדבן” הוא סא”ל עמי ביטון Last week, the hated IDF unit, Duvdevan, performed...

Israel: the Garrison State elor azarya celebration

Israel: the Garrison State

Richard Silverstein May 24, 2018

NOTE: If you frequent progressive websites like Think Progress, the Nation or others, you may’ve read that...

Shurat HaDin Files ICC Claim: Hamas Responsible for IDF Murders in Gaza

Richard Silverstein April 26, 2018

Usually, after writing a post I won’t come back to the same story unless it’s quite compelling...