The Shin Bet continues its deliberate campaign to criminalize humanitarian aid work in Palestine by arresting yet another aid worker on trumped-up terror charges. The new case involves a Spaniard, Juana Ruiz, working for the Spanish NGO, Health Work Committees, in the West Bank. She was arrested in Bethlehem and has been held incommunicado for […]
Israeli Police State Has Backdoor ISP Access to Every Citizen and Website, Cellebrite Claims to Break Signal App Encryption
Haaretz published two astonishing reports over the past few days about Israeli cyber-security. In the first. it broke a story noting that Israeli police have for years required all internet service providers (ISPs) to offer a backdoor to access the accounts of every Israeli citizen. In addition, police have similar access to every website and […]
Israeli Commando Operation Exploited Gaza Humanitarian Relief NGO as Front
דיווח: שלטונות ישראל סירבו לתת אישור בנייה לסגן מפקד סיירת מטכ”ל, סא”ל מחמוד ח’יר א-דין, לפני שנהרג בפעולה הכושלת בעזה NOTE: This post is a comprehensive one which I’d hoped to publish either at The Nation or Jacobin Magazine. Neither one accepted it for publication, so their loss is your gain. You get the benefit […]
Father of Breaking the Silence’s Dean Issacharoff is Israel’s Ambassador to Germany
Over the past month, a strange controversy has been brewing in Israel. Breaking the Silence’s press spokesperson, Dean Issacharoff, has publicly challenged the State prosecutor to charge him with abuse of a Palestinian prisoner while he served in the IDF in Hebron. The far-right government already has BtS and other domestic human rights NGOs in […]
