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Israeli Police State Has Backdoor ISP Access to Every Citizen and Website, Cellebrite Claims to Break Signal App Encryption

December 14, 2020 by Richard Silverstein 15 Comments

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

December 7, 2018 by Richard Silverstein 3 Comments

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

November 25, 2017 by Richard Silverstein 3 Comments

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 […]

BREAKING: Shabak Drops Case Against Gaza UN Security Official and Releases Him

August 9, 2017 by Richard Silverstein Leave a Comment

Israel’s Shabak domestic spy agency arrested a UN official based in Gaza three weeks ago, who was responsible for providing security there for UN-affiliated institutions.  Hamdan Temraz was on his way to meet with his UN colleagues in Jerusalem, when he was arrested by the Shabak at the Erez border crossing.  I reported this story when […]

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