The Israeli Palestinian legal-human rights NGO, Adalah, brought a case against the Israeli police for introducing new secret guidelines about opening fire on Palestinian protesters. Adalah brought a case before a regional court which ordered the police to reveal portions of the guidelines as a matter of public importance. The police appealed the ruling, … [Read more...]
Mossad’s Yossi Cohen Gets Away with Murder…Again
You've probably read the posts I wrote earlier this week about the Mossad assassination of Mohammed al-Zoari in Tunisia. Israeli politicians and journalists have strongly hinted at Mossad's culpability. Tunisian authorities have been more forceful in blaming an Israeli assassination squad for the murder. This is at least the second such murder under Yossi … [Read more...]
Israeli Knesset Bars Reporting Names of Soldiers Accused of Killing of Palestinians
The Israeli Knesset has passed a new law which will punish anyone who reveals the identity of any police or Border Police officer or IDF soldier accused of committing crimes against Palestinians. Named Azarya's Law and championed by a Labor Party MK, it condones the crimes of an IDF soldier who murdered a wounded Palestinian in cold blood and currently … [Read more...]
What Israel Has to Teach Us
The post title is, of course, meant ironically. What does Israel have to teach the U.S., except how to be a better national security state? How to sacrifice rights for security, liberty for surveillance, privacy for intrusion? How to replace the striving for peace for a state of perpetual war. We've learned so much from Israel on this score. In the … [Read more...]