Many of us know that Israel is a corrupt society and that the corruption stems in large part from the gross, illegal, and interminable seven-decade oppression of the Palestinian minority both inside and outside Israel. There are of course many complicated reasons and analyses worth exploring regarding this subject (we’ll focus on one aspect in […]
Twitter Refuses to Bow to Israeli Censorship
טוויטר גילתה אומץ-לב, וסירבה לדרישה לצנזר את ציוציי על וולטר סוריאנו והניצחון המשפטי שלי עליו בישראל I received two emails from Twitter today notifying me that an unnamed “third-party” demanded that it censor a total of 18 of my tweets. The thread common to them all is that all the tweets promoted a blog post […]
The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State
I delivered this paper last month at the UC Berkeley conference, Virtual Internment: Islamophobia, Surveillance and Unequal Citizenship. It was sponsored by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project directed by Hatem Bazian. The video of my talk is posted here. Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus specializes in developing cyber-technology, surveillance methods, disinformation, and outright intimidation in order […]
Facebook Suspension for Criticizing Israeli Rabbinic Racism
Yesterday, I published a post consisting of translations of verbatim video recordings of two senior Israeli settler rabbis. They justified the Holocaust, said “Hitler was right,” advocated that Palestinians become servants of Israelis, and claimed Jewish genetic superiority over other “races.” After publishing I posted links to my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Today, I […]