Anat Kamm, the Israeli whistleblower who leaked top-secret IDF documents which exposed targeted killings of unarmed Palestinian suspects and other potential war crimes, was released from prison after serving two years of an original four and a half-year sentence (reduced by one year after Supreme Court review). I was the first journalist to expose her … [Read more...]
IDF Chief Threatened Journalist With Espionage for Exposing Rampant Military Corruption
Before you begin reading this major scoop, I want to tell you where you won't find this type of reporting. Not in the New York Times, nor Haaretz, or even The Nation. Hell, you won't even read it at Electronic Intifada. Only here. That's where you'll find this reporting. So I ask you to think about supporting my work. Just as spring turns young men's … [Read more...]
Anat Kamm Sues Uri Blau and Haaretz
In a most embarrassing climax to the Anat Kamm-Uri Blau saga, Kamm announced she would sue Uri Blau and Haaretz for $600,000 for revealing her as the source for the reporter's articles about IDF assassinations. While I sympathize with her plight, and believe Haaretz's then-editors bear some responsibility for her exposure, her position (and I should make … [Read more...]
Hanoch Levin’s “How to Spot an Arab Terrorist”
A friend from Israel sent this quotation from Israel's most brilliant political satirist, Hanoch Levin. It was quoted in Uri Blau's latest Haaretz article about a poor Palestinian family whose land is cut off from its native village by the Separation Wall. This fact has also caused the family to lose their water connection to the village. The Israeli … [Read more...]