When I first started writing about the Anat Kamm case it felt like a cross between Kafka’s The Trial, a carnival Hall of Mirrors, and Chelm. Now comes a story possibly even stranger. Earlier today, Yediot Achronot published a story about a Mr. X imprisoned in an Israeli jail. The man was in solitary confinement. […]
Denial of Service Attack
On Sunday, many of you noticed that you could not publish comments at this site. Others of you may’ve noticed you could not access the main page. I noticed yesterday night that instead of the normal site traffic I receive for a Sunday, that I’d received 10 times that amount and over three times the […]
Cozy Relationship Between Israeli Judiciary, Military Facilitates Gag Orders, Other Free Speech Violations
There is much that is instructive in the Anat Kam case about the deficiencies in Israeli democracy. I’ve discussed many of them in earlier posts. Tonight, I want to talk about the overly cozy relationship between the judiciary and the military-intelligence apparatus. Let’s say you’re the Shin Bet or the Attorney General and you’ve got […]
Yediot Achronot: ‘Poor Pitiful Me, I Want to Tell You About Anat Kamm, But the Bad Censor Man Won’t Let Me’
I’m growing very tired of the Israeli media’s whiny self-pity in writing about why they can’t write about the Anat Kam story. Take a story in today’s Yediot Achronot: For Foreigners Only What Does the Shabak Want You Not to Know? Foreign media outlets publish about an incident whose details you can also discover on […]
