The Israeli army is developing an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, which could accelerate the process of incrimination and arrest, a joint investigation reveals.
Israel denies carrying out the 1948 Nakba of Palestinians, even as it calls for carrying out a second Nakba today.
Israel’s unfolding genocide in Gaza also has dire consequences for ecosystems and violates the right of people to live in a healthy environment.
Israel’s ban on UNRWA would leave hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees without education, jobs, or essential services. But the real reason it is going after the UN agency lies in Israel’s political and territorial ambitions.
Former private soldiers say this new way of war — unofficial boots on the ground through private military contractors — could go sideways, while giving governments political cover
Haartez reported earlier on an unauthorized raid in Balata refugee camp, in which the IDF shot dead an 80-year-old woman on the street and a barber in his kitchen. Now it turns out that another man was shot that day and left bleeding until Israeli troops arrived – and shot him again
Journalists on major papers are blocked from truth-telling about Palestine and the apartheid practices of Israel. Such censorship in top American newspapers is troubling – and not unprecedented.
Friedman’s fear is that the debate is quietly shifting outside this framework – towards the recognition that Israel is a belligerent apartheid regime and the conclusion that one democratic state for Palestinians and Jews is now the only viable solution.
H.A. Hellyer of the Carnegie Foundation calls on the American government to stop acting like Israel isn’t practicing full-blown apartheid, and start focusing on Palestinian human rights. Our leaders need to get aligned with their constituents, who are more willing than ever to be critical of Israel.
Just a few months after Israeli human rights org B’Tselem released its bombshell report calling Israel an apartheid state, another major group reaches the same conclusion – adding “persecution” to the charge of apartheid. A 200+ page report details Human Rights Watch’s findings.