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The Gatekeepers (photo: Sony Pictures)

Can ‘The Gatekeepers’ open the gates to the empire?

Is there growing realization within Israeli society that the social, political, moral, and military basis of the occupation is unsustainable? If so, perhaps ‘The Gatekeepers’ need not change people’s minds, so much as express them. A college professor once taught me that a decaying empire clenches onto power with a chokehold. Israel’s occupation of the…

By Dahlia Scheindlin February 24, 2013

Gov’t interrogations decision will prompt increased use of torture

A recent decision to prevent the recording of security interrogation means a return to the norms of the witch trials. The Israeli government recently made permanent a temporary order – in force for 11 years – that permits the police to avoid documenting security interrogations, Haaretz has reported (Hebrew). Regular criminal interrogations are taped; that will not…

By Yossi Gurvitz March 19, 2012

A protester calls for 'Adnan's release, Tel Aviv (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

What the Adnan affair tells us about the occupation

The Khader Adnan hunger strike affair showed the true face of all of the Israelis involved in the occupation, from its enablers in the courts to the Israeli mob. Khader Adnan became a Palestinian national hero two days ago, and rightly so. He brought the Netanyahu government, as well as the Israeli apparatus of darkness…

By Yossi Gurvitz February 23, 2012

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Price tag slogans on the wall of a mosque, Bani Naim, this week (Photo: B'Tselem)

Shin Bet impotent in face of settler “Price Tag” attacks

What Israel needs, in the battle against Jewish terrorism, is a Lester Freemon; What the ISA can supply is a weak-kneed Jack Bauer Israel was shocked last week, as violent settlers attacked the IDF directly, ransacking an army base, stoning a colonel and his deputy, and throwing Molotov cocktails at soldiers. The shock was reinforced…

By Yossi Gurvitz December 22, 2011

Israeli BDS activist detained upon entering the country

Matan Cohen was informed he is classified as ‘a suspect of hostile terrorist activity’; he was released after three hours Israeli activist Matan Cohen was detained by Israel’s internal security agency (ISA, or ‘Shabak’ in Hebrew) at Israel’s international airport yesterday. According to Cohen, his belongings were searched, and he was informed by a policeman…

By Noam Sheizaf December 21, 2010