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How Israel is trying to enforce gag orders beyond its borders

At Israel’s request, Twitter is blocking Israelis from viewing certain tweets published overseas. Similar take-down notices have been sent to other international online platforms, the Justice Ministry confirms. Israeli authorities are taking steps to block their own citizens from reading materials published online in other countries, including the United States. The Israeli State Attorney’s Office Cyber Division…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man August 9, 2016

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I still don’t buy the hype about Iran

Maybe I’m in denial. Or maybe I’m naive. Even though I trust and respect Richard Silverstein, I don’t buy his latest leak: Bibi’s Secret War Plan. It’s the Israeli government’s newest psychological operation. Silverstein writes: In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat August 15, 2012

Who would want us to think Iran crashed a drone in Israel?

Richard Silverstein reports on his blog that the aircraft that crashed in central Israel today was a “booby-trapped” foreign drone flown into the country, and that it crashed not in a field, but in a top-secret missile base (which I am not naming it here because I’m not entirely sure about my position vis-a-vis Israel’s…

By Dimi Reider January 29, 2012

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Joining Larry Derfner on “Israel Reconsidered”

As of this week, I’ll be joining Jerusalem Post columnist Larry Derfner on the debating blog “Israel Reconsidered“. Larry has opened the blog as a discussion platform between himself and Richard Silverstein, but Richard has recently left the project; he explains his reasons here. When Larry contacted me last week and asked if I knew…

By Dimi Reider June 22, 2011

Diaspora Museum to honor site responsible for Obama-hating clips

Caroline Glick’s “Latma” site will receive special honor from the museum on its yearly board of governors meeting next week The Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv is about to honor this week the people behind the rightwing satire and media site Latma for the “we con the world” video they produced in the aftermath of…

By Noam Sheizaf September 23, 2010

Israeli tabloids urge NIF to ditch Palestinian and leftist NGOs

Israeli Tabloids Maariv and Yisrael Hayom, which led the attack on the New Israel Fund in recent months, celebrated yesterday what they believe is a change in the NIF policy regarding its support for leftwing organizations. A page 4 story in Maariv, written by the paper’s reporter in New York, Tzah Yoked, has declared that…

By Noam Sheizaf September 20, 2010

Netanyahu on leaked video: Clinton administration was “extremely pro-Palestinian”, I stopped Oslo

Netanyahu's visit to a settler family in 2001

By Noam Sheizaf July 15, 2010