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Hagai Amir: I don’t regret Rabin’s murder, because you can’t regret a mitzvah
Hagai Amir, accomplice in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was released in May after serving 16 years in jail. He discusses with +972 Magazine his pride in the assassin, his brother Yigal; his contacts with Hamas representatives in prison; his views on a binational state; and more. My connection with Hagai Amir began in…
By
Ami Kaufman
September 1, 2012
King Bibi, the last King of Zion
King Bibi, as TIME Magazine recently crowned him, the fiercest Zionist to ever lead Israel, will go down in history as the one who brought Zionism to its knees TIME Magazine published a lengthy item on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, with a close-up photo of him on the cover so huge it…
By
Ami Kaufman
June 17, 2012
If Netanyahu wants to investigate Iran leaks, he better start with his own office
A comment on my last post refers to the much-quoted Al Jarida story about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to order an internal security service investigation that would trace the source whose leaks to the Yedioth Ahronoth daily started the public debate regarding a possible attack on Iran. How a Kuwait-based paper got a world…
By
Noam Sheizaf
November 5, 2011
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TIMELINE: The Anat Kamm affair
In the spring of 2010, it emerged that a young journalist had been under house arrest for several months for leaking documents that led to the publication of an investigative report on IDF misconduct. Thanks to an unprecedented media blackout, the case made headlines around the world. Anat Kamm, who was originally sentenced to four-and-a-half…
By
Noa Yachot
October 28, 2011
IDF on Bil’in: spins, half-truths and lies
Jawahar Abu-Rahmah of Bil’in was rushed to Ramallah hospital last Friday during an unarmed protest against the fence in her village. She passed away Saturday morning. Her death gained relatively wide publicity, and the IDF scramble to pushing its own version of the story, first claiming that Abu-Rahamh took part in a violent riot, and…
By
Noam Sheizaf
January 4, 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
Israel’s internal security service going after leftwing protesters
Another activist received an invitation to a meeting with Shabak. After refusing, he was warned that it would be in his best interest to come Yesterday, I reported here on two members of the leftwing group Anarchists against the Wall that were invited to a meetings with a Shabak (Israel’s internal security agency) operator calling…
By
Noam Sheizaf
December 14, 2010
Internal Security violated agreement with Haaretz to get to Anat Kamm
The prosecution in Anat Kamm’s trail admitted today that the Shabak (Israel’s internal security service, formally known as Shin Beit), ignored the agreement it signed with Haaretz reporter Uri Blau in order to expose the source for a story he published. In a research article published two years ago in Haaretz, Blau reveled that senior…
By
Noam Sheizaf
July 22, 2010
In a Small Jailcell, Lonely and Freezing
The following is my English translation of Yossi Gurvitz’s latest post about the Shabak, the interrogation process, and the dying Israeli legal system. Haaretz has just published an article about the trials cited by Yossi here. (Joseph Dana) Small Jail Cell, Lonely, and Freezing I asked myself a couple of days ago about the working methods of the…
By
Yossi Gurvitz
July 21, 2010
Israeli BDS activist’s account of “a friendly talk” with the Shin Beit
Former Israeli air force pilot and conscientious objector Yonatan Shapira was summoned today to “a friendly talk” with the Shabak (formally known as “Shin Beit”, Israel’s internal security agency). This is Yonatan’s account of the event, as posted on Facebook: Yesterday Rona from the Shabak called me and asked me to come talk to meet…
By
Noam Sheizaf
July 19, 2010
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