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The watchful eye of Israel’s surveillance empire
Israeli cyber companies are at the forefront of a booming facial recognition market, threatening basic freedoms in Israel-Palestine and beyond.
By
Jonathan Hempel
May 3, 2022
Israel’s volunteer thought-police
Right-wing activists have been infiltrating human rights and anti-occupation organizations. The spies did do serious damage, but to a much bigger target than they intended: Israeli society. Two weeks ago I wrote about a right-wing group trying to recruit people to a “top secret” mission: spying on left-wing organizations in Israel. The outfit was largely a…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
January 15, 2016
The real reason Jewish-American spy Jonathan Pollard is back in the news
Pollard is scheduled to be released in November. The issue for Israel is whether the U.S. will allow the Jewish American to move to Israel, where Washington fears he would be given a hero’s welcome. The 30-year saga of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard is once again gaining serious attention in the Israeli, American and international news…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 25, 2015
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Against spy revelations, Israel doth protest too much
The nation’s establishment has called the whistle-blowers of Unit 8200 every bad name, but it has no answer to their charge that information deliberately gathered on innocent Palestinians is used to blackmail them into collaborating. The 43 refuseniks in Unit 8200, Israel’s legendary high-tech snoops, are this week’s Gideon Levys, this week’s Haneen Zoabis –…
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Larry Derfner
September 16, 2014
+972’s Person of the Year: Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden’s disclosures exposing the extent of NSA surveillance taught us more about our relationship with government than any other exposure or event. In fact, we learned about relationships we didn’t even know we had. But the Snowden leaks didn’t just change what we know; they sparked a discussion that could very well change the…
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NSA spying program: Obama’s fall from grace
The fear and paranoia into which PRISM was born, if continued, will eventually lead the United States to isolation, leaving it stranded within the limits of its power. By Hakim Bishara If the NSA were to hack into my email account, as they evidently do, they would find the following message I sent to a…
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