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Israel developing ChatGPT-like tool that weaponizes surveillance of Palestinians
The Israeli army is building an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, which could accelerate the process of incrimination and arrest, a joint investigation reveals.
By
Yuval Abraham
March 6, 2025
Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed
Top Israeli government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the ICC and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe, a joint investigation reveals.
By
Yuval Abraham
and
Meron Rapoport
May 28, 2024
Israel’s ‘thought police’ law ramps up dangers for Palestinian social media users
Rights advocates warn the draconian law will enable unprecedented surveillance, raising Palestinian fears of arrest for their online activity.
By
Sophia Goodfriend
November 24, 2023
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With Morocco normalization, Israel revives a dangerous Africa policy
Unable to reconcile its public diplomacy with colonialism at home, Israel has returned to courting key African partners through military-intelligence ties.
By
Alex White
August 17, 2023
Teachers or terrorists? Far-right MKs want the Shin Bet to police schools
A bill authorizing Israel's security service to hire and fire teachers, a policy long carried out in Arab schools, is so extreme that even the Shin Bet opposes it.
By
Gil Gertel
July 26, 2023
Israel masked its arms deals to repressive regimes for decades. Here’s how
For most of its existence, the state has continued selling weapons and other military wares to rogue governments, even after claiming to have stopped.
By
Eitay Mack
June 15, 2023
How AI is intensifying Israel’s bombardments of Gaza
With algorithms making warfare easier to sustain, automated weapons have turned Israeli assaults on besieged Palestinians into an annual event.
By
Sophia Goodfriend
June 6, 2023
‘The system learns to recognize you’: Amnesty calls out automated apartheid
Following major report, Amnesty adviser Matt Mahmoudi explains how facial recognition technology is bolstering Israel's control over Palestinians.
By
Ameera Kawash
May 2, 2023
Why Pahlavi’s Israel visit betrays both Iranians and Palestinians
Many Iranians have been silent as the opposition leader has essentially backed an apartheid state conducting the same abuses he claims to be fighting.
By
Sarah Ariyan Sakha
April 27, 2023
Israeli high tech’s ‘political awakening’ evades a violent truth
High-tech workers say the new government's plans could harm their sector. But history shows the industry actually thrives off of volatility and violence.
By
Sophia Goodfriend
February 9, 2023
Drones terrorized Gaza for years. Now they’ll do the same in the West Bank
Israel's army is promoting drone warfare as a less bloody means of governing the West Bank. Palestinians in Gaza know that won't be the case.
By
Sophia Goodfriend
October 13, 2022
At Israel’s Cyber Week, generals and CEOs sell warfare as a techno-utopia
The human cost of surveillance and weaponry is hard to remember when the business of militarism is dressed up like a Silicon Valley work retreat.
By
Sophia Goodfriend
August 15, 2022
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
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