Israel
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Experimental vaccine death rate for Israel’s elderly 40 times higher than COVID-19 deaths: researchers
While in January a group of independent doctors concluded that experimental COVID-19 vaccines are “not safer” than the virus itself, a new analysis of vaccine-related death rates in Israel demonstrates that this may indeed be the case to dramatic levels. Continue reading
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Israel violates international law anew, again bombing Syria…to further indifference of Western media
Israeli missiles reportedly targeted Syria again on Monday. Usually carried out under the pretense of “targeting Iranian/Iranian-backed militias,” Israel’s strikes violate Syria’s sovereignty and breach international law. Continue reading
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More Cyber Crimes, Attributed To Russia, Are Shown To Have Come From Elsewhere
The operating center of Emotet was found in the Ukraine. Today the Ukrainian national police took control of it during a raid (video). The police found dozens of computers, some hundred hard drives, about 50 kilogram of gold bars (current price ~$60,000/kg) and large amounts of money in multiple currencies. Continue reading
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Occupation By COVID: Palestine As a Viral Export, 2020
As the year 2020 expires in an embattled welter of politicized suffering, I feel I need to address my fellow advocates for Palestinian rights, too many of whom seem not to notice – or actively deny – that, under cover of coronavirus hysteria, the unhealed wounds of Palestine are steadily infecting us all. Continue reading
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How Israel deployed an intelligence deception to justify killing scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Israel’s Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program – and legitimizing its assassinations of Iranian academics. Continue reading
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Pompeo’s Diabolical Diplomacy
The following interview devoted to Pompeo’s three day visit to Israel and Occupied Palestine conducted by Eshrat Mardi, was published in the Tehran Times Interview Nov. 28, 2020.] Continue reading
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Israel razes village, leaves 41 children homeless
While all eyes were on the United States elections this week, Israel carried out the largest demolition in occupied territory in years. Israeli forces arrived in the occupied West Bank community of Khirbet Humsa on Tuesday and demolished 76 structures. Continue reading
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From a Wealthy Socialite to an Israeli Govt Censor, Facebook’s New “Free Speech Court” Is Anything but Independent
Freedom of speech on the Internet is all but extinct, and on the eve of the 2020 US elections, a de facto “free speech court” is going to make sure it never comes back. On Facebook at least. Continue reading
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The Time of Troubles in Transcaucasia – Part 1
Three days into the renewed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh in the Transcaucasian region — also known as South Caucasus — it is becoming clear that the binary narrative dished out by western commentators of this being a Turkish-Russian clash of wills and strategies is either simply naive or purposively deceptive. The point is, Russia and Turkey… Continue reading
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The Lancet censors Gaza health letter after pro-Israel pressure
The letter – “Structural violence in the era of a new pandemic: the case of the Gaza Strip” – was duly published in the The Lancet online on 27 March. Just three days later, however, in a move unusual if not unprecedented for The Lancet, the letter was taken down without comment. Continue reading
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A Conversation at the Edge of the Human Future
Prefatory Note: I am posting below a long interview with Konrad Stachnio on wide-ranging questions, which stretched by knowledge past its breaking point, especially in assessing where the technological innovations on the horizons will lead us. It is one of 17 conversations published by Clarity Press under the title, Civilization in Overdrive: Conversations at the… Continue reading
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How a Senate Inquiry Revealed the Israeli Surveillance Industry’s Role in Orchestrating Russiagate
A Senate investigation reveals that a consortium of Israeli hacking and surveillance firms coordinated and facilitated meetings between Trump campaign operatives and Russia during the 2016 campaign, but they don’t really want to talk about it. Continue reading
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“This is How Armed Gangs Operate” Israel Admits its Troops Planted IEDs in a Palestinian Town
The IDF admitted that they put the explosives on the commonly used road, doing it to “create a deterrence,” because “riots have regularly occurred” in the area. Continue reading
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Sadistic Facebook shuts down Gaza health ministry page
26 August 2020 — The Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah Update After The Electronic Intifada reported on the removal of the Gaza health ministry’s page, Facebook restored it. Continue reading
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How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history
When the Palestinian actor Mohammed Bakri made a documentary about Jenin in 2002 – filming immediately after the Israeli army had completed rampaging through the West Bank city, leaving death and destruction in its wake – he chose an unusual narrator for the opening scene: a mute Palestinian youth. Continue reading
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How the Israel-UAE deal puts the bogus peace industry back in business
If there is one conclusion to draw from the agreement this week between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – with Israel temporarily “suspending” its threat to illegally annex parts of the West Bank, in return for “full normalisation” with the Gulf state – it is this: The peace industry is back in business. Continue reading
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Israel Rolls Out Dystopian Cyber Espionage Award for US-Backed Digital Saboteurs
The myriad cybersecurity, AI, and IoT startups emerging out of Israel’s state-funded organizations have extensive ties to American Fortune 100 companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many others. Continue reading
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The Judas Goat
Violent demonstrations have broken out in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Thousands marched, dozens were arrested, but more citizens continued to arrive and join the protests. The people of the only Jewish state are upset and unhappy. They expected a better outcome from their fight with corona. Continue reading
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Deadly Exchange: Israel trains US Police forces
26 June 2020 — The New Dark Age [In the light of spurious charges of anti-semitism levelled against Rebecca Long-Bailey and her subsequent firing from the Labour front bench by the leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer, after endorsing the actress’s Maxine Peake comments about US police learning violent tactics from Israeli secret… Continue reading