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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
When Israel’s Shin Bet chief embraces fake news
Ronen Bar, the head of Israel's domestic intelligence, spread disinformation in order to portray Palestinians as terrorists and Jews as innocents.
By
Meron Rapoport
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Oren Ziv
July 2, 2023
Why Israeli police aren’t the solution to Palestinian crime
The fixation on policing has funneled us into a debate that avoids the real roots of the crisis of gun violence among Palestinian citizens of Israel.
By
Amjad Iraqi
June 18, 2023
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In its war on Palestinian students, Israel deems book fairs and falafel sales a crime
From campus raids to dubious indictments, Israel's persecution of Palestinian students aims to suppress political activism in West Bank universities.
By
Anat Matar
February 3, 2021
Why Shin Bet torturers don’t have to worry about punishment
By clearing the Shin Bet for the brutal interrogation of a Palestinian detainee, the attorney general played his part in masking Israel's approval of torture.
By
Yael Stein
February 2, 2021
Dozens protest administrative detention, torture outside Shin Bet offices
On Human Rights Day, Israeli activists hold a first-of-its-kind protest outside the Shin Bet's offices, demanding an end to the agency's worst practices.
By
Oren Ziv
December 10, 2020
Israel won’t blink an eye if a hunger striker dies
The end of Maher al-Akhras' 103-day hunger strike is cause for celebration. But the Shin Bet is still doubling down on, rather than moving away from, administrative detention.
By
Orly Noy
November 9, 2020
To fight its ‘war’ on COVID-19, Israel is turning citizens into enemies
To live with the pandemic, Israel will have to stop transforming civilian issues into matters of national security, says Israeli sociologist Yagil Levy.
By
Edo Konrad
October 22, 2020
For Israeli press, surveillance is only a problem when targeting Jewish citizens
Journalists were quick to condemn monitoring of COVID-19 patients in Israel but remain silent when that same technology is sold to repressive regimes.
By
Eitay Mack
and
The Seventh Eye
June 19, 2020
How Palestinian citizens are putting Israel’s coronavirus powers in check
From Shin Bet surveillance to women's employment, one Palestinian NGO has been at the forefront of defending civil rights for all during the pandemic.
By
Meron Rapoport
May 12, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic will end. Israel’s extreme surveillance will not
Israel is preventing oversight of its virus policy while partnering with high-tech companies to monitor citizens. Critics worry these methods are here to stay.
By
Robert Swift
March 19, 2020
A coronavirus coup in broad daylight
As democracy goes into quarantine and surveillance of citizens becomes the norm, Israel is heading straight for an autocracy run by Benjamin Netanyahu.
By
Michael Sfard
March 19, 2020
‘The occupation broke her once. Now Israel is trying to break her again.’
Israeli soldiers arrested Birzeit student Mais Abu Ghosh and reportedly tortured her for weeks over political activities on her university campus.
By
Jaclynn Ashly
February 7, 2020
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