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50 things that have been around for less time than the occupation
How much has the world changed since Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory began in 1967? The occupation, as we are all too well aware, is about to turn 50. It’s difficult to grasp just how significant a period of time five decades is — especially when we’re trying to imagine the durability of a state of…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
May 21, 2017
How Israel is trying to enforce gag orders beyond its borders
At Israel’s request, Twitter is blocking Israelis from viewing certain tweets published overseas. Similar take-down notices have been sent to other international online platforms, the Justice Ministry confirms. Israeli authorities are taking steps to block their own citizens from reading materials published online in other countries, including the United States. The Israeli State Attorney’s Office Cyber Division…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
August 9, 2016
Exclusive: The IDF is monitoring what Israeli citizens say on Facebook
Did you post the word ‘demonstration’ in Hebrew on Facebook? The army is keeping an eye on you. Did you use the word ‘Al Quds’ in Arabic in a WhatsApp conversation? You may have just been flagged as a terrorist. How the IDF contracts private tech companies to monitor Israeli citizens on social media. By…
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July 15, 2015
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A professor’s freedom to tweet: The Steven Salaita affair
A Palestinian American professor’s withering tweets against Israel’s offensive in Gaza cost him his job. If his freedom of speech isn’t protected, it could be me or you next. By Shachar Pinsker In 2013, the American-Indian Studies Program at The University of Illinois decided to hire Steven Salaita, who then held a tenured position at…
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October 7, 2014
Netanyahu tweets Foley execution shot to score points against Hamas
Bibi went there. [This post has been updated.] The official account of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on a roll today comparing apples and oranges ISIS and Hamas. First there was a Venn diagram comparing some of the key similarities between the two groups (although inexplicably skipping some of the equally relevant ones, such as that both…
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Dimi Reider
August 21, 2014
PHOTOS: Tear gas not the only thing connecting Ferguson and Palestine
The tear gas used by the police in Ferguson, Missouri and the Israeli military in the West Bank is only one of several factors that connects the violence against unarmed youth in both communities. Text and photos by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org The New York Times’ Robert Mackey recently tweeted a photo of the tear gas…
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Activestills
August 18, 2014
The battle over numbers: Gaza conflict is about quality not quantity
While it may be tempting for those of us who are against Operation Protective Edge to stress the lopsided casualty statistics as a way to promote our criticism, this war should not focus on the numbers. One of the most painfully obvious aspects of the current warfare between Israel and Gaza (and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
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Mairav Zonszein
August 11, 2014
Propaganda wars: Searching for a narrative in Operation Protective Edge
No amount of Tweeting, tagging, posting or liking will save Gazans from an Israeli ground invasion. So why bother? By Corey Sherman Recent political upheavals in the Middle East tend to have a social media subplot, whether it’s how savvy youth use it to subvert harsh authority, or how states manipulate access to it so…
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July 17, 2014
Israeli police lock up Haifa activist for Facebook statuses
Police detained and held Razi Nabulsi, a young Palestinian from Haifa for a week for statuses he posted to Facebook and Twitter, claiming they constituted incitement. The catch? Even though the statuses were posted publicly on the Internet, police declared them to be secret evidence and refused to publicly say in court what he was…
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October 17, 2013
MK Ahmad Tibi, ex-settler leader Dayan duke it out on Twitter
Two of the most well-spoken public figures in Israel are MK Ahmad Tibi and former settler leader Dani Dayan. Dr. Tibi is known to lecture to the Knesset plenum in prose, and is considered one of the MKs with the best command of the Hebrew language. Dayan, on the other hand, has the uncanny ability…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
May 12, 2013
‘Prisoner X’: Censorship and gag orders in the age of new media
The ‘Prisoner X’ affair was sensitive enough for Israel to use all of its censorship tools at once: the military censor, gag orders and the ‘editors committee.’ But was the effort by the Prime Minister’s Office entirely about national security, or did it have to do with protecting those responsible for the mess? And what should…
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Noam Sheizaf
February 13, 2013
Palestinian ‘car protest’ in West Bank challenges road segregation
Palestinians attempted to set out in a motorcade of about 50 cars from Jericho en route to Ramallah this morning, to protest and challenge the system of Israeli-only roads throughout the West Bank, according to Twitter updates over the last few hours with the hashtag #carprotest. According to an Israeli Ta’ayush activist I spoke to…
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Mairav Zonszein
January 10, 2012
Is an insulting J14 hashtag really anti-Semitic?
Last week I posted this item, in which I referred to the #ThawretWeladElKalb (“Revolution of the sons of dogs”) hashtag used by some Arab twitterers to discuss J14 as an anti-Semitic term. Jalal Abukhater, who occasionally contributes to +972, has sent me the following rebuttal: I disagree that anything that criticizes something related to the…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 13, 2011
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