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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in 2016.

Microsoft doesn’t get scrutinized as much as its peers, but the corporation provides a bold example of how corporations benefit from, and contribute to, Israeli militarism and violence. Microsoft cultivates and helps export Israel’s dangerous tools, while also sanitizing the deadly US-Israeli alliance with the help of non-profits and academic partnerships.

Northeastern University panel on Americans emerging from COVID trauma elevates Israeli militarism under “existential threat” as key to the “startup nation” — yet another sign of the extent to which Israeli hasbara, or propaganda, is routinely put forward in leading American institutions as a guide to American thinking and policy. Israeli soldiers are the heroes in this discourse — and Palestinians are the shadowy terrorists.

A California judge recently threw out a lawsuit launched by a former Israeli solider which attempted to apply Israeli defamation law against Palestinian activist Suhair Nafal. Nafal’s attorney says the attempt to introduce Israeli law into a U.S. courtroom was truly unprecedented. “This was not a lawsuit against Suhair,” he told Mondoweiss. “This was a lawsuit from Israel against all activists.”