The documentary film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor follows the predictable script of the regretful soldier, but the subjects in NAZA express something darker: mourning the loss of power.
The judge who sentenced Elor Azaria, the soldier who shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif in 2016 as he lay unconscious on the ground, called him a “normal” person, because Azaria’s genocidal views were never an aberration in Israeli society.
A new Israeli security doctrine recasts settler violence, long regarded by the establishment as destabilizing, as a guarantor of Israel’s security. Settler leaders are now seeking to solidify this new status quo in the West Bank ahead of elections.
After passing two death penalty laws in six weeks, Israel is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to try to execute Palestinians on live TV. Unanimous support for the laws shows that Israeli society can unite around “death to Palestinians.”
European governments are finally being forced to condemn Israel as its crimes have become impossible to ignore. But they are scapegoating National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir rather than confronting the system he represents.
Itamar Ben-Gvir has been attacked across Israeli politics for a cruel video showing him mocking flotilla activists as they were being abused by officers. His offense was not his fascist celebration, but rather showing the true face of Israel.
The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.
The passing of the recent Israeli death penalty law aimed at Palestinians formalizes what Israel and colonial powers have always done: creating new laws to legalize colonial violence.
Human rights groups condemned a new Israeli law targeting Palestinian prisoners with the death penalty as a possible war crime and “deeply discriminatory.’ Meanwhile, Israeli ministers celebrated the law’s passage with champagne on the Knesset floor.
Israel is advancing a dangerous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings.