Mondoweiss U.S. correspondent Michael Arria speaks to Antony Lowenstein about his new book “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World”.
The U.S. Supreme Court determined that WhatsApp could proceed with its lawsuit against the Israeli spyware company NSO Group Technologies over its Pegasus hacking technology.
Despite their connections to apartheid, Israeli tech companies like Oosto continue to find support from foreign investors and governments, including the United States. The double standard towards Israeli tech perpetuates a culture of oppression targeting Palestinians.
Donald Trump openly conflates Judaism with Zionism. It’s antisemitic and deserves to be called out, but some of those criticisms have come from individuals and groups who have been pushing this very narrative for years.
Well-known lobbyist Steve Rabinowitz has only been able to maintain his reputation as a progressive due to Washington’s cognitive dissonance on Israel.
Democracy for the Arab World Now is calling on the U.S. government to investigate four lobbyists connected to the NSO Group for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The Israeli spyware firm NSO Group was blacklisted by Biden administration because foreign governments were using its products to surveil academics, journalists and human rights activists. A top Israeli defense official has said that Israel encouraged the exports because they served the national interest. At a closed conference the official said, “We should have defended NSO rather than caving to the Americans.” –From the media watch by JVP’s Health Advisory Council.
Salah Hammouri is a Palestinian-French lawyer and human rights advocate from Jerusalem who works with the prisoner’s rights organziation Addameer, which was designated as a ‘terrorist organization’ by Israel. Here, Hammouri describes the arrests and imprisonments he has experiences since he was a teenager, and Israel’s motives in the attacks today against him and other human rights defenders. “The state harassment against Palestinian organizations, my fellow human rights defenders and myself is only the continuation of policies by a regime that seeks to quash our people’s will for freedom at all costs, as well as any resistance to the colonial apartheid regime put in place since 1948, which has pushed colonization relentlessly ever since.” Hammouri writes.
The NSO developments and the terrorist designations were two separate stories involving Israel, or so most people thought. However, just days ago we found out that they are very much connected.
The Israeli government is lobbying the Biden administration to get sanctions on the NSO Group removed. The push comes amid calls for a deeper investigation into how the company’s hacking technology ended up on the phones of Palestinian activists.