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Israeli officers blindfold a Palestinian citizen of Israel during violent confrontations in Lydd, central Israel. (Oren Ziv)
In a surprise campaign on Monday, Israeli authorities launched “Operation Law and Order,” in which thousands of national police officers, Border Police members, and army reservists arrested hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel accused of participating in this month’s mass wave of protests.
In their announcement to the press, the Israeli police claimed that they were looking for “the rioters, the criminals, and everyone who was involved in the events, in order to prosecute them” and to “settle the score” with those who took part. In the two weeks prior, the police had already arrested more than 1,550 people and filed about 150 indictments, some against more than one defendant.
Life Magazine cover celebrating the Israeli victory in the 1967 war. Screenshot from “The Occupation of the American Mind.”
I’m excited to take part this Sunday in a panel about American foreign policy in the Middle East and the role of Israeli propaganda and the Israel lobby.
The panel will feature Diana Buttu, the Palestinian human rights lawyer, and Sut Jhally, professor and producer of the great documentary, “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States.”
I just rewatched the film to prepare myself and though it was made in 2016, it’s sadly, stunningly fresh. Little has changed! Israel still manages to wrap American opinion and foreign policy around its little finger through a sophisticated propaganda operation.