My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:
How threatening is an Israeli film about war crimes and AI-enabled mass killing in Gaza?
Release it during an Israeli election campaign, and watch almost the entire political establishment fall over themselves to defame, shame and threaten the filmmakers, while defending Israel’s campaign in Gaza as noble, justified and praiseworthy.
The newly released documentary, Naza, by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, details the elaborate ways in which Israeli military planners have unleashed hell on Palestinians in Gaza since 7 October 2023, with no care for the potential of civilian harm or death. In fact, the aim was a bloodbath.
The reality of this devastation has been copiously documented by Palestinian journalists in Gaza, who are being killed in unprecedented numbers by the Israeli army.
The film builds on the work done by Abraham in recent years, revealing in great detail the systems that Israel has developed to find new targets in its genocidal revenge campaign.
Read the whole column: As elections loom, Naza controversy strikes at the heart of Israel’s crisis | Middle East Eye