IN THIS ISSUE:
Normalizing the Surveillance State—Cybersecurity Cooperation and the Abraham Accords
The new, and not-so-new, cyber dimension of Arab-Israeli normalization.
India, Israel and the Coordination of Control
How Modi is weaponizing the ‘Israeli Experience’ to target dissent.
Organizing for Digital Rights—An Interview with Mohamad Najem of SMEX
Activists are fighting for an online civic space.
Big Tech’s Partnership with Authoritarianism
A perspective on the role of major tech corporations in fueling repression.
CURRENT ANALYSIS
![Israel and the Laws of War—A Conversation with Neve Gordon](http://web.archive.org./web/20231123052713im_/https://merip.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GettyImages-1757154250-250x163.jpg)
Israel and the Laws of War—A Conversation with Neve Gordon
The uses and abuses of the law in Israel’s war on Gaza.
![Orhan Veli’s Poetry and the Struggle to Preserve Istanbul’s Green Spaces](http://web.archive.org./web/20231123052713im_/https://merip.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1479376902-250x167.jpg)
Orhan Veli’s Poetry and the Struggle to Preserve Istanbul’s Green Spaces
On the Republic’s one hundred year anniversary, how does the poet’s work speak to the Istanbul’s urban transformation?
![Palestinian Trade Unions Call for an End to Arming Israel](http://web.archive.org./web/20231123052713im_/https://merip.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1725837045-250x167.jpg)
Palestinian Trade Unions Call for an End to Arming Israel
Amid an escalating crisis in Gaza, trade unions in Palestine appeal for international solidarity.
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FEATURED PRIMER
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One of MERIP’s signature issues over the years has been the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict—partly because of its intrinsic interest but largely because so much myth and cant clouds the mainstream media coverage of this subject that independent analysis is particularly necessary. This primer by Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar is a good place to start in understanding what is at stake as events unfold.
(Photo of Israeli separation barrier by Alfonso Moral.)