Ok this might be the weirdest story I’ve ever reported on, involving: • A totally fabricated “exclusive” • A suspected pro-Netanyahu influence campaign • An author whose biography is entirely made up What on earth is going on at @JewishChron ? 972mag.com/jewish-chronicle-…

In ‘NAZA,’ the documentary in which two dozen Israeli military personnel admit to committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza, soldiers likened the ongoing slaughter of 73,000 Palestinians, more than a quarter of them children, to playing video games. “I wanted to leave ten minutes in,” a retired lawyer said after watching it at IFC Center. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever seen.” She hoped everyone would watch it. That sentiment has been a recurring theme in reviews. Over the next two months, ‘NAZA’ will continue its rollout to theaters across the U.S. In late November, ‘NAZA’ will begin streaming for free on ‘The Guardian’’s website, allowing it to reach an even bigger global audience. The film’s popularity has led to intense criticism from pro-Israel and pro-Palestine factions alike. On both sides are those who want the anonymous IDF personnel identified — so that they can be charged with either war crimes or, perhaps, treason. And on both sides are those attacking the Israeli filmmakers, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, for telling the story from their country’s vantage point. ‘NAZA’’s goal is to expose the inner workings of a genocidal system, says Ben Reiff, Abraham’s editor at +972 Magazine, which published many of the initial investigations built upon in the film. “The idea is that it can help build cases for accountability on a much bigger scale than would be true of trying individual soldiers in a handful of cases when actually thousands of soldiers and the highest levels of state have overseen and ordered this campaign of annihilation,” he says. Whether the film can be used to advance the case for genocide at the ICJ or assist in issuing arrest warrants for war crimes at the ICC, however, may be more complicated than convincing viewers. Read Rachel Corbett’s full report: nymag.visitlink.me/tGqTPb

EDITORIAL: +972 condemns escalating threats against ‘NAZA’ directors A campaign of incitement by government ministers and far-right activists only proves how much Israel fears the truth — whoever is speaking it. 972mag.com/naza-yuval-abraha…

Israel Minister of Culture threatens to try and revoke citizenship from Yuval and Rachel, the directors of NAZA. This is the latest addition to Israeli politicians, from the government AND the opposition, lashing out at the film without even watching it

‘NAZA’, a film about Israel’s genocide in Gaza won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Co-director Yuval Abraham said Israeli officers described the mass killing of Palestinians as ‘not by accident, but by design’, and accused the US and Europe of enabling it.

A week and a half before October 7, 2023 UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes. In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel. Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his surprise, however, the prime minister reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu said that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank area, and he reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario. 🔗haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…

Postmortem sperm retrieval has become Israeli state policy, with a quarter of all male soldiers killed since October 7 undergoing the procedure. But by creating a pressure valve for grieving families, it only perpetuates war. Nathalie Rozanes reports. 972mag.com/israel-postmortem…

“The evidence paints a clear picture: The armed Palestinian militias have become an operational arm of the IDF and Shin Bet inside Gaza.”

Gaza “ceasefire” update: Israel can keep bombing. Palestinians are forbidden from flying kites.

“This woman is dying!” a man screamed again and again, as the ambulance carrying 30-year-old Sujoud Fuqaha sat stuck at an Israeli-controlled gate on its way to a hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah. 972mag.com/west-bank-checkpo…

I wrote in the NYT: Netanyahu’s insistence on Hamas’s disarmament before any Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza is detached from reality There is now a fragile opportunity with the decommissioning roadmap to break out of an otherwise intractable deadlock nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opini…