Alec Karakatsanis

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Settlers reportedly tied up his arms and legs, cut off his underwear, zip-tied his penis, then paraded him around his family while beating him. Corroborated by multiple witnesses.

A few weeks ago, we won a case in the California Supreme Court in which it appears that prosecutors filed briefs laced with AI hallucinations. We sounded the alarm then, but this story is much more profound. latimes.com/california/sto…

These developments are happening with almost no democratic public debate, and almost no meaningful public oversight. Most lawyers even are totally in the dark about how the cases they are working on are being decided--and by whom.

There has been an alarming development in our legal system. Judges are starting to contract with a private corporation started by an ex-Palantir employee--whose bio says he is also a former speechwriter for Israel's UN ambassador--to have **secretive proprietary AI help decide cases for them.**

I am a reporter on the ground. Let me help you understand what is happening. Israel killed almost 500 men, women and children (all civilians) and committed horrific acts of ecocide and ethnic cleansing since the first day of the implementation of the ceasefire. Per UNIFIL, Israel violated the ceasefire 15,400 times. Hezbollah never violated it or attacked the occupied territories in any way. Here’s a short video, a mere fraction of what the year was like before this new war started. You’re a government official. Inform yourself.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-lonesome…

It's obvious the IDF not only killed, but intentionally killed (murdered), Hind Rajab. Leaving aside the - overwhelming - specific evidence in this case, we have a pattern: Israeli ground troops in Gaza were allowed to shoot every Palestinian they encountered in "kill zones." How it worked: Israel would issue en masse evacuation orders to Palestinians (these are the "leaflets" and "texts" John Spencer fetishizes), before sending its ground troops to a general area of operation. Then, the troops would be allowed to kill every Palestinian they encountered in their field of operations, including little kids like Hind. These "kill zones" were far more radical than those operated by the US in the Vietnam War: they lacked clear borders, eventually comprised the majority of all territory in Gaza, and the IDF not only shot older boys and men, but (systematically) shot women and prepubescent children. (To be sure, there are credible reports that some more "liberal" commanders forbade IDF ground troops to kill women and young kids; however, others like Yehuda Vach of Division 252 sanctioned it. That's how pic related happened.) Hind Rajab was murdered by the IDF in one such kill zone. Specifically, she and her family were attacked in their car by the IDF around 1 PM in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City; and then she was attacked again (murdered) by the IDF that evening. We know Tel al-Hawa was a kill zone. We know this because it was explicitly included in an IDF evacuation order issued on the morning of January 29, 2024. Contrary to IDF lies, the IDF was, naturally, operating in this designated kill zone. The IDF policy, sanctioning the killing of any civilian IDF ground troops encountered, continues today with any Palestinian including prepubescent children who crosses the "yellow line" shot and killed on the spot.

@KrallIan One can criticize one thing a person does without "ignoring" everything else they've ever done. I don't think you should be infuriated by this.

@equalityAlec (yes, more than one, I get it)

THREAD. I have to say that I am very disappointed with John Oliver. I finally watched his segment on police body cameras, and it was abysmal. Missed the whole point, and in the process bought into some of the worst copaganda about them.

@StevenZubrod thank you!

@equalityAlec I watched your clip and bought your book (ebook sorry wanted it right away). Read the first three sentences in the intro and it was so good that I had to call a friend and read it to them.

@KrallIan I’ve help the John Oliver show before. I’m aware of what he’s capable of doing and how important a voice he can be if done rigorously. That’s why I was disappointed. And no, he did not cover these things in a useful or accessible way in this one. Just calling it like I see it.

@equalityAlec And now that I re-read your essay, it all seems even more disingenuous, since he talks about many of the issues you mention. Seems like you are just taking this opportunity to market your book, and casting him, manipulatively, as a villain to contrast your heroic work against.

Also vital: as I explain in the copaganda book, this kind of propaganda is distorts peoples’ view of the *intentions* of the powerful. People will keep making mistakes and pursuing wrong solutions and putting same groups in power if they don’t understand *why* they keep doing bad things despite nice rhetoric.

As I discuss in the writings, this stuff matters because people like Oliver are selling a lot of well-meaning liberals and progressives a fake story about why the punishment bureaucracy and people in power do things, and this affects what kinds of solutions people can imagine.

AIPAC has spent $9 million in just two Illinois primaries - IL-8 and IL-9. All under shadow PAC names, none of it ever mentioning Israel. This is unlike anything that has ever happened in the history of US elections

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