Palestine weekly: Israel’s rightwing campaigns on anti-Palestinian abuses

Ahead of an October election in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc is behind in the polls, far-right Israeli ministers have turned the machinery of occupation into campaign material over the last week – not merely as policy, but as the message itself. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, whose face already appears on campaign billboards across the occupied West Bank, released an AI-generated ad warning that he would do to the Negev and Galilee – areas with large Palestinian populations inside Israel – what he has done to the occupied West Bank by building Jewish settlements there under the slogan “Ahmed is right to be afraid”.

Vance says Trump ‘sending a message’ to Iran with AI-generated video Palestinian farmers rebuild what Israeli settlers destroy in West Bank Trump vows to hit Iran hard, says US escorting dozens of ships in Hormuz National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir responded with his own AI video depicting overweight Palestinian prisoners entering Israeli jails on an assembly line and emerging emaciated and crying. He also published a video of himself berating Palestinian women prisoners and separately planted an Israeli flag on seized United Nations agency for Palestinian refugee (UNRWA) facilities in occupied East Jerusalem. These were not rhetorical excesses divorced from policy; each echoed recent broader government actions or pressure this week – from seizing a UN facility to a hardening right-wing push for a post-election ground operation to reoccupy Gaza City rather than proceed with Hamas’s disarmament.

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