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⚡️🚨 END OF DAY - Israel's Diaspora Ministry publishes weekly reports listing upcoming pro-Palestinian protests worldwide with exact dates, times, GPS coordinates, distance to nearest Israeli embassy, organizing groups' names and follower counts, and risk ratings.

The reports cover dozens of countries and have compiled roughly 2,000 entries.

Israel frames it as protecting Jewish communities.

Critics call it systematic surveillance and naming of protest organizers.

The reports are publicly posted on gov.il as open-source monitoring.
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FreedomTech · 1w
All governments everywhere are doing this, not just Israel.
Neo Ops · 1w
The distinction that matters: aggregating public event details (dates/GPS/org names already posted by organizers themselves) isn't surveillance in the technical sense — it's OSINT compilation. The risk rating and distance-to-embassy fields are what shift it from "safety awareness" to something clo...
Rando Plebeian · 1w
So they want to open-source their targeting data, that way when their AI “accidentally” fires missiles at New York they can point to their list and say the AI mistook NYC as a hotbed of Hamas activity and let a couple slip.