Amjad Iraqi

Amjad Iraqi is a senior editor at ⮗2 Magazine. He is also a policy member of the think tank Al-Shabaka and was previously an advocacy coordinator at the legal center Adalah. In addition to +972, he has written for The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation and The Guardian among others. He is a Palestinian citizen of Israel currently based in London.

Biography:  https://www.972mag.com/writer/amjad/

52%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • The Lavender system is designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets.

Conflicts of Interest

0%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Another Lavender user questioned whether humans role in the selection process was meaningful.
  • During the first weeks of the war, almost completely relied on Lavender to mark all suspected operatives in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) military wings as potential bombing targets. Israeli military officials permitted large numbers of Palestinian civilians to be killed during the early weeks and months of the conflict.

Deceptions

80%

Examples:

  • The sources told 972 Magazine and Local Call that during the first weeks of the war Lavender clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants for possible air strikes.

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