The Dissident reports:
Israeli Shin Bet 'Disappears' Russian-Israeli Historian Who Was Critical Of Zionism.
The Israeli Shin Bet Has Disappeared A Russian Historian With Israeli Citizenship For Criticism Of Zionism.
As the post states, it is clearly now a 'thoughtcrime' for certain Israeli citizens to be critical of the state.
According to Dubrovsky [a friend], “On August 2nd, Kirpichenko landed in Tel Aviv. A lawyer hired by his friends has since confirmed that he is being held by the Shin Bet — Israel’s internal security service” adding , “it’s so obvious he posed no danger to the authorities whatsoever: he wasn’t a member of any party, he never took any practical action on anything — partly because he was an extremely impractical person.
His only crime was his opinion on various political questions. A thoughtcrime, in other words: ‘the essential crime that contained all others in itself,’ as Orwell wrote.”
This kind of Stalinesque thoughtcrime action that Orwell posed as a hallmark of totalitarian government is becoming more common everywhere these days including the UK (Galloway, Linehan, Robinson) where practically anyone can be stopped at the border for thoughtcrimes.
Generally people are released with a 'just don't think that way again' warning but not always - as those kidnapped from humanitarian aid flotillas to Gaza found out to their cost.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/world/middleeast/gaza-flotilla-israel-abuse.html
It would be a lot easier to just round all these people up and put them in a camp, like the US did with Japanese Americans in WW2, but clearly those optics are not good, so it's easier to pick people off one-by-one.
But the question is: Why are 'democracies' so worried about opinions that don't fit the mainstream narrative?
They are not the Third Reich where anything not in line with National Socialism was ruthlessly eliminated?
So why is Orwell's thoughtcrime, like Newspeak, becoming the way of the world?