The article and the post title make it sound like Samsung phones come with NSO software preinstalled and a drone strike is making its way to your living room. It's adware bloat. It's a privacy nightmare. It's predatory on the part of the OEM, be it Samsung or Lenovo or Microsoft or all the other OEMs that preinstall bloatware. It happens to be Israeli (though even that's not true - Unity is an American company).

There's no need to present it as anything less than what it is, it is enough of a scandal already. Fear mongering using the words "Israeli Spyware" just undermines the very just point being made.

While I generally agree that it's disingenuous, this framing could activate the reflexive hate against Israel that many people share and actually get something done.

Would be funny if antisemitism led to good outcomes for once