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MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a discussion and a vote on The vote on the "Flag Bill" in the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The Israeli right is planning to ban Palestinian parties. Here’s how

If the government secures a forever majority, it will bolster the argument that there is an apartheid regime between the river and the sea.

By Sawsan Zaher

Tareq Barghouth (center) speaks to the Israeli press. (Philippe Bellaïche)

A Palestinian prisoner’s letter to his Israeli occupiers

Do I regret my imprisonment? That’s complicated. I do regret one thing: letting them push me into a corner.

By Tareq Barghouth

Illustrative photo of armed Israeli settlers during a protest of Palestinians in the South Hebron HIlls, June 10, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Armed settlers break into Palestinian family home under cover of darkness

Settlers from a nearby grazing outpost entered the home, turned it upside down, and demanded the family 'stop bringing leftists' to the area.

By Yuval Abraham

Residents of Masafer Yatta load their belongings onto trucks during the expulsion of 1999. (Nasrin Elian/B'Tselem)

The photos that once helped save Masafer Yatta from expulsion

In 1999, images of Palestinians' lives being upended caused enough pressure to stop their deportation. Now, they fear the next expulsion.

Yael Lerer. (Rabeea Eid)

INTERVIEW

The Israeli bringing the fight for justice in Israel-Palestine to France’s parliament

After years in the Israeli radical left, Yael Lerer wants to replace a Netanyahu ally as the representative of French citizens in the eastern Mediterranean.

By Deborah Leter

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Yehuda Glick, a prominent Temple Mount activist, visits the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem. (Oren Ziv)

The Temple Mount movement braces for its moment

With its activists now sitting in Israel's government, the once-fringe movement has gained unprecedented influence over the fate of Jerusalem's holiest site. The next weeks could herald even more danger.

By Nate Orbach March 20, 2023

Israeli protesters clash with police on horseback while blocking Ayalon Highway during an anti-government demonstration, March 16, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Israelis, welcome to BDS

Though not named as such, BDS tactics have been central to Israel’s anti-government protests. And the hypocrisy is not lost on Palestinians.

By Amjad Iraqi March 19, 2023

Illustrative photo of Palestinian prisoners in Damoun Prison. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

As crackdown intensifies, Palestinian prisoners gear up for Ramadan protest

Prisoners hope the Palestinian public will join collective actions against Israel's punitive measures, which have harshened under the far-right government.

By Sharona Weiss March 16, 2023

Left-wing activists protest against a settler attack on Huwara, in Haifa, February 27, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Do Palestinian citizens want a place in Israel’s anti-gov’t protests?

While fully aware of the danger at hand, Palestinians in Israel are conflicted over how to respond to a movement that longs for the Zionist days of yore.

By Samah Salaime March 13, 2023

Cassandra Auren seen following a settler attack in the village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, March 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

‘Who hits a 64-year-old woman with a bat?’

Cassandra Auren, an American peace activist, was visiting the Palestinian village of Tuba when settlers attacked her with a bat and fractured her skull.

By Yuval Abraham March 13, 2023

Israeli anti-government protesters hold up a sign in solidarity with Huwara following the pogrom on the town, Tel Aviv, March 5, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Israeli protesters chanted for Huwara. Why not for Nablus?

The selective outrage over settler attacks renders only some Palestinians worthy of sympathy, legitimizing a far more dominant form of violence.

By Dan Owen March 12, 2023

MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Knesset's Constitution Committee, poses for a picture at the Knesset, Jerusalem, January 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Welcome to Simcha Rothman’s vengeful coup

Embodying the rage that drives the Israeli right’s judicial assault, the chair of the Knesset’s Law and Justice Committee is poised to bring his once-fringe ideas to fruition. And, he tells +972, he is just getting started.

By Nate Orbach March 9, 2023

Bezalel Smotrich, February 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly

By marking one Israeli politician as unacceptable, U.S. Jews are sidestepping the need to reckon with the wider system that enables his genocidal views.

By Edo Konrad March 9, 2023

Israeli settlers take part in the annual Purim parade in Hebron, March 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reclaiming Purim from the supremacists

This Purim, we must celebrate not by clinging to a 'self defense' of war and apartheid, but by envisioning a world based on support and interdependence.

By Lexie Botzum March 7, 2023

WEF founder Klaus Schwab (left) on stage at the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2023. (World Economic Forum/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

At Davos, talk of Palestinian prosperity without freedom is ‘a charade’

An outdated initiative for Israeli and Palestinian executives reflects the business world's unwillingness to tackle the conflict's root causes, say insiders.

By Hebh Jamal March 7, 2023