Nariman Tamimi (left), Bassem Tamimi (center), and Ahed Tamimi (right) walk into Nabi Saleh after Nariman and Ahed are released from Israeli prison, July 29, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

‘We gave up on historic Palestine in exchange for nothing’

Bassem Tamimi, who has led popular protests in Nabi Saleh for more than a decade, says the two-state solution is 'no longer an option.'
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Prime Minister Netanyahu attends a planting ceremony for the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho, February 10, 2020. (Haim Zach/GPO)

The empty promise of annexation

The 'Deal of the Century' was supposed to be Netanyahu's ticket to re-election and out of prison. That may no longer be enough.
By Meron Rapoport
President Trump displays the controversial Executive Order on Combating anti-Semitism during an afternoon Hanukkah reception alongside members of his administration, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, in the White House, December 11, 2019. (Joyce N. Boghosian/White House Photo)

A failing campaign for the Jewish vote can’t hide GOP’s anti-Semitism

A new poll shows that no amount of right-wing smear campaigns can convince American Jews that the GOP has their best interests at heart.
By Dove Kent
A billboard put up by the far-right Israel Victory Project in Tel Aviv shows blindfolded Palestinian leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas. The caption reads: 'Peace is made with defeated enemies.' (Oren Ziv)

Yes, Israel wants peace — after it gets rid of the Palestinians

Billboards posted across Tel Aviv showing Palestinian leaders blindfolded and on their knees reveals what many Israelis think.
By Orly Noy
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) at the Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington, D.C., April 9, 2019. (Preston Keres/USDA)
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‘They’ve incited hate’: The Democratic congresswoman taking on AIPAC

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Sen. Bernie Sanders at the 2019 Iowa Democrats Hall of Fame Celebration, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 9, 2019. (Lorie Shaull/CC BY-SA 2.0)
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The disinformation campaign against a new UN database aims to legitimize the Israeli settler movement and those who illegally profit from it.
By Hugh Lovatt February 14, 2020
Binto, a survivor of FGM who was granted asylum in Israel, in her home. “I want them to stop doing this to girls everywhere. All women should be free and have control over their own bodies.” (Oren Ziv)
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Jewish Israeli settlers marching near the settlement of Kedumim in the occupied West Bank, on April 25, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)
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An IDF soldier shot dead 19-year-old Badr Nafla in the West Bank last Friday. The army claims the soldier's life was in danger, but a video of the incident suggests a different story.
By Ahmad Al-Bazz and Oren Ziv February 11, 2020
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs the Oslo Accords on the White House Lawn. Behind him are U.S. President Bill Clinton, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and other world leaders, Washington DC, September 13, 1994. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
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Israel has only ever offered Palestinians two things over the past century — submission or devastation — and the Americans have always backed them.
By Amjad Iraqi February 10, 2020
Palestinians pick olives during harvest season at a farm near the separation wall in the West Bank village of Deir Debwan, October 18, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
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South Africa's Bantustans were designed to weaken and fragment the black population. Under Trump's plan, Palestine could face a similar fate.
By Robert Swift February 9, 2020
Illustrative photo of an Israeli soldier attempting to block the view of a photographer as soldiers search Palestinian men in the West Bank city of Hebron, on June 22, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
‘The occupation broke her once. Now Israel is trying to break her again.’
Israeli soldiers arrested Birzeit student Mais Abu Ghosh and reportedly tortured her for weeks over political activities on her university campus.
By Jaclynn Ashly February 7, 2020
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, June 22, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
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