Palestinians gather in the West Bank city of Hebron, to watch as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN General Assembly, on September 27, 2018. (Wissam Hashlamounh/Flash90)

PODCAST: How the Palestinian Authority undermines resistance to annexation

By obsessing over statehood and relying on foreign aid, the Palestinian leadership has crippled its people's ability to mobilize against the occupation, says scholar Dana El Kurd.
By Amjad Iraqi
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Annexation: What happened (and didn’t) on July 1?

In a +972 webinar, experts Diana Buttu and Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man shared key lessons and ways forward in the fight against Israeli annexation.
By Amjad Iraqi
Palestinians wait at the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel on July 13, 2014. (Flash90)

How Israel’s relocation policy is separating Palestinian communities

Israel is systemically routing Palestinian movement in one direction — from the West Bank to Gaza. The silent transfer is splintering Palestinian society.
By Henriette Chacar
Amal Sumarin, her sons, and their attorney arrive for a court hearing on the JNF-KKL appeal to evict them from their family home at the Jerusalem District Court on June 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From Silwan to DC, the JNF is enabling Israeli annexation

Israel would not be on the verge of formalizing its control of the West Bank were it not for the JNF — an organization I was once a part of.
By Seth Morrison
A Palestinian man rests by Israeli soldiers near the site of the old village known as Ein Hijleh, in the Jordan Valley near the West Bank city of Jericho, February 5, 2014. (Issam RiImawi/Flash90)
ANALYSIS

Palestinians are fighting to dismantle apartheid, not just annexation

If you ask Palestinians in the Jordan Valley how they feel about annexation, many will say that they were already annexed long ago.
By Salem Barahmeh
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Palestinians in Gaza City demonstrate against Israel's plan to annex large swaths of the West Bank, July 1, 2020. (Mohammed Zaanoun)
Palestinians in Gaza hold ‘Day of Rage’ to protest annexation
Thousands take part in a mass demonstration against Israel's annexation plan in Gaza City. The protest was organized by various Palestinian factions who called for a 'day of rage' across the occupied territories.
By Mohammed Zaanoun July 1, 2020
Israeli security forces next to Palestinians protesting Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, Haris, June 26, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
‘Opposing apartheid is the only way this struggle can go’
Tareq Baconi, a Palestinian political analyst, says he is 'pessimistic' about the impact of annexation — but sees hope in the growing anti-colonial nature of the Palestinian struggle.
By Meron Rapoport July 1, 2020
A left-wing holds up a Palestinian flag at Tel Aviv Pride, June 28, 2020. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
Left-wing activist assaulted over Palestinian flag at Tel Aviv Pride
A man waving a rainbow flag physically attacked a fellow attendee at the Pride event, leaving her with bruises and swelling on her face and body.
By Oren Ziv June 29, 2020
Jamaal Bowman, the new Democratic candidate for New York's 16th Congressional District, at a protest demanding safer maternity care for Black women. (Courtesy of Bowman for Congress)
What Jamaal Bowman’s victory means for America’s progressive movements
Bowman's unseating of Eliot Engel shows that neither the power of incumbency nor the backing of the Israel lobby is enough to win an election.
By Alex Kane June 28, 2020
Palestinians in a car pass the separation wall at the Qalandiya checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, on Aug 18, 2009. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
The dangers of driving under Israeli apartheid
There is no such thing as a leisurely drive when a human error could get us killed by our colonizers.
By Izzy Mustafa June 26, 2020
Israel Black Panther and political activist Reuven Abergil in his Jerusalem apartment, August 1, 2012. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
‘Our ideology is our pain’: Notes of an Israeli Black Panther
Reuven Abergel, one of the founders of the Israeli Black Panthers, talks about the complex relationship between the Mizrahim who led the movement in the 1970s and the Ashkenazi leftists who supported it.
By Reuven Abergel June 26, 2020
Daniel Peldi (left) and Avia Yoel Finkovich, who signed on to a letter by 400 Israeli teenagers demanding Prime Minister Netanyahu not go through with annexing the West Bank. (Oren Ziv)
Israeli teens to Netanyahu: ‘Stop annexation as soon as possible’
400 Israeli teenagers sign letter addressed to the prime minister, saying 'annexation means deepening the conflict while entrenching occupation, violence, and racism.'
By Oren Ziv June 25, 2020
Illustrative photo of American Jews taking part in New York City's annual 'Celebrate Israel Parade.' (GIli Getz)
Mizrahi-washing: The new face of Israeli propaganda
A new brand of pro-Israel activism is exploiting the oppression of Mizrahi Jews in order to justify the subjugation of Palestinians.
By Lihi Yona June 25, 2020
Israeli Border Police walk through the City of David settlement in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, March 28, 2007. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)
How settler groups could use annexation to deepen Palestinian dispossession
For decades, settlers have used the Israeli legal system to take over Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. Activists fear those tactics may soon be used in the rest of the West Bank.
By Uri Agnon June 24, 2020
Israeli Border Police stand guard during a protest by Palestinians at Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, following US President Donald Trump's announcement that he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, on December 7, 2017. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90
‘If you take the land, you must give people citizenship’
Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem should be a lesson to Palestinians in the West Bank, says activist Aziz Abu Sarah. 'The central lesson I learned as a Jerusalemite is: You are on your own.'
By Orly Noy June 24, 2020
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