President Trump at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv)

How Israel-Palestine jumped to the heart of U.S. politics

A dramatic debate over Israel-Palestine is taking center stage in U.S. politics, and it shows no sign of dying down.
By Alex Kane
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a meeting of the right-wing parties bloc at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu to be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud

The prime minister has denied wrongdoing in the three cases against him, calling the investigations against him a 'witch hunt.'
By Edo Konrad
Illustrative photo of Israeli Border Police officers guarding a settlement in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

America’s long history of tolerating Israel's expansion

The U.S. has never treated Israeli settlements as illegal, as expansion continues with little resistance from Washington.
By Mitchell Plitnick
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man argues with a secular social justice protester in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2011. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

PODCAST: What does Israeli liberalism look like?

+972's Dahlia Scheindlin argues that the fierce debate over the separation of religion and state could lead to a wider shift.
By Edo Konrad
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with Idit Shemer, daughter of Iraqi-Jewish writer Ishaq Bar-Moshe, Ramallah, November 16, 2019. (Office of the President of the Palestinian Authority)

Abbas to family of Iraqi-Jewish author: ‘You are our bridge to peace’

An Iraqi-Jewish family visits Ramallah for the first time — at the personal invitation of the Palestinian president.
By Naomi Niddam
Ishaq Bar-Moshe in Iraq. (Courtesy of Bar Moshe's family)

The Mizrahi author whose book Mahmoud Abbas wants to distribute

Ishaq Bar-Moshe started writing in Arabic, his native language, two decades after emigrating to Israel from Iraq.
By Naomi Niddam
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas presides over a meeting of the Palestinian government in Ramallah, West Bank, on April 29, 2019. (Flash90)

The brewing war to succeed Mahmoud Abbas

The post-Abbas leadership will inherit a Palestinian government in political, economic, and internal crisis.
By Daoud Kuttab
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 23, 2017. (Flash90)

Stuck between Trump and Netanyahu, Abbas is running out of options

Are U.S.-led negotiations still the only game in town for the Palestinian Authority?
By Dalia Hatuqa
  • Palestinian families who fled to Jordan during the Six-Day War return to the West Bank through Allenby Bridge under an Israeli agreement with the Red Cross, July 18, 2019. (Teddy Brauner/GPO)
  • Palestinian refugee children seen in a makeshift school in Nablus, West Bank, 1948. (Hanini/CC BY-SA 3.0)
  • An Israeli military police officer checks entry permits of Palestinians on a bus crossing the Allenby Bridge into Israel. (Moshe Milner/GPO)

What would Israelis do if Palestinians disappeared overnight?

Ibtisam Azem speaks to +972 about how, with the sudden vanishing of ‘the enemy’ in her newly-translated novel, she confronts some of the darkest chapters of Israel's history.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland
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Palestinian students at Salem School in Nablus, West Bank wear eye patches in solidarity with journalist Moath Amarnih, who was wounded and lost sight in one eye during clashes with the Israeli army in the village of Surif. November 18, 2019. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
Partially blinded by an Israeli bullet, Palestinian journalist turns into icon
Thousands join a campaign to highlight the dangers faced by Palestinian reporters, who are regularly targeted by Israeli security forces with little fear of punishment.
By Oren Ziv November 20, 2019
Palestinian journalists take part in a solidarity campaign with Moath Amarnih, a Palestinian photographer who lost his eye while covering clashes in the West Bank.
Israel cannot hide the occupation by silencing Palestinian journalists
The solidarity campaign with a Palestinian photographer wounded by Israeli forces is a reminder that try it might, Israel won't stop journalists from covering the occupation.
By Haokets and Omri Najad November 18, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an 'emergency' Likud rally in Tel Aviv, November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
By labeling Arabs an ‘existential threat,’ Bibi invokes a terrifying history of ethnic violence
Netanyahu organized an emergency Likud gathering Sunday night, in which he accused Israel's Palestinian citizens of supporting terror. We know how this kind of thing can end.
By Dahlia Scheindlin November 18, 2019
Mourners attend the funeral of seven members of the Abu Malhous family killed by an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral, Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
With Gaza behind him, Netanyahu puts Israel’s Palestinians in the crosshairs
With corruption indictments closing in, Netanyahu hopes his scorched earth campaign against Palestinians will give Israelis the sense that they cannot afford change.
By Edo Konrad November 17, 2019
Palestinian demonstrators clash with Israeli Border officers during a protest against Jewish settlement expansion in Surif, occupied West Bank, November 15, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
Palestinian journalist loses eye after Border Police open fire on protesters
Photojournalist Moath Amarnih was struck by a bullet that likely hit a protester's leg before ricocheting and hitting him in the head while covering a protest in the West Bank.
By Oren Ziv November 17, 2019
Palestinians survey the destruction following an Israeli air strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
On the Gaza fence, a call for stability — not vengeance
The latest round of violence in Gaza has already taken the lives of at least 34 Palestinians. Meanwhile, in Israel's southern towns, residents want stability — not more war.
By Oren Ziv November 15, 2019
Palestinians gather around the home of Palestinian Islamic Jihad field commander Baha Abu Al-Atta after it was hit overnight by an Israeli strike in Gaza City, November 12, 2019 (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
Why Hamas is staying out of Israel’s fight with Islamic Jihad
Israeli coordination with Hamas has served mutual interests for years. Now Hamas is hoping to stay out of the current fighting to potentially expand its power in the West Bank.
By Menachem Klein November 13, 2019
Rowaida Abu Eid tries Palestine VR, an app that offers virtual tours of six regions in the West Bank and Gaza. (Screenshot of a a PIPD video)
New VR app circumvents Israel’s travel bans, takes viewers across Palestine
Palestine VR offers virtual tours across the West Bank and Gaza, allowing viewers to ‘see the reality on the ground’ themselves.
By Jaclynn Ashly November 13, 2019
Two settlers, one of them carrying a gun, stand near a mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron, April 1, 2001. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
What if Israel had decided to expel the settlers of Hebron?
After the massacre of 29 Palestinians in Hebron, Yitzhak Rabin could have taken action against the settlers there. Instead, he put Palestinians under closure.
By Amiram Goldblum November 13, 2019
Daily police violence is the new norm in Issawiya — with no end in sight
For the past six months, Israeli police have subjected Issawiya's residents to daily raids and arrests. No one seems to know the goal of the operation — including the police.
By Oren Ziv November 13, 2019