Supporters of the Israeli activist group Zochrot carry banners and signs to remember the Nakba and Palestinian refugees as thousands march in the annual human rights march in Tel Aviv, December 9, 2011. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Refugees of apartheid: Why Israelis need to talk about Palestinian return

Amnesty's bombshell report and Ukraine's refugee crisis are an opportunity for Israelis to rethink their denial of Palestinian return to their homeland.
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Israeli soldiers in Jezzine, Lebanon, during the First Lebanon War. 1984. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

In Russia’s invasion, echoes of Israel’s debacle in Lebanon

Israel's 1982 occupation shows military power is not enough when it faces resistance and a home front that doesn’t believe in the war's goals.
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Palestinians inspect the ruins of a Palestinian house that was demolished by Israeli bulldozers in the West Bank city of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, on January 29, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

What Israel also destroys when it demolishes a child’s home

Children in the South Hebron Hills face a recurring trauma: the destruction of their homes, and of the security a home is supposed to bring.
By Hamdan Mohammed Al-Huraini
A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli Border Police officer as she tries to cross Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank, September 3, 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

THE LANDLINE | A racist Israeli law just got even more racist

How many more officials need to be blatant about their intentions before the world accepts that Israel wants to be an apartheid state?
By Amjad Iraqi
A Palestinian woman next to demolished home after they were torn down by Israeli bulldozers in the village of Khirbet al-Halawah, in Firing Zone 918, South Hebron, Hills, West Bank, February 3, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
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The threat of mass expulsion in Masafer Yatta

Israel's top court could displace over 1,000 Palestinians caught in a military 'firing zone.' Here's what you need to know before the final March 15 hearing.
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Israeli forces conducting a training drill near and inside villages in the Masafer Yatta area, West Bank, February 3, 2021. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)
Israel’s top court will decide whether to expel 1,300 of my neighbors
For 22 years, I watched as Israel tried to slowly break up Masafer Yatta. Now, the fate of eight of our Palestinian villages hangs on a final court hearing.
By Basil al-Adraa March 14, 2022
Amar Shafiq Abu Afifa. (Courtesy of the Abu Afifa family)
‘We were like brothers’: Refugee camp reels after army shoots Palestinian on hike
Amar Shafiq Abu Afifa was out strolling when Israeli soldiers gave chase and shot him in the head, adding to a grim toll suffered by al-Arroub refugee camp.
By Yuval Abraham March 10, 2022
Chicken inside a chicken barn at the Givat Olam organic farm, near the Jewish settlement of Itamar, West Bank, April 9, 2012. (Nati Shohat/Flas90)
When an Israeli chicken farm has more rights than a Palestinian village
From expropriating our land to poisoning our agriculture, settlement farms serve Israel's goal of forcing us out of our homes in the South Hebron Hills.
By Ali Awad and Awdah Hathaleen March 10, 2022
Palestinian students arriving from Ukraine on a rescue flight are welcomed by their families at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, March 1, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
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Governments are invoking 'diplomatic protection' to help their citizens at Ukraine's borders. But occupied Palestinians are falling through the cracks.
By Itamar Mann March 9, 2022
The Mezri family demolish their own home in Jabel Mukaber after learning that they would be forced to pay the Israeli authorities for carrying out the destruction, East Jerusalem, February 5, 2014. (Tali Mayer/Activestills.org)
To widen a road, J’lem municipality will destroy Palestinian homes
Experts say the planned destruction of dozens of houses in Jabel Mukaber is part of a raft of policies aimed at forcing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem.
By Orly Noy March 8, 2022
Neta Golan being arrested by Israeli forces during a protest in Turmus Ayya, occupied West Bank, December 19, 2014. (Courtesy of Neta Golan)
Israel arrested me for protesting the Gaza siege. Here’s why I refuse to stand trial
As an Israeli, it took me years to unlearn Zionism. Now, my solidarity with Palestinian prisoners compels me to reject a court summons.
By Neta Golan March 8, 2022
Birzeit University students involved with various political movements during a strike against the university administration's disciplinary measures against a Hamas-affiliated group on campus, February 2022. (Basil al-Adraa).
At Birzeit, a student strike rallies Palestinians of all stripes
Palestinian students across the political spectrum picketed classes for a month after Birzeit University tried to constrain a Hamas-affiliated group on campus.
By Basil al-Adraa March 7, 2022
Medical team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem, August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A medical school in the service of colonialism
Ariel University's new medicine faculty is part of a wider effort to normalize illegal settlements — and Israel's national medical body is defending it.
By Osama Tanous and Ghada Majadle March 3, 2022
Israeli settlers, accompanied by soldiers, throw stones at Palestinians and activists during the olive harvest, Huwwara, West Bank, October 7, 2020. (Heather Sharona Weiss/Activestills.org)
Israeli army blocking activists from calling ‘hotlines’ to report settler violence
Israeli activists accompanying Palestinian shepherds found their phones were blocked by army emergency centers while reporting settler attacks.
By Oren Ziv March 3, 2022
Palestinian protesters demonstrate and burn tires near the Israel-Gaza fence during the Great Return March, April 13, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
Want to understand Putin’s invasion? Look at Israel’s occupation
The way Putin frames Russian state violence in Ukraine is similar to the rhetoric Israel has been using in its wars against Palestinians for decades.
By Meron Rapoport March 1, 2022
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