Posters and murals supporting the Palestinian struggle in the neighborhood of Neukölln in Berlin, Germany, July 21, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

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From textbooks to trips, Germany's education system is aggressively pushing a pro-Israel narrative hostile to any Palestinian dissent in the classroom.
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A display at Amram's exhibition on the Yemenite Children Affair in London. (Joanne Rosenthal)

London exhibit captures the racism that tore apart Mizrahi families

The new exhibition highlights the overlooked role of diaspora Zionist organizations in the disappearance of Israel’s Yemenite children.
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Far-right politician and Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir visits Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, June 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The sheriff comes for his share of the colony’s spoils

Ben Gvir represents a settler underclass demanding the full privileges derived from native dispossession.
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Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir arrives to the opening session of the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ben Gvir’s dream ministry brings Kahane’s vision one step closer

With the portfolio he’s craved, the far-right lawmaker can accelerate Israel’s colonial violence on both sides of the Green Line.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Davos, January 21, 2016. (Haim Zach / GPO)
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Can the U.S.-Israel relationship survive a far-right government?

Israel’s new coalition and growing hostility toward AIPAC are straining the countries’ ‘unbreakable’ bond. But don't expect major U.S. policy change.
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An Israeli soldier assaults a left-wing Israeli-Jewish activist in Hebron, occupied West Bank, November 25, 2022. (Courtesy of Breaking the Silence)
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Mikhael Manekin was part of a group of left-wing Israelis attacked by soldiers in Hebron last week. He tells +972 army violence in the city is getting worse.
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Workers hang a large election campaign poster of Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben Gvir and take down a poster of Arab MK Ahmad Tibi, in Jerusalem on September 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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Despite Arab parties focusing their election campaigns on the threat of the far right, it is the Jewish center left who seem to be more afraid.
By Baker Zoubi November 28, 2022
Israeli police arrest Palestinian citizens as armed settlers and police forces patrol the city of Lod/Lyd, May 13, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
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Israeli police launched a repressive operation against Palestinian citizens following last year's violence in 'mixed cities.' Abandoned by local leaders, activists built their own initiatives to support detainees and their families.
By Vera Sajrawi November 28, 2022
Haya Zaatry. (Maria Zreik)
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Matzpen co-founder Moshé Machover, London, July 11, 2008. (Hossam el-Hamalawy/CC BY 2.0)
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By Ben Reiff November 24, 2022
Israeli Jews march through Hebron in the occupied West Bank, after earlier attacks by settlers on the city's Palestinian residents, November 19, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
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Palestinian residents of the occupied city, long used to settler aggression, describe a mass attack by religious Israelis as security forces stood by.
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A Palestinian ‘lioness’ sets her record straight
Co-written with Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi's memoir spotlights the violent context that was missed by the media's fixation with her slapping of a soldier.
By Sarah Ariyan Sakha November 21, 2022
Yoni Battat in Jerusalem. (Emily Glick)
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Siblings Yoni and Sivan Battat discuss how collaborating on the former's music album became a means of reconnecting with their Iraqi family and heritage, and of disentangling Mizrahiness from Israeliness.
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By Tariq Kenney-Shawa November 16, 2022
Israeli soldiers accompany Palestinian students heading back home to the village of Tuba, at the end of their school day in the village of A-Tuwani, as they walk on a two-kilometer dirt road by the Israeli settlement of Maon, West Bank, September 28, 2021. (Oren Ziv)
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