From the Palestinian director shattering taboos in her own society, to a journey away from Zionism, to Richard Gere likening Hebron to Jim Crow, here are the most popular articles we published this past year.
By +972 Magazine Staff
20. Looted from Beirut 35 years ago, now on display in Tel Aviv
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A still from the film ‘Looted and Hidden.’
19. Two killed in Bedouin village slated to be demolished, replaced with Jewish town
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Thousands hold a funeral for Yacoub Abu al-Qi’an in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran. Abu al-Qi’an was shot dead by police as security forces demolished homes in the village, January 24, 2017. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)
18. The Palestinian director bringing her generation to the big screen
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Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud. (Yariv Fein)
17. Is Sheldon Adelson behind Trump’s decision on Jerusalem?
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Casino mogul and Trump mega-donor Sheldon Adelson with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)
16. Guess which of these human rights Israel guarantees to Palestinians
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Participants in the 2016 Palestine Marathon run along Israel’s concrete separation wall, Bethlehem, West Bank, April 1, 2016. (Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)
15. The annexation of Palestine could be closer than you think
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An Israeli soldier tries to prevent a photograph being taken of construction on the separation wall, Bethlehem, January 7, 2006. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
14. Ahed Tamimi flips Zionist mythology on its head
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Ahed Tamimi faces down a soldier in Nabi Saleh. (Haim Shwarczenberg)
13. Army arrests Palestinian teen for hurting soldiers’ masculinity
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Nariman Tamimi (left), Bassem Tamimi (center), and Ahed Tamimi seen in their home in Nabi Saleh, February 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
12. My sister is refusing to join the IDF — and I couldn’t be prouder
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Israeli conscientious objector Atalya Ben-Abba. (Yona Benstein)
11. WATCH: Jewish Defense League activists beat Palestinian-American at AIPAC
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Members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) beat a 55-year-old Palestinian man outside the AIPAC convention in Washington D.C., March 26, 2017. (Screenshot)
10.Before Zionism: The shared life of Jews and Palestinians
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Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, toward the end of the Ottoman Empire’s control over Palestine.
9. The Palestinian guide to dealing with racist compliments from Israelis
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8. Supreme Court rules against exposing Israel’s role in Bosnian genocide
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A mass grave in Bosnia. (ICTY)
7. Senior Israeli gov’t minister warns Palestinians of ‘third Nakba’
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Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Tzai Hanegbi, a close ally of Prime Minister Netanyahu, cropped, December 28, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Flash90)
6. Netanyahu’s son just published an anti-Semitic cartoon on Facebook
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The anti-Semitic cartoon published on Yair Netanyahu’s Facebook.
5. Thousands of Israeli, Palestinian women ‘wage peace’ in the desert
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Israeli and Palestinian women from ‘Women Wage Peace’ march near the Dead Sea in the West Bank to demand their leaders do more for peace, October 8, 2017. (Flash90)
4. A Palestinian’s first-class seat next to Naftali Bennett
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Minister of Education Nafatli Bennett speaks during an Education Ministry award ceremony of the education in Jerusalem, September 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
3. How the world missed a week of Palestinian civil disobedience
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Palestinians hold a mass evening prayer adjacent to Jerusalem’s Old City, July 23, 2017. (Activestills.org)
2. Richard Gere on segregation in Hebron: It’s exactly like the Old South
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Screenshot of Richard Gere touring the West Bank city of Hebron with Breaking the Silence, March 2017.
1. Nabi Saleh is where I lost my Zionism
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Israeli border policemen arrest Nariman Tamimi during the weekly protest against the Israeli occupation, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, June 28, 2013. (Oren Ziv/ Actviestills.org)