Joint List chairman Yousef Jabareen and supporters gather at the party’s election headquarters in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, following the closing of polling stations on Israel’s election night, October 27, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Palestinian citizens are the big winners of Israel’s election. It doesn’t matter

The historic result for Arab parties is rendered meaningless by an Israeli opposition that appears unwilling to partner with them to depose Netanyahu.
By Rami Younis
What remained of the house of the author's sister, Haya, after Israeli forces bombed it in May 2024. (Ahmed Dremly)

In a museum in Naples, I felt the ghosts of Gaza

The relics of Pompeii survived centuries buried under lava and ash. I fear the Gaza I knew will survive only inside me.
By Ahmed Dremly
Supporters of the United Arab List (Ra’am) party gather following the release of exit poll results in the northern Israeli city of Sakhnin, on Israel’s general election night, October 27, 2026. Photo (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

How Ben Gvir and Smotrich helped drive historic Arab voter turnout

Israel’s far right brought national politics into every Arab home. Palestinian citizens proved that fear and despair need not mean silence.
By Baker Zoubi
Israeli forces prevent Palestinians from reaching their land in the occupied West Bank village of Idhna, where Israeli settlers had burned their crops, May 5, 2026. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

‘There are no dreams here’: How Israel’s outgoing government remade the West Bank

Expanded land seizures, mass displacement, and over 100 new Jewish settlements have transformed an already fragmented territory.
By Shatha Yaish, Oren Ziv and Basel Adra
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What’s at stake for Palestinian citizens in Israel’s election?

Leena Dallasheh discusses the echoes of military rule in today’s crackdown on Palestinian dissent, and the struggle for a more substantive form of citizenship.
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A Palestinian youth is carried to an ambulance during clashes at the DCO checkpoint in the West Bank, October 5, 2015 (Muhannad Saleem/Activestills)
10 Palestinians killed in last 24 hours as deadly attacks continue
A seventh Palestinian succumbs to his wounds following Friday’s deadly clashes on the Gaza border. Further shootings and attacks into Saturday morning show few signs that the surge in violence is abating. A total of seven Palestinians have now been killed as a result of IDF fire at protests along the Gaza Strip’s border fence,…
By Natasha Soffer-Roth October 10, 2015
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) visits the West Bank with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (L) and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizencot (center-right), October 6, 2015. (GPO/Amos Ben-Gershon)
The right-wing solution for the violence
The Israeli Right has offered up legislation to deal with stone throwing, supported new settlements, and at times even championed annexation. The result has only led to a worsening security situation. In the thick of a wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, Israelis are either looking backwards to figure out how we got here, or…
By Dahlia Scheindlin October 10, 2015
A bloodied Palestinian protester is seen at a protest in the eastern Gaza Strip that left six Palestinians dead and over 130 injured when IDF troops opened fire over the border, Gaza Strip, 9 October, 2015. (Ezz Za'noun)
IDF kills 6 Gazans, wounds over 130 as violence spreads
As violence continues to sweep across Israel-Palestine on Friday, protests in Gaza along the border fence turn lethal when IDF units open fire on demonstrators in the besieged territory. At least 14 Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed since the wave of violence began. At least six Palestinians were killed and more than 130…
By Natasha Soffer-Roth October 9, 2015
Israeli army medics carry away a young Palestinian stone thrower who was shot in the leg by undercover Israeli troops on the outskirts of Ramallah. A tourniquet can be seen on his leg where he was shot, October 7, 2015. (Muhannad Saleem/Activestills.org)
When people can’t believe their eyes, it’s usually ideology
+972 published video of undercover Israeli soldiers restraining a Palestinian stone thrower and shooting him point blank in the leg. An astonishing number of people looked at the evidence and refused to believe what they saw. Yesterday I published a post about a video that showed Israeli plainclothes undercover soldiers restraining a Palestinian youth at a…
By Lisa Goldman October 9, 2015
Israeli police forces at a checkpoint restrict Palestinians from entering Jerusalem's Old City, October 6, 2015. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)
The heavy price of segregation and occupation
In Jerusalem nowadays, Palestinians stay on the east side, Israelis on the west, and Netanyahu’s right-wing government is smack in the middle racking up political points. Much of the violence taking place at the moment begs the question: who actually benefits from the occupation? We know it’s not the Palestinians, and it’s definitely not the…
By Sawsan Khalife' October 9, 2015
Palestinian youths hold Molotov cocktails on as they sit not he sidelines of clashes taking place in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, October 4, 2015. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills.org)
Israel still holds all the cards
The relative quiet on the ground in recent years, enforced by the Palestinian Authority on Israel’s behalf, led Israelis to believe they can enjoy peace and prosperity without ending the occupation. Thirteen years passed between the First Intifada, which broke out in December 1987, and the start of the second in October 2000. Both intifadas…
By Noam Sheizaf October 9, 2015
Station to Station 1: The fenced failure
A journey to the Holy Land’s disused railway stations begins with a sonnet of concrete. Digital and disposable camera photography by Elisha Baskin. (for the full, four part project, click here) There is an old railway station in south Tel Aviv. It isn’t really so old by local standards, being 80 years younger than the…
By Yuval Ben-Ami October 8, 2015
Palestinian shops are shuttered in the Old City of Jerusalem after Israel restricted entry of Palestinians following a series of stabbing attacks, October 5, 2015. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills.org)
Why is it so hard for leftists to speak out amid terror attacks?
Because we are shocked by the terrifying violence. Because we don’t want to play into the interests of the Right. Because we don’t want to appear disconnected from our society. But mainly because we tend to forget that, unlike the right wing, we have a solution for the conflict, and it benefits both Jews and…
By Haggai Matar October 8, 2015
Screenshot of Israeli undercover soldier shooting a Palestinian in the leg at point blank range, October 7, 2015.
WATCH: Israeli undercover agents shoot unarmed youth at point blank range
(Updated below with a response from the Israeli military spokesperson’s office.) A video released Wednesday onto several social media accounts and published by several news outlets shows Israeli plainclothes undercover officers apparently shooting an unarmed Palestinian youth in the leg at point blank range, while other undercover officers hold him down. The shooting and beating took…
By Lisa Goldman October 7, 2015
Israeli Border Police officers aim assault rifles toward Arab demonstrators in northern Israel during the events of October 2000. (Courtesy of Adalah)
Palestinian citizens will always be enemies in a Jewish state
The Or Commission’s report on the October 2000 events was a symbolic indictment of Israel’s ‘enemy doctrine’ toward its Palestinian citizens. But Israel has not absorbed the lessons of the report, because demands for equality remain anathema to the state’s raison d’être. Twelve years ago, in its report on the events of October 2000, the Or…
By Amjad Iraqi October 7, 2015
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