police brutality

Police officers arrest a demonstrator at a rally against Israel's war with Iran, at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, March 28, 2026. (Flash90)
Israeli police are violently suppressing our growing anti-war protests
As dissent over the Iran war spreads to the political center, demonstrators face crackdowns while opposition lawmakers are still nowhere to be seen.
By Iddo Elam April 1, 2026
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen with security forces during a tour of the Bedouin village of Tarabin Al-Sana, southern Israel, December 31, 2025. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
Israel is ‘restoring governance’ to the Negev — by terrorizing Palestinians
With the pretext of a stolen horse, police have turned the Bedouin village of Tarabin Al-Sana into a war zone. A fatal shooting was only a matter of time.
By Oren Ziv January 9, 2026
The mother of Iyad al-Hallaq reacts after the Jerusalem District Court acquits the police officer who who shot him dead, July 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Chronicle of an acquittal foretold
In the end, the Israeli judge simply played her role in a sideshow of due process. Iyad al-Hallaq was a Palestinian, and that means he had to die.
By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) July 21, 2023
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Israeli border police officers stand guard while Jewish Israelis visit the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Passover holiday the holy month of Ramadan, April 9, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
Israel, leave Ramadan alone
Instead of devoting ourselves to spiritual growth or being able to enjoy time with family, we Palestinians are made to fear this holy month.
By Samah Salaime April 14, 2023
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO speaks at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, July 15, 2019. (Michael Faas/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
I joined the ADL to fight racism. It’s actually doing the opposite
I learned first-hand how the Anti-Defamation League throws Black Americans and Palestinians under the bus for ties with police and right-wing donors.
February 7, 2022
AFP photojournalist Ahmad Gharabli. (Courtesy of Ahmad Gharabli)
Israeli police wound Palestinian photographer for second time in less than a year
Police shot Ahmad Gharabli in the chest with a sponge-tipped bullet during a home demolition in Jerusalem, six months after they beat him at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
By Oren Ziv January 27, 2022
Adaptation of photo of Israeli soldier wearing a 'Punisher' patch (B'Tselem) and a U.S.-Israel joint exercise (IDF).
Brothers in arms
The Punisher skull — whether worn in the United States or Israel — has become a global icon of grievance, hypermasculinity, and violent efforts to assert supremacy.
By Ben Lorber November 18, 2021
Illustration by Nerian Keywan.
The duty to be outraged
Black Americans and Palestinians are fighting for a world where we don’t have to cower in fear of an early death at the hands of injustice. We’re not wishing for the impossible. We’re predicting the inevitable.
By Pascale Péan February 18, 2021
Israeli security forces clash with Palestinian citizens in the town of Umm al-Fahem in northern Israel, July 5, 2014. (Omar Samir/Flash90)
The colonial heritage of Israel’s police
Like South Africa and the United States, Israel's police were explicitly designed to enforce racial supremacy with violence and impunity.
By Suhad Bishara October 6, 2020
A police water cannon douses dozens of protesters in central Jerusalem during clashes that followed a mass demonstration outside the Prime Minister's Residence, July 14, 2020. (Oren Ziv)
‘People are waking up’: 50 arrested in anti-Netanyahu protests
A protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned into a chaotic and historic night, during which Israeli-Jewish leftists turned their anger on the police.
By Oren Ziv July 15, 2020
Black Lives Matter protesters in London gather following the police shootings of Philando Castile and Alon Sterling in the United States, July 8, 2016. (Alisdare Hickson/CC BY-NC 2.0)
Yes, the UK also has a white supremacy problem
There is a reason George Floyd's murder resonated with Black British people: we are all too familiar with the UK's institutional racism and police brutality.
By Nadine Batchelor-Hunt June 21, 2020
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