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Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers arresting a Palestinian man in the West Bank, on December 8, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
Israel is turning Palestinian students into criminals
Israeli authorities have arrested at least 64 Palestinian university students since the start of 2019. That number is only growing.
By Jaclynn Ashly October 31, 2019
Palestinians protesting job cuts at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the West Bank city of Nablus, on March 15, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
Politicizing Palestinian refugees won’t make them go away
By defunding UNRWA and attempting to define Palestinian refugees out of existence, the Trump administration is only shooting the messenger. UNRWA is a product, not the source, of the Palestinian refugee problem. By Zena Agha Last Friday, the Trump administration announced that the United States would no longer fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency…
By +972 Magazine September 7, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo: Kobi Gideon / GPO)
What will Israeli politics after Netanyahu hold for the Palestinians?
Disrupting Israel’s insular political discourse will require fully activating the Palestinian leadership in Israel, grassroots and civil society organizations, and foreign governments and institutions. In August 2017, three thousand Israelis greeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a rally in Tel Aviv organized by the Likud party. A few days earlier, media outlets reported that the…
By Amjad Iraqi March 16, 2018
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[op-ed] Israelis, stop swimming in our shit
A new report by Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network details the damage that consecutive Israeli military assaults have caused to Gaza’s water systems, whereby 95 percent of the water consumed in the Strip for decades has been unfit for human consumption. By Sam Bahour Palestinians in Gaza are starting to wake up from the shell-shock of Israel’s 51-day Ramadan…
By +972 Magazine September 5, 2014
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