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PODCAST: Israel’s genocidal government is dissolving. Its legacy is here to stay

ACRI head Noa Sattath reflects on four years of far-right rule, and the paradox of defending democratic institutions in an apartheid state.

By +972 Magazine August 17, 2026

Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 23, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers

Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.

By Hila Amit January 7, 2026

Demonstrators outside the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

To sacrifice or free the hostages? Israeli protesters have chosen a side

Fearing for the remaining captives, the mass rallies that erupted across Israel were essentially demanding an end to the war — and Netanyahu knows it.

By Meron Rapoport September 4, 2024

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Pro-Palestinian protesters in Washington demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to the U.S. Congress, July 24, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

In Washington’s streets, a new popular consensus on Palestine

While Congress cheered Netanyahu, grassroots mobilizations of the Democratic base marked a sharp break from the party’s support for Israel.

By Ahmed Moor August 5, 2024

Anti-government protesters gather outside the Likud's headquarters in Tel Aviv, calling for elections and for a hostage deal, June 22, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

As Netanyahu abandons the hostages, Hamas may seek to extend the war

The growing rift between the Israeli government and army — along with the prospect of all-out war in Lebanon — could push Hamas to continue fighting.

By Meron Rapoport June 24, 2024

The radical bloc at an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

‘No democracy with apartheid’: Inside the radical bloc at Israel’s anti-gov’t protests

Activists tell +972 that they want to challenge Israeli protesters to look beyond the far-right coalition and see the conditions that enabled its rise.

By Ben Reiff January 25, 2023

Dana Mills, the interim executive director of Peace Now. (Oren Ziv)

Peace Now is taking direct action against settler outposts. Can it succeed?

The anti-occupation group is pushing the Zionist left to adopt more disruptive tactics, says interim head Dana Mills. But are there limits to its approach?

By Oren Ziv and Meron Rapoport August 16, 2022

Left-wing Israeli activists gather for a photo in front of a bulldozer ahead of a protest organized by Peace Now against the Homesh outpost, May 28, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s peace camp is taking up bulldozers to fight the occupation

A demo against a settler outpost shows how Israeli activists are increasingly adopting radical direct action following the anti-Netanyahu protests.

By Oren Ziv and Haggai Matar June 1, 2022

Hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis march from Silwan in East Jerusalem to the Prime Minister's Residence, February 6, 2021. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Can Silwan’s rekindled protests beat back Israel’s eviction threats?

With little hope that the courts will stop the settlers' eviction campaign, one Palestinian activist feels energized by the Israelis joining the neighborhood's struggle.

By Oren Ziv March 1, 2021

Jacob Anthony Chansley, one of the Capitol rioters, is seen outside Capitol Hill after it was stormed on January 6, Washington DC. (Blink O'fanaye/CC BY-NC 2.0)

Bibi goes MAGA: How Netanyahu is exploiting the Capitol Hill riot

The Israeli prime minister and his supporters in the media are spinning the riot in Washington to paint anti-Netanyahu protesters as a dangerous threat.

By Yali Marom January 13, 2021

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the PM's official residence in Jerusalem, Dec. 12, 2020. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

There is no defeating the right without Israel’s oppressed groups

If the Balfour protests are only interested in removing Netanyahu, it will not matter to their leaders how racist the alternative will be.

By Tom Mehager January 5, 2021

A police water cannon douses protesters in central Jerusalem during clashes that followed a mass demonstration outside the Prime Minister's Residence, July 14, 2020. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

The Balfour protests helped to topple Netanyahu. But at what cost?

Even if the next government is worse, the anti-Bibi protests show that when enough people mobilize around a single message, they have a chance to win.

By Meron Rapoport December 23, 2020

An anti-Netanyahu protester holds up a sign reading 'Netanyahu, you're next' during a demonstration against the prime minister following the election of Joe Biden to the presidency of the U.S., Jerusalem, November 7, 2020. (Oren Ziv)

‘Bibi is next’: Anti-Netanyahu protesters celebrate Biden victory in Jerusalem

Marching through the streets of Jerusalem, protesters expressed hope that like Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu would soon be out of a job.

By Oren Ziv November 8, 2020