Apartheid

Israeli soldiers patrolling through the Old City of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, 4 July 2026. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

‘Like walking into a cage’: Israel tightens its grip on Hebron

By taking over planning jurisdiction, unilaterally modifying religious sites, and erecting new checkpoints, Israel is accelerating its annexation of the Old City.

By Basel Adra July 14, 2026

Graffiti calling to boycott Israel, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, December 17, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

On boycott strategy and publishing Sally Rooney in Hebrew

Boycott exists for one reason: Palestine's liberation from Zionism. Translating novels for Israelis lacks a clear theory of action to help deliver that goal.

By Ahmed Moor June 2, 2026

An Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party conference in the southern city of Netivot, Feburary 16, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel’s death penalty drive enters next stage with Oct. 7 military tribunal

Lawmakers voted 93-0 to create a special court to try accused Palestinian perpetrators, designed to subvert due process and lead to mass executions.

By Sari Bashi May 21, 2026

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during the vote to pass the death penalty law in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘They already shoot us for no reason. Now they have a death penalty’

Under Israel's new law, only Palestinians will face capital punishment. Up next is a tribunal to execute those convicted of participating in the Oct. 7 attacks.

By Jared Hillel March 31, 2026

Shadmot Mehola Solar Field, in the Jordan Valley, occupied West Bank. (Sofia Fani Gutman)

With foreign backing, Israel’s solar energy boom is powering apartheid

Israel’s self-branding as a pioneer in sustainability obscures how its ‘green development’ is fueling the takeover of Palestinian land and resources — and international corporations are helping to bankroll it.

By Sofia Fani Gutman, Carolina Pedrazzi and Andrey X February 20, 2026

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the front a feminist march in Paris, March 7, 2025. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

The Gaza genocide radicalized the world — and there’s no going back

People can't unsee a live-streamed annihilation defended under the banner of liberal democracy. They know the Israeli apartheid regime can no longer exist.

By Tareq Baconi December 24, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ministers at the Knesset, March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war

In a two-year blitz, Israeli lawmakers passed over 30 laws curtailing Palestinians' rights and punishing dissent, a new report shows.

By Orly Noy December 2, 2025

Palestinian youth open a gate of the separation wall during a demonstration marking 12 years of the struggle against the Israeli occupation, in the West Bank village of Bil'in, February 17, 2017. (Oren Ziv)

How to end Israeli apartheid

Install a caretaker government, abolish unjust laws, disarm militias: a new book lays out a roadmap for a democratic future in Israel-Palestine.

By Jonathan Adler November 5, 2025

Palestine solidarity protestors take to the streets in Montreal, Canada to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza, October 4, 2025. (Haidi Motola/Activestills)

A ceasefire must not stall Israel’s growing isolation

Trump aims to restore Israel's legitimacy after two years of genocide. But as long as Jewish supremacy persists, so should sanctions and arms embargoes.

By Ahmed Moor October 15, 2025

A Palestinian flag hangs on a building in Amsterdam, Holland, June 20, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Between a revolution and a whisper

For Palestinians in Israel, self-censorship has long been a survival mechanism, our silence the condition of our citizenship. But encountering solidarity abroad, I realized my body forgot what it feels like to speak freely.

By Thawra Abukhdeir October 6, 2025

View of graffiti painted by artists of different backgrounds, supporting the Palestinians, seen painted on the separation wall in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 21, 2024. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90

Forget symbolic statehood — the world must recognize Israeli apartheid

The push to recognize a Palestinian state creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel's apartheid regime.

By Alaa Salama August 29, 2025

Rabbi Avraham Zarviv poses for a picture on June 29, 2025. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Israel’s destroyer-in-chief in Gaza lives in a settlement home marked for demolition

Avraham Zarviv, who boasted of razing 50 buildings a week as a reservist in Gaza, has an unenforced demolition order on his own West Bank home.

By Oren Ziv July 30, 2025

The writer among residents of Umm al-Khair, in the southern West Bank, December 2024. (Khadija Toufik)

How six months in the West Bank undid a lifetime of Zionist indoctrination

Like many American Jews, I was brought up to see Israel as infallible. Living among Palestinians taught me vital truths about the reality of the occupation.

By Sam Stein May 30, 2025