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The changing relationship between Palestinians on either side of the wall
Despite physical separation and internal divisions, Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line are once again talking about the future of their struggle, and the role that Palestinian citizens of Israel can play. Out of sight from most of the Israeli public, yet under the close watch of the government, an internal debate has been raging within…
By
Rami Younis
July 15, 2018
WATCH: The Arab youth mainstreaming Palestinian identity in Israel
Today, many young Arab citizens of Israel are no longer afraid of being proud of their Palestinian identity. Yet there is a general sense that the establishment is trying to prevent them from defining their own identity. What happens when Arabs who take pride in their people want to ‘make it’ into the mainstream? The third and final part in a series on Palestinian…
By
Rami Younis
January 25, 2017
WATCH: ‘Israeli Arab’ or Palestinian?
One in five Israeli citizens are Arab — Muslim, Christian, Druze, Bedouin. A 2014 +972 Magazine poll found that the percentage of Arab citizens of Israel who identify as Palestinian has risen dramatically in recent years. Rami Younis and Israel Social TV explore the changing Palestinian identity politics inside Israel. Stay tuned for the next episodes…
By
Rami Younis
January 6, 2017
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Conditional rights, conditional citizenship
Palestinian citizens of Israel have never known what it means to be welcome citizens in the country of their birth. In a much-discussed video message to Palestinian citizens of Israel last week, Prime Minister Netanyahu lauded the achievements of Arabs in the arts, business, politics and the legal world. “Israel is strong because of our…
By
Sawsan Khalife'
August 1, 2016
Israel cannot afford to abandon its Arab youth
Sixty thousand Arab youths in Israel are defined as ‘idle,’ neither working nor studying, a precursor to a life of unemployment and violence. It’s time for the state to take drastic steps to ensure they too have a future. By Makbula Nassar Sixty-thousand young Arabs between the 18-22 are defined by the state as “idle”…
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+972 Magazine
June 16, 2016
Economic equality is an unconditional right
Right-wing ministers in Israel’s government are putting their own political interests over the economic and social needs of the country’s Arab citizens. By Rawnak Natour and Abed Kanaaneh Arab citizens of the State of Israel have suffered from discrimination by the establishment since the day the country declared independence in 1948, discrimination that is reflected…
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+972 Magazine
February 4, 2016
WATCH: Afraid to speak Arabic in public
Public expressions of racism toward Palestinians are nothing new in Israel, but along with a rise in violence and the accompanying societal tensions, Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel have more and more to fear — of Israeli civilians and police alike. Social TV asked young Palestinians in Jaffa what scares them most these days.
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Social TV
November 5, 2015
Israel using ‘preventative arrests’ to stifle dissent
Palestinian citizens of Israel are being subject to preventive arrests as Israel attempts to silence dissent. Israeli police came to Adan Tartour’s Jaffa home at half past midnight. They pounded on the door. When the Tartours opened it, police said that they had an arrest warrant. Adan, an 18-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel who hopes…
By
Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
October 19, 2015
Poll: Most Jewish Israelis think Arab citizens support terrorism
A new poll suggests regular people are now viewing everyone in the ‘other’ ethnic-national group as a violent threat. Is that an indication of the national conflict becoming an ethnic one? Over three-quarters of Israeli Jews believe that either some (37 percent), most (33 percent) or all (8 percent) Arab Israelis support the terror of…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
October 17, 2015
October 2000: How to get Israelis to empathize with Arabs
A former editor of Israel’s flagship weekend television news program reflects on the challenge of presenting the October 2000 events — when Israeli police killed 13 unarmed Arab protesters — in a way Jewish Israelis might empathize with the pain of the country’s Palestinian population. By Anat Saragusti It was an intense meeting in a…
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+972 Magazine
October 6, 2015
‘The problem isn’t Arab protesters, it’s the society that sees them as an enemy’
Fifteen years since the events of October 2000, in which Israeli police killed 13 Arab protesters, Hassan Jabareen, head of Israel’s leading Arab civil rights organization, talks to +972 about the lessons Israel’s Palestinian population learned from the killings, the escalation of systematic discrimination since, and the vision of a democratic state of all its…
By
Noam Sheizaf
October 6, 2015
Using Palestinians as a human shield against BDS
In response to the Reykjavik City Council’s — since reversed — decision to boycott Israeli goods until the occupation is ended, Israeli politician Yair Lapid wrote an open letter to the Icelandic people titled ‘The Hypocrisy of Boycott.’ In his oped, Lapid argued that Israel should not be boycotted because doing so would harm its Arab…
By
Rami Younis
September 20, 2015
No, Bill Maher, Netanyahu’s campaign was indeed racist
Citing example after example of racism and stoking ethnic tensions in U.S. history, the HBO host finds a way to justify Netanyahu’s warning that Arabs are voting. American television personality Bill Maher addressed Israeli elections on his show a few days ago, specifically, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election-day warning that Arabs are voting en masse.…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
March 23, 2015
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