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A century after its founding, the Israeli Communist Party is at a crossroads
For 100 years, Maki has been the leading force for Jewish-Palestinian equality in Israeli politics, yet it has failed to unite Arab and Jewish workers into a viable movement. Was it doomed from the start?
By
Joel Beinin
July 28, 2023
No, Israel’s apartheid doesn’t stop at the Green Line
The fall of the Bennett government illustrates that maintaining Jewish supremacy overrides all other considerations in Israeli politics.
By
Orly Noy
June 27, 2022
Ayman Odeh is right: Why should Palestinians serve in the occupier’s police?
Despite Israeli outrage, it is legitimate for the Joint List leader to ask his people not to be part of an apparatus that brutally oppresses other Palestinians.
By
Orly Noy
April 13, 2022
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Ahmad Tibi has a plan to unseat Netanyahu, but it means leaving his Palestinian partners
Ahmad Tibi’s recent announcement that he would split from the Joint List has rattled Palestinian citizens. In an interview, he speaks about the successes and failures of the list, why his party would be better off alone, and why he may join forces with Israel’s centrist leaders. By Meron Rapoport Four years after it was established, the Joint List, which succeeded in…
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State closes case on officers who killed Bedouin man in Umm al-Hiran
State attorney rules the police who shot and killed Yacob al-Qi’an in January 2017 did not commit a crime, says no conclusive evidence incident was a terror attack. By +972 Magazine Staff Israel’s State Attorney Shai Nitzan ruled Tuesday that the police officers who shot to death Yaqub Musa Abu al-Qi’an in the unrecognized Bedouin…
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May 1, 2018
In Israel of 2018, bereavement is a ‘lifetime achievement’
Israel awarded its most prestigious prize to Miriam Peretz, whose two sons were killed in combat in Lebanon and Gaza. Here are three Palestinians who lost their children, but won’t likely be recognized for their grief. By Orly Noy In the days of the Iran-Iraq War, before Iran sent out young — and often very young…
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Orly Noy
March 19, 2018
New footage proves police assaulted Arab MK at deadly home demolition
Police initially denied using force against Ayman Odeh, who was shot in the head and back with sponge-tipped bullets moments after a Bedouin man and a police officer were killed in a tragic incident. Newly released footage shows Israeli police assaulting Palestinian member of Knesset Ayman Odeh at a home demolition during which one Bedouin…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
November 22, 2017
The Israeli Left must show up to protest 50 years of occupation
After 50 years of a racist military regime, it’s time for the Israeli Left to go out and protest en masse — and, in the face of such an urgent task, to overlook our differences. Things can sometimes be very simple. Read, for example, the following invitation to the anti-occupation protest taking place in Tel…
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Haggai Matar
May 26, 2017
Reconstruction of Umm al-Hiran killings disproves car-ramming claims
An investigative team led by Forensic Architecture and Activestills proves, through a reenactment and visual analyses of footage of the incident, that the deaths of a Bedouin teacher and an Israeli policeman in Umm al-Hiran in January were not the result of a car-ramming attack. By Yael Marom The results of a police investigation into…
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May 17, 2017
A May Day surprise for Palestinian workers at an Israeli checkpoint
Members of Knesset and labor activists from Hadash hand out flowers and workers’ rights pamphlets to Palestinian laborers as they exit an Israeli military checkpoint. Palestinian workers coming into Israel through the IDF’s Eyal checkpoint Thursday morning probably didn’t expect to be handed flowers by members of Knesset. But that’s exactly what happened at 5…
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Haggai Matar
April 27, 2017
Israeli cafe orders employees to stop speaking Arabic on the job
A branch of Aroma Espresso Bar in central Israel tells its Arab workers that speaking their mother-tongue is offensive to some of the customers. By Yael Marom A branch of “Aroma Espresso Bar,” one of Israel’s most popular coffee chains, told its Arab workers last week that they are no longer allowed to speak Arabic at…
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April 1, 2017
PHOTOS: Thousands of Palestinians march to commemorate Land Day
Thousands march across Israel and the occupied territories to commemorate 41 years since security forces shot dead six Palestinians for protesting land expropriations. Hundreds of Palestinians took part in marches across Israel on Wednesday and Thursday to mark “Land Day,” commemorating the six Palestinian citizens killed by Israeli forces in 1976. The events began on Wednesday in a torch-lit march…
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Activestills
March 30, 2017
Could a Palestinian politician best represent American Jewish values?
Progressive American Jews may be willing to stand alongside American Muslims, but are they ready to demonstrate the same solidarity for Arab citizens of Israel? Ayman Odeh, the head of the Joint List, is a test case for where ‘pro-peace’ Jews draw the line. Progressive American Jews have had a hard time in recent years finding…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 28, 2017
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