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Members of the Armenian community of Jerusalem hold signs and Armenian flags as they protest in front of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry against Israel's weapon sales to Azerbaijan, April 14, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh rise, Israel must halt arms sales to Azerbaijan

With fighting over the region renewed between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Israel should at the very least avoid contributing to the escalation.

By Eitay Mack October 9, 2020

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and former mayor of Haifa Yona Yahav pose with Indian soldiers during a ceremony for Indian soldiers who fought in the First World War, at the British cemetery in Haifa, July 6, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/GPO)

Israeli weapons are heading for the East — with no concern for human rights

We don't know all the countries Israel's secretive arms industry is targeting for future sales. What we do know is that the people of Myanmar, Kashmir, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Palestine, and others will pay the price.

By Sahar Vardi December 16, 2019

Anti-occupation activist Nasser Nawaj’ah in a Jerusalem court. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

When criticism of occupation becomes ‘subversion’

The political arrests of anti-occupation activists is just the latest step in the Right’s war against political dissidents. The next stage is anybody’s guess. By Itay Mack The arrest of three anti-occupation activists, Ezra Nawi, Guy Butavia, and Nasser Nawajah, and the refusal to let them meet with their attorneys, did not take place as…

By +972 Magazine January 21, 2016

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Palestinian and Jewish men speak at protest against settler violence in Jaffa. December 5, 2008 (Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

One or two states, Israelis and Palestinians are bound together

Whether the conflict here is resolved through one, two, three or ten states, Israel will still never be homogenous. Ethnic homogeneity is a nasty and dangerous sham. As the referendum over the future of Scotland approaches, poll numbers for the “YES” (pro-independence) have suddenly spiked. Many Brits are now panicking that Scots may really decide they are not…

By Dahlia Scheindlin September 9, 2014

The cure to Islamophobia: Azerbaijan

“I’m not a feminist” says Elmira, and takes a sip from her pint of Turkish beer. “I mean, I do believe that women should have all the rights, but not that men should be weakened.” We’re at the Otto, a bar in downtown Baku that caters mostly to foreigners. Elmira, though an alumnus of the…

By Yuval Ben-Ami February 27, 2011