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Palestine solidarity protesters supporting the BDS movement, 2010. (Photo by Stephanie Law/CC, cropped)

Israel’s ‘war on BDS’ misses the point

Israel’s best-selling daily paper enlists in the war against international isolation and boycott. But ‘Yedioth,’ like many others in Israel, is ignoring the driving force behind boycott and international isolation — the occupation. By Tomer Persico Israel’s best-selling daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth and its website, Ynet, launched a special project on Monday. Under the banner, “Fighting…

By +972 Magazine June 1, 2015

Boycott Apartheid Israel sign at protest in al Ma'asara (activestills)

High Court on BDS: Somewhere between terror and Holocaust denial

The High Court decision on the ‘boycott law’ uses the word terror 11 times, likens BDS supporters to Holocaust deniers and quotes a right-wing columnist who makes it his duty to target boycott supporters. By Yael Marom The justices of Israel’s High Court upheld the controversial “boycott law” Wednesday, giving ground for individuals to sue…

By +972 Magazine April 17, 2015

IDF soldier in Hebron (photo: Activestills.org)

IDF soldiers assault Reuters journalists after mistaking them for human rights workers

Soldiers beat cameramen in Hebron after suspecting that they work for B’Tselem. Recent years have seen an organized campaign by mainstream Israeli journalists and politicians against human rights organizations in Israel and the West Bank. Reuters reported that two of its cameramen were abused by IDF soldiers in Hebron on Wednesday night. The men were stripped,…

By Noam Sheizaf December 14, 2012

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A conservative defense for Apartheid & colonialism

Some stuff you have to read with your own eyes in order to believe it. Prof. Richard Landes, who writes a pro-Israeli conservative blog named Augene Stables, is making what seems like a comparative case for Israeli colonialism. Answering a reader’s question regarding the legality of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Landes writes:…

By Noam Sheizaf March 11, 2011

Anti-racism rally in south Tel Aviv (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills.org)

Remembering a Tel Aviv childhood: when racism was wrong

By Oded Feller After the anti-immigrant demonstration in South Tel Aviv ended, I decided to hang around. I went to the market, walked down Etzel Street, watched the people on the Hagana Road, turned to Yigal Alon, and kept walking as far as Hilhel Avenue. Evening came and the avenue was calm and silent, its…

By +972 Magazine January 3, 2011

The political line of Israeli papers (a reader’s guide)

Who leans to the left and who moves to the right? which paper supports Netanyahu and who goes after him? a short guide to the subtleties of the Hebrew press Newspapers in Israel have always been of great importance. One of the first things early Zionists did in Palestine was to create their own Hebrew…

By Noam Sheizaf October 26, 2010

Pledging allegialnce to the flag in a US school, early twentieth century.

Could opposition to the ‘loyalty oath’ bring out the best in Israelis?

When America Pastor Terry Jones recently threatened to burn a Koran, which is his constitutional right, America shouted him down. Voices on all sides of the political spectrum united in eloquent protest – such as Sarah Palin, whose Facebook site said: “Book burning is bad.” (OK, she wrote a few other things). My cynical expat…

By Dahlia Scheindlin October 12, 2010

Israeli tabloids urge NIF to ditch Palestinian and leftist NGOs

Israeli Tabloids Maariv and Yisrael Hayom, which led the attack on the New Israel Fund in recent months, celebrated yesterday what they believe is a change in the NIF policy regarding its support for leftwing organizations. A page 4 story in Maariv, written by the paper’s reporter in New York, Tzah Yoked, has declared that…

By Noam Sheizaf September 20, 2010