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Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 23, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers

Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.

By Hila Amit January 7, 2026

A pro-Palestine demonstration in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin, October 28, 2023.

Germany moves to deport four foreign residents for pro-Palestine activism

The four slated for deportation have not been convicted of any crime but are alleged to have participated in protests against Israel's assault on Gaza.

By Hanno Hauenstein April 1, 2025

Screening of ‘No Other Land’ in At-Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, March 14, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

In Masafer Yatta, our camera can be stronger than the bulldozer

At a screening in At-Tuwani, we realized our film isn’t just sharing our story with the world, but showing our people how we are fighting for change.

By Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini March 29, 2024

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A Palestine solidarity demonstration in the Potsdamer Platz area, Berlin, October 15, 2023. The police suppressed the demonstration shortly after authorizing it.

The spiraling absurdity of Germany’s pro-Israel fanaticism

As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state's liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves.

By Michael Sappir March 21, 2024

Berlin police observe a Palestinian protest in Berlin, April 11, 2023. (Courtesy Samidoun)

‘Everyone should be alarmed’: Berlin police ban Palestinian demo for prisoners

A year after police in the German capital banned all Nakba Day protests, Palestinian activists have again been barred from assembling.

By Hebh Jamal May 4, 2023

Rasha Nahas performing in a show for her new album 'Amrat' at Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, January 2023. (Laura Müller)

‘What is this place I long for?’ A Palestinian musician’s healing journey

Rasha Nahas speaks to +972 about opening emotional wounds on her new Arabic album, the 'disarming' power of music, and navigating her identity between Haifa and Berlin.

By Vera Sajrawi February 2, 2023

Palestinians and supporters demonstrate against then-U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Berlin, Germany, December 10, 2017. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

Germany just took a drastic step toward criminalizing Palestine activism

A new report by ministers and senators seeks to lay the legal basis for outlawing Palestinian groups, and even banning maps of historic Palestine.

By Hebh Jamal December 21, 2022

Berlin police arrest a Palestinian protester during a Nakba Day flash mob, after banning all commemorations of the day in the city, May 15, 2022. (@thequestionislysh)

Palestinians in Germany fear new level of repression after Nakba Day crackdown

Claiming to fight antisemitism, Berlin police arrested 170 people for carrying flags and keffiyehs during a flash mob marking Palestinians' mass expulsion.

By Hebh Jamal May 21, 2022

Remains of the Berlin Wall. October 26, 2012. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

How Berlin became the ‘capital city of Arab exile’

The Arab sociologist Amro Ali has illuminated Germany’s capital city as the center of an intellectual and artistic renaissance, fueled by Arab exiles from the authoritarian crackdowns that followed the 2011 uprisings. By Mati Shemoelof Berlin has become a magnet for political exiles from the Middle East in the years since the failed 2011 uprisings…

By +972 Magazine October 17, 2019

Activists from the 'International Block', hold a BDS sign, during the annual May Day demonstration, Berlin, Germany, May 1, 2017. (Activestills.org)

In Germany, the anti-BDS zeitgeist has taken over

The growing attacks on the BDS movement in Germany, which led to the resignation of the director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum last week, are a dangerous sign that critics of Israeli policy should be afraid for their futures. It has been a month since the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, passed a symbolic, non-binding resolution designating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement…

By Mairav Zonszein June 20, 2019

Demonstrators hold signs outside a Berlin courthouse on the opening day of the trial of three BDS activists charged with assault for interrupting an Israeli MK during a lecture in 2017, March 4 2019. (Magda Stefanenco)

Germany puts BDS activists on trial for disrupting Israeli MK

Two Israelis and a Palestinian activist are standing trial for interrupting a talk by Israeli member of Knesset Aliza Lavie at a Berlin university in 2017. Three BDS activists, two Israelis and a Palestinian, are on trial in Germany after being charged with assault and trespassing during a lecture by an Israeli member of Knesset in June 2017. The…

By Oren Ziv March 11, 2019

Israelis protesting in Tel Aviv in demand social justice, summer 2011. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

How the social protests in Israel broke down national borders

While trying to plan a new life abroad following the failure of the 2011 social protests, Regev Contes uncovers a family secret that radically alters his Israeli Jewish identity. By Mati Shemoelof Regev Contes’ new documentary film, “Goodbye Adolf,” which recently aired on Israel’s Channel 1, is full of courage and honesty. (Warning: this article includes…

By +972 Magazine December 15, 2016

People walk by a mural depicting a combination of the Israeli and German flag on the Berlin wall, March 13, 2016. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Are litmus tests on culture spreading from Israel to Berlin?

Pro-Israel journalists and politicians in Germany target a Palestinian arts and culture festival, its curators and the venue hosting it. By Inna Michaeli A celebration of Palestinian arts and culture in the city of Berlin has sent a few German journalists and local politicians over the edge. “After the Last Sky,” a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary and international…

By +972 Magazine October 25, 2016