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More than 100 files from the 1800s are still classified in Israel’s archives
Israel recently published its catalogue of some 300,000 classified files, including thousands of documents from before the state was even founded. The very existence of the files had been kept a secret until recently. By Asaf Shalev Israel’s State Archives unceremoniously published the contents of its catalog of classified archive documents this past summer, posting…
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February 15, 2019
Palestinians are the glue that holds Ashkenazim and Mizrahim together
Sixty-nine years after the founding of the state, the hatred between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim is the greatest threat to Israeli society. Instead of properly dealing with it, all our energy is spent on sowing a collective hatred toward Palestinians. By Iris Hefets Whenever “the occupation” is mentioned, someone will invariably ask about difference between Ariel University,…
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June 11, 2017
Echoes of a Black Panther’s murder in killing of Palestinian activist
In societies conditioned to see Palestinians and blacks as terrorists and criminals, the media and public are often ready to believe state-sanctioned falsehoods about activists like Basel al-Araj and Fred Hampton. By Bram Wispelwey In the early morning hours of December 4th, 1969, Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, alongside several fellow Panthers, engaged in a…
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March 21, 2017
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Israel’s Black Panthers remind us what their struggle was about
Back in the 1970s, the deep socioeconomic divide between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel led to a massive protest movement and the rise of the Israeli Black Panthers. A newly approved official civics textbook in Israel portrays the movement as violent and criminal. We called up three Black Panthers to remind us all of the true…
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October 11, 2016
What Palestinian athletes can learn from Colin Kaepernick
Palestinian athletes can learn a thing or two from the football star’s refusal to stand during his country’s national anthem. By Abed Abu Shehadeh One can say many things about American politics, but boring they are not. We are seeing this with the presidential race and the rise of the American Right, which views the world as a…
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September 5, 2016
Former Black Panther jailed for running Mizrahi pirate radio
Former Israeli Black Panther and ‘godfather of Mizrahi music radio’ Israel Bundak goes back to prison for running a pirate radio station. But what role did racism and cultural elitism play in his unprecedented prison sentence? By Hagar Shezaf Former Black Panther and ‘godfather of Mizrahi music radio,’ Israel Bundak, began serving a 50-day prison…
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July 14, 2013
On Egypt and elsewhere: The Left’s fatal flaw
First of all, I’ve changed my mind about the point in my Saturday post that shocked people and got the most attention – that if I’d known last February that Islamists were going to democratically take over Egypt, I would have supported Mubarak instead of the protesters. Prodded to reconsider by a couple of commenters, I saw that this would have meant…
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Larry Derfner
January 24, 2012
Palestinian Freedom Rides and the US Civil Rights movement
In last week’s Freedom Rides, West Bank Palestinians demanded equal access to settler roads and buses. Like African-Americans in the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, they seek to call attention to an inherently oppressive system and demand that it be dismantled. By Ben Lorber The “Freedom Rides” held last week in the West…
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November 20, 2011
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