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Refugee children get ready to for bed at the transit camp on the Hungarian-Austrian border. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Searching for a way into Europe: A photo dispatch from Hungary

One by one, day by day, Europe is closing its gates to refugees desperately searching for a way in. Confused, exhausted and frightened, at times they don’t even know what country they are in. Two Activestills photographers follow refugees as they make their way toward Germany. Photos and text by Keren Manor & Mareike Lauken /…

By Activestills September 19, 2015

Palestinians wait at the Allenby bridge border crossing. (By Bassam Almohor)

Leaving Palestine: ‘Give ’em something to talk about’

A fleeting moment of romance in grueling border terminal that devours you alive — and yet you don’t die. A day at the Allenby border crossing. (Read part one of this series here.) By Bassam Almohor “Saqallah ala ayyam zaman (I long for the old times) when we used to travel all over el blad…

By +972 Magazine May 30, 2014

The separation wall in Walajah (Photo: Haggai Matar)

Poll: 23% of Jewish Israelis support apartheid, 13% support status quo

Survey finds that majority of Jewish Israelis think the country should unilaterally determine its borders along the route of the West Bank separation barrier. One-third support either annexing the West Bank without giving Palestinians civil rights, or perpetuating the status quo — both of which are apartheid. According to a poll* released Sunday, a majority…

By Mairav Zonszein April 14, 2013

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American diplomat Dennis Ross (Nrbelex/ CC-BY 2.5)

Dennis Ross: Netanyahu’s attorney in Washington

Dennis Ross presents a framework for renewing the peace process, which he apparently lifted directly from the Israeli PM’s hard disk – including de facto recognition of permanent Israeli control over eight percent of the West Bank. Veteran U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross had a full page op-ed in The New York Times this weekend, in which he presents a 14-step program…

By Noam Sheizaf March 4, 2013

The fence on the Egypt-Israel border (Yuval Ben-Ami)

Eritrean asylum seekers trapped on Israel-Egypt border for 7th straight day

A group of some 20 Eritreans has been trapped for seven days between the Israeli and Egyptian fences in Sinai. Until Wednesday, soldiers were ordered to give them some water but no food. Activists who went there over the last several days were prevented from reaching the asylum seekers by soldiers. UPDATE: A delegation from…

By Haggai Matar September 5, 2012

Netanyahu’s lie re: “indefensible” 1967 borders

When Netanyahu says the 1967 borders are “indefensible”, this does not mean Israel must seek to avoid conceding too much West Bank land. It means Israel cannot make any concessions. Last week, in response to Obama’s speech, Netanyahu argued that for Israel, the borders that existed before the 1967 occupation are “indefensible”. He repeated the…

By Roi Maor May 21, 2011

Between the Lines (7 Oct): Disloyalty to the Jewish democracy

Headlines: Disloyalty to Judaism and Democracy Netanyahu has decided to support a proposed bill, which would require new citizens to proclaim their allegiance not just to Israel, as they are required to do right now, but specifically to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. The law would apply only to non-Jews, and all outlets…

By Roi Maor October 7, 2010

Report from beyond the green line: children and soldiers

“Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.” -Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth The final Friday of Ramadan saw a round of demonstrations against the occupation and the Separation wall throughout the…

By Joseph Dana September 5, 2010