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View of Haifa lower town and Mt. Carmel with Dan Carmel Hotel on top, June 3, 1963. (Fritz Cohen/GPO)

Haifa’s lost Palestinian bourgeoisie

The story of the Boutagy family exemplifies how urban, middle-class Palestinians struggled to maintain their status in Israel after the Nakba.

By Himmat Zoubi January 6, 2022

A model of the new Palestinian city of Rawabi is displayed at the center of the Rawabi project site, Feb. 23, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

The Palestinian city that mimics its colonizers

The West Bank city of Rawabi illustrates how Palestinian capitalists are trying — and failing — to form a middle class by mirroring Israel's neoliberal policies.

By Matan Kaminer August 29, 2021

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend the Jewish Moroccan Mimouna celebrations, Or Akiva, April 21, 2014. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

As a Mizrahi, I know identity politics is not enough

I was supposed to be floating above the Dubai Marina looking on as my dream of regional peace came true. But these deals serve the elites, not the people.

By Khen Elmaleh January 8, 2021

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Demolished structures seen in Cape Town's Marikana community, after the city's Anti-Land Invasion Unit began demolishing structures erected on a plot of land by the Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement, January 9, 2014 (Shachaf Polakow/Activestills.org)

The Dispossessed: Palestine’s forgotten lesson from post-apartheid South Africa

Those looking to South Africa as a blueprint for the struggle against Israeli apartheid are doing a disservice by ignoring how racial capitalism has sustained inequality and oppression 30 years on.

By Joseph Dana November 19, 2020

Israeli Border Police officers wear face masks during clashes with Palestinian protesters in Jabal Al-Arma, near the town of Beita, West Bank, March 11, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel’s real coronavirus test lies in freeing Palestinians from its grip

The solidarity we demonstrate with Palestinians today will determine what kind of country we live in when the pandemic is over.

By Avner Gvaryahu April 5, 2020

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. (Chris McAndrew/CC BY 3.0)

Yes, Corbynism poses a threat — but not to Britain’s Jews

Smearing Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite has become a popular hobby among members of the British establishment — perhaps because what he stands for is a direct threat to their ideological and economic interests. By Matan Kaminer Last week, Haaretz columnist Anshel Pfeffer accused UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of being both anti-Semitic and stupid. He is wrong…

By +972 Magazine July 30, 2018

Sweatshop. (illustrative photo: marissaorton/CC BY-SA 2.0)

A proposal: A simple, effective mechanism to improve the world, one penny at a time

Corporations run the world. It’s time we run the corporations. By Paula Schmitt There’s a passage in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs that is emblematic of the darkness faced by consumers with any social concern. Apple is being visited by Danielle Mitterrand, the wife of the then French president, and while Jobs keeps force-feeding…

By +972 Magazine March 29, 2014

Demonstrators march during the International Worker's Day protest in the center of Tel Aviv May 1, 2013. (Photo by: Shiraz Grinbaum/ Activestills.org)

From settler reprisals to May Day marches: A week in photos April 25 – May 1

This week: May Day marches from Tel Aviv to Boston, reprisals for the stabbing death of a settler by a Palestinian, protests against domestic violence, demonstrations against settlement expansion, celebrations for hunger striker Samer Issawi, and demolitions of Palestinian properties continue.

By Activestills May 2, 2013

Ending the occupation won’t save (most) Israelis money

Not only is he a liar and war-mongerer, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ruins economies, too! His corporate capitalism will make sure Israelis won’t see the economic fruits of ending the occupation (not that it will ever happen on his watch, anyway…) Bibiconomy I swear to God, if I see one more person write that Israelis…

By Ami Kaufman November 9, 2011

J14: No need to bring up the occupation – it’s the capitalism, stupid!

With the growing number of calls for J14 to address the “elephant in the room” that apparently no one is willing to talk about – the occupation (shhh!), it’s important to understand something: there is no elephant Lately there have been calls on the Left, including here on +972, for the #J14 movement to talk…

By Ami Kaufman August 14, 2011

Tents city camp, Jaffa, Israel, 7/8/2011 (ActiveStills)

Tent protests resurrect healthy Israeli social dynamics

Recent weeks have shown a spectacular change in our sense of community, a return to forgotten values and the introduction of new ones. Will any of this last? In 1989, my father was appointed Israel Government Radio’s correspondent in Washington DC, and my family left for a three year sojourn in America. It was very…

By Yuval Ben-Ami August 12, 2011

Demonstrators at the massive housing/social protest rally wait for the parade outside McDonald's. 30 July, 2011 (Photo: Dahlia Scheindin)

Social/housing protesters won’t defeat capitalism

My friend Boaz Gaon wrote a beautiful longing prayer for the day after the citizen uprising around the country, outlining a progressive’s fantasy (posted on the Hebrew women-issues web-zine Saloona). In his day-after scenario, cultural and intellectual professions will earn dignified salaries, the money-based professions will be out of fashion – non-materialism will prevail: An…

By Dahlia Scheindlin August 3, 2011

Fighting the collapse of social services in Israel

Official government statistics point to an all-time peak in the country’s social gap. It’s time Israelis stand up for their rights By Tali Nir Israelis do not like to be taken for suckers or fools. It is somehow imprinted in our national DNA. Nevertheless, when we look back at what has happened to our country…

By +972 Magazine December 9, 2010