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Israelis attend a rally calling for action against the climate crisis and the ecological crisis at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, July 26, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel’s climate justice movement has a colonialism problem

Climate justice movements worldwide consider anti-racism and ending oppression integral to their struggle. So why aren't Israeli environment activists speaking up for Palestinians?

By Mor Gilboa September 11, 2020

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks in the Israeli parliament after presenting the 35th government of Israel to the Knesset, May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

A very dangerous government

The Netanyahu-Gantz coalition threatens to harm the poorest Israelis, maintain the occupation, and ignore gender violence and climate disaster.

By Haggai Matar May 18, 2020

A Palestinian woman carries balloons during a peace march along the West Bank’s major north-south artery, Highway 60, March 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Even in 2020, there’s still cause for hope in Israel-Palestine

These are dark times politically. But amid the gloom, there are real sources of hope in Israel-Palestine — not least all the people fighting to make it a better place.

By Haggai Matar January 2, 2020

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Hundreds of American Jews protest against ICE raids at an Amazon store in New York City, August 11, 2019. (Gili Getz)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2019

From climate catastrophe in Israel-Palestine to the crackdown in Kashmir to the dark past and present of Israeli arms exports — here are our most popular articles from the last year.

By +972 Magazine December 24, 2019

Naomi Klein. (Photo: Troy Page/Truthout)

WATCH: Naomi Klein talks climate justice, Palestine, and white supremacy

'If we look to Israel-Palestine, we see a really terrifying example of how to lose your humanity, how to fail to share land, and the monstrousness it requires to fail to share.'

By Edo Konrad December 8, 2019

Members of the 'Red Brigade' demonstrate outside the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, demanding Israeli corporations cease profiting off of the climate crisis, October 7, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Climate activists block Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to protest gov’t inaction

Activists from Extinction Rebellion glue themselves to the doors of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to protest Israeli corporations profiting from global warming. Dozens of Israeli climate activists blocked the entrance to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Monday morning to demand that financial institutions move toward green and sustainable investments. They called upon the Israeli government to join…

By Oren Ziv October 7, 2019

Protesters take part in a demonstration in Tel Aviv as part of the global climate strike, September 27, 2019. (Oren Ziv)

PHOTOS: Thousands protest in Tel Aviv as part of Global Climate Strike

Thousands of Israelis march through central Tel Aviv demanding the government join the U.K., Ireland, France, and Canada in declaring a climate emergency. By Haggai Matar and Oren Ziv Thousands of people marched in central Tel Aviv as part of the global climate strike on Friday, demanding that the government declare a climate emergency. The…

By Haggai Matar September 27, 2019

Israelis walk across the light rail tracks in Jerusalem, September 8, 2015, as a sand storm hits Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From heat waves to ‘eco-apartheid’: Climate change in Israel-Palestine

While Israel's nascent climate justice movement tries to get the public's attention, Palestinians under occupation remain the most vulnerable to the dangerous effects of climate change.

By Matan Kaminer, Basma Fahoum and Edo Konrad August 8, 2019

Palestinians pass through the Israeli army checkpoint at Qalandiya, March 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

50 things that have been around for less time than the occupation

How much has the world changed since Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory began in 1967? The occupation, as we are all too well aware, is about to turn 50. It’s difficult to grasp just how significant a period of time five decades is — especially when we’re trying to imagine the durability of a state of…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 21, 2017

President Peres at the UN Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen. (Photo: GPO)

Reducing greenhouse gas won’t change a thing for Israel’s citizens

If Israel’s government is concerned with climate change and its consequences, it must focus less on reducing the country’s inconsequential greenhouse gas emissions, and more on preparing for the difficulties ahead. By Yossi Loss (translated from Hebrew by Maya Naveh) In Israel’s latest budget plan, the item dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions has been cancelled, arousing…

By Haokets May 25, 2013