climate change

Displaced Palestinians near the sea in Deir al-Balah, June 20, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe

Toxic waste, water-borne diseases, vast carbon emissions: Dr. Mariam Abd El Hay describes the myriad harms of Israel’s assault to the region’s ecosystems.

By Nathalie Rozanes September 5, 2024

Israeli settlers seen invading the Bedouin Palestinian community of Ein al-Rashash with their herd and harassing its residents, West Bank, August 22, 2023. (Omri Eran Vardi/Activestills)

Settler violence is fueling the effects of climate breakdown on Palestinians

Desertification and water scarcity have become immediate dangers to villages like Khirbet ar-Ratheem — and Israeli settlers are the primary culprit.

By Natasha Westheimer October 5, 2023

Mustafa Hammad, Farkha's mayor, on the farm by his house, January 10, 2023. (Ahmad Al-Bazz)

The Palestinian ecovillage putting grassroots democracy into action

In the West Bank community of Farkha, a young communist leadership is championing feminism, sustainability, and care for elders.

By Fatima AbdulKarim January 10, 2023

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University of Wisconsin-Madison students and the Overpass Light Brigade protest fossil fuels outside UW's Bascom Hall, April 5, 2014. (Joe Brusky/CC BY-NC 2.0)

To crush climate action, fossil fuel advocates are copying anti-BDS laws

US conservatives are banning boycotts of oil and gas companies, using anti-BDS legislation as a model. Experts warn the tactic will spread even further.

By Abe Asher March 21, 2022

A week after torrential rain caused severe flooding, Palestinians use fishing boats to assist residents in retrieving belongings from their homes in the Al-Nafaq section of Gaza City, December 18, 2013. (Ryan Roderick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Gaza’s race against climate breakdown

Amid a deepening climate crisis, Palestinians in Gaza are fighting to salvage their land and livelihoods. But repeated bombardments and an unrelenting blockade are devastating efforts to build climate resilience.

By Khalil Abu Yahia, Natasha Westheimer and Mor Gilboa January 13, 2022

One Climate members Mor Gilboa (left), Muna Shaheen (center), and Ya'ara Peretz (right). (Oren Ziv)

‘We want to make the climate movement in Israel-Palestine much more political’

For the Palestinian and Israeli activists of One Climate, the only way to fight climate breakdown is to tie it with the struggle against the occupation.

By Judith Sudilovsky July 12, 2021

A goat grazing on the hills outside the village of Tuba in the West Bank, while Israeli soldiers demand a Palestinian shepherd and his herd return home, Jan. 30, 2021. (Natasha Westheimer)

Climate breakdown and occupation are dismantling the lives of Palestinian shepherds

A settlement in the South Hebron Hills illustrates how the Israeli occupation and the climate crisis are destroying Palestinian land and livelihoods.

By Natasha Westheimer April 21, 2021

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Base Commander Brigadier General Peleg Niago, during a visit to the Air Force base in Tel Nof to meet with foreign air force commanders, May 23, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Oil, guns, and gas: How Gulf money will fuel Israel’s arms industry

Israel and its new Arab allies are striking major deals to advance fossil fuel projects — endangering the region's stability and the global climate.

By Sahar Vardi December 8, 2020

Israeli climate and human rights activists chain themselves to the entrance of HeidelbergCement quarry in the occupied West Bank to protest a government plan to expand the quarry and build an industrial zone nearby, November 22, 2020. (Oren Ziv)

Eight climate activists arrested in protest against new West Bank industrial zone

Climate justice and human rights activists chain themselves to entrance of Israeli quarry to protest the theft of Palestinian land and destruction of local ecology.

By Oren Ziv November 22, 2020

A Palestinian youth wearing a mask used by computer hackers who attacked a number of Israeli websites, seen backdropped by the Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem's Old City. April 8 2013. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Silicon Valley takes on the pro-Palestine left

Zoom's cancellation of an event with Leila Khaled illustrates tech companies' deference to right-wing, pro-Israel demands. But there are ways to fight back.

By Amitai Ben-Abba October 25, 2020

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