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Palestinian residents, joined by Israelis and internationals, hold a weekly protest in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, March 24, 2023. (Heather Sharona Weiss/Activestills)

Conversing as unequals: Jewish-Palestinian partnership at a crossroads

Awni Al-Mashni and I have spent years meeting with Israelis and Palestinians across the land to discuss visions for the future. Do we still have answers?

By Meron Rapoport October 23, 2024

Palestinians inspect a house that was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, April 24, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Can Palestinians imagine a future with Israelis after this war?

My grandfather remembers neighborly relations with Jews before 1948. For Palestinians today, such a prospect seems nearly impossible.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha May 27, 2024

Noam Shuster-Eliassi. (Noam Shuster-Eliassi)

PODCAST: The Jewish comedian calling out apartheid in Arabic

From Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem and New York, Noam Shuster-Eliassi is using comedy to deliver home truths about injustice in Israel-Palestine.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth February 25, 2022

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Likud party supporters at a rally in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he and his wife face legal investigations, Tel Aviv, August 9, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Building a new Mizrahi political home in Israeli politics

Mizrahim, like much of the Jewish-Israeli public, are sinking into a kind of fortress nationalism. The key to change can be found in an alliance with the Palestinians. After effectively destroying the Israeli Labor Party by leading it to an unprecedented low in the last elections, chairman Avi Gabbay announced on Thursday that he is quitting politics. Kulanu…

By Orly Noy June 13, 2019

The wall closing on Walajah houses (Oren Ziv / Activestills)

WATCH: The personal and political of segregation in Israel

Almost everywhere in Israel, Jews and Palestinians live separately. Where did the idea of segregation come from? And is it really what people want?

By Social TV March 27, 2019

A bartender pours a pint at Kamun Pub. (Steven Davidson)

One Galilee pub shows that ‘economic peace’ is not enough

At Samim Bishara’s Kamun Pub in the northern town of Ma’alot-Tarshiha, Arabs and Jews can sit alongside each other to drink beer and eat pizza. But even in what might appear to be an oasis of coexistence, fundamental inequality is inescapable. By Steven Davidson Tarshiha is technically one of the few mixed, Jewish-Arab villages in all…

By +972 Magazine June 4, 2018

Avi does the Holy Land (screenshot)

WATCH: The settlers’ secret to coexistence in the West Bank

Israeli settlers often claim the West Bank is a model of peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews. Avi traveled to the settlements to find out how things came to be so good. By +972 Magazine Staff Israeli settlers often boast that the West Bank is a model of peaceful coexistence. There is more to the…

By +972 Magazine May 3, 2018

Family of Cpt. Ziv Daos mourn during his funeral in Holon Cemetery, March 18, 2018. Daos was killed vehicle-ramming attack near the West Bank settlement Mevo Dotan. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In Israel of 2018, bereavement is a ‘lifetime achievement’

Israel awarded its most prestigious prize to Miriam Peretz, whose two sons were killed in combat in Lebanon and Gaza. Here are three Palestinians who lost their children, but won’t likely be recognized for their grief. By Orly Noy In the days of the Iran-Iraq War, before Iran sent out young — and often very young…

By Orly Noy March 19, 2018

Private security guards stand atop a home taken over by Israeli settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, February 21, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

It didn’t have to be this way in East Jerusalem’s Silwan

The neighborhood of Batan al-Hawa is today the site of major friction and tensions between Palestinian residents, Jewish settlers and the massive security presence that accompanies them. But things weren’t always like this, and they don’t have to be. By Hussam Abed Try and imagine this: Jews move into a Palestinian village and are welcomed…

By +972 Magazine January 12, 2017

The march through Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam (Dafna Lobel Lederer)

At Peace Holiday, normalcy is the best act of resistance

A new holiday was established by the binational, bilingual school kids at Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam. We painted, cooked, built puppets and celebrated. Only the roar of aircraft on their way to Gaza brought a small reminder of reality. Please mark down May 7, 2016 as the first “Peace Holiday” – a new addition to…

By Samah Salaime May 9, 2016

Members of the family standing outside one of homes that was unsealed during a visit to the homes of the Al Aju family at the time of the proposed evictions, Ramle, Israel, April 7, 2011. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

What does ‘coexistence’ look like in a segregated city?

‘Coexistence’ in one of Israel’s major mixed cities means Palestinian citizens must forget who they are, where they were born, and whom they were born to. By Zohar Elmakias Two eighth grade girls from Ramle’s Juwarish neighborhood stabbed a security guard at the central bus station last Thursday. Following the incident, I thought a lot of…

February 6, 2016

Palestinians, many of whom came from the West Bank, are seen in Haifa during the last day of the Eid al-Fitr, July 19, 2015. (photo: Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills.org)

‘But you don’t look like an Arab’

Years of failed coexistence projects between Jews and Palestinians, which were always intended to show Jews that we too are human beings, made me realize that enough is enough. By Muhammad Kabha Years of failed coexistence projects between Jews and Palestinians, which were always intended to show Jews that we too are human beings, brought…

By +972 Magazine January 31, 2016

Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrate against perceived changes to the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sakhalin, northern Israel, October 13, 2015. (Omar Sameer/Activestills.org)

The Israeli media’s outsized influence on Jewish-Arab relations

Though every fifth Israeli citizen is Arab, most Jewish Israelis only know of them and their political thoughts and identity through the Israeli media, and only two polar opposite stereotypes are portrayed in the Hebrew media: the apolitical ‘good Arab’ and the terrorism-supporting ‘bad Arab.’ By Edan Ring Despite the fact that every fifth Israeli citizen…

By +972 Magazine November 16, 2015