colonialism

New immigrants to Israel living in the southern town of Dimona study Hebrew at a state-sponsored ulpan, January 12, 1955. (Moshe Pridan/GPO)

Can Hebrew be decolonized?

For many, the language is indelibly linked to Zionism and now forever tainted by genocide. But it was not always so — and a growing movement of Palestinians and anti-Zionist Jews are attempting to reclaim it.

By Raphael Mimoun July 2, 2026

Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Port Said, Nov. 5, 1956. (Fleet Air Arm official photographer/Imperial War Museums)

Israel’s last war alongside an imperial power backfired. This one could, too

For the first time since 1956, Israel is fighting with a Western hegemon for regime change in a war whose political repercussions are far from certain.

By Meron Rapoport March 5, 2026

Tsedek! member Simon Assoun. (Courtesy)

For these French Jews, anti-racism cannot succeed without anti-Zionism

Facing a largely right-wing and Zionist French-Jewish community, Tsedek! is advocating a decolonial vision to combat state racism at home and in Israel-Palestine.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth August 14, 2023

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Palestinians wait to cross Qalandiya checkpoint on their way from the occupied West Bank to Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, to take part in Friday prayers during Ramadan, April 29, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

How Israeli apartheid spread from inside the Green Line to the West Bank

A new report examines how, according to Adalah Legal Director Suhad Bishara, Israel is expanding Jewish territorial, spatial, and political supremacy.

By Orly Noy June 29, 2023

A still from "Farha," the new film from director Darin J. Sallam. (Talebox)

One Palestinian film and the colonizer’s endless anxiety

‘Farha’ holds up a mirror to Israelis and their victimless narrative about the 1948 war — and they don't like what they see.

By Shaul Magid February 2, 2023

Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir arrives to the opening session of the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ben Gvir’s dream ministry brings Kahane’s vision one step closer

With the portfolio he’s craved, the far-right lawmaker can accelerate Israel’s colonial violence against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth November 30, 2022

Medical team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem, August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A medical school in the service of colonialism

Ariel University's new medicine faculty is part of a wider effort to normalize illegal settlements — and Israel's national medical body is defending it.

By Osama Tanous and Ghada Majadli March 3, 2022

A journalist reviews her training guide during photojournalism training at the Directorate of Women's Affairs building in Farah City, Afghanistan, February 10, 2013. (Josh Ives/U.S. Navy)

Women are not an excuse for colonial intervention

The United States still frames its military occupation of Afghanistan as a force for women's rights. It is not the first empire to make this misleading claim.

By Helena Zeweri September 28, 2021

Hadar Cohen's parents in the Old City of Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Hadar Cohen)

Zionism has no space for an Arab Jew like me

The State of Israel conditioned us to see the intersection of 'Jewish' and 'Arab' as impossible — even though my family held that identity for generations.

By Hadar Cohen September 9, 2021

Untitled, from the series 'Islam Played the Blues' by Toufic Beyhum. (www.tbeyhumphotos.com)

A case of the Palestinian blues

Recording under quarantine, a musical trio gives a classic blues song an Arabic twist, exploring new depths for Black-Palestinian solidarity.

By Henriette Chacar September 3, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition, in Tel Aviv, attended by thousands of leading multi-national corporates, SMB's, start-ups, private and corporate investors, venture capital firms, experts and clients. January 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli colonialism goes digital

Israel's collaboration with tech companies has turned social media from a tool of free political speech to a means of censoring and repressing Palestinians.

By Anwar Mhajne May 25, 2021

Israeli Police arrest a Bedouin protester during a demonstration against the Prawer Plan, Hura, Naqab Desert, November 30, 2013. (Activestills)

A pat on the back for condemning anti-Arab racism

A video of a popular children's entertainer mocking Bedouin children was widely condemned by Israeli society. But does the singling out of one racist prevent a real reckoning?

By Edo Konrad July 15, 2020

Black Lives Matter protesters in London gather following the police shootings of Philando Castile and Alon Sterling in the United States, July 8, 2016. (Alisdare Hickson/CC BY-NC 2.0)

Yes, the UK also has a white supremacy problem

There is a reason George Floyd's murder resonated with Black British people: we are all too familiar with the UK's institutional racism and police brutality.

By Nadine Batchelor-Hunt June 21, 2020