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People examine arms at ISDEF 2022, Tel Aviv, March 21, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel masked its arms deals to repressive regimes for decades. Here’s how

For most of its existence, the state has continued selling weapons and other military wares to rogue governments, even after claiming to have stopped.

By Eitay Mack June 15, 2023

The office of the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees following an Israeli army raid, Ramallah, West Bank, August 18, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Israel storms Palestinian NGO offices after months-long failure to discredit them

Seven NGOs denounce raids as message of impunity against Palestinians and foreign governments, after army seizes equipment and welds office doors shut.

By Oren Ziv August 18, 2022

Israeli soldiers of the operational unit 8200 training in the field, Sep 11, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

‘We violated people’s privacy for a living’: How Israel’s cyber army went corporate

The blurred line between the military and private sector in Israel has allowed dangerous cyber weapons like NSO's spyware to flourish worldwide.

By Sophia Goodfriend November 23, 2021

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Juana Ruiz Rishmawi (center) being escorted by Israeli guards to the military court in Ofer Military Prison., Nov. 10, 2021.(Oren Ziv)

Israel boasts new ‘proof’ of NGO terror ties — by getting the facts wrong

Israel celebrated the conviction of Juana Ruiz Rishmawi as evidence linking Palestinian rights groups to 'terrorists.' That's not exactly what happened.

By Oren Ziv November 11, 2021

A Rhodesian soldier questioning villagers near the border of Botswana in the fall of 1977. (J. Ross Baughman)

When Israel supported boycotts against a white supremacist regime

Israel not only boycotted Rhodesia in the 1960s, it fully backed the armed liberation movement that would eventually overthrow its white-led regime.

By Eitay Mack March 10, 2021

Members of the Armenian community of Jerusalem hold signs and Armenian flags as they protest in front of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry against Israel's weapon sales to Azerbaijan, April 14, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh rise, Israel must halt arms sales to Azerbaijan

With fighting over the region renewed between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Israel should at the very least avoid contributing to the escalation.

By Eitay Mack October 9, 2020

A soldier of the Azov Battalion mans a heavy machine gun on a patrol near Mariupol, Ukraine. (Carl Ridderstråle/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Is Israel trying to hide arms exports to neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine?

Human rights activists are hoping to use the courts to expose Israeli arms exports and security know-how to neo-Nazi militias fighting in Ukraine. By Shuki Taussig Is Israel knowingly selling weapons to neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine? A group of Israeli human rights activists filed a petition to the Tel Aviv District Court last June to demand the government…

By The Seventh Eye June 19, 2019

Palestinians and Israelis take part in the yearly alternative Memorial Day service organized by Combatants for Peace in 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israeli government bars Palestinians from joint memorial ceremony

The Israeli Defense Ministry canceled all permits for Palestinian peace activists from the West Bank to attend a joint ceremony on the eve of Memorial Day. For the first time in the 12 years since its founding, Sunday’s joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony will take place in Tel Aviv without Palestinian peace activists. In previous years…

By Haggai Matar April 30, 2017

Israeli army medics carry away a young Palestinian stone thrower who was shot in the leg by undercover Israeli troops on the outskirts of Ramallah. A tourniquet can be seen on his leg where he was shot, October 7, 2015. (Muhannad Saleem/Activestills.org)

Who pays when Palestinians are harmed by Israeli forces?

Over the past 20 years, Israel has assembled an entire system to ensure it won’t have to pay compensation to Palestinians harmed by security forces in the occupied territories. It is almost impossible for Palestinians to file successful civil suits against the Israeli military for harm caused to them in the occupied territories, thereby leaving them…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man March 8, 2017

Avigdor Lieberman (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)

Why I’m not afraid of Avigdor Liberman

My dear leftists, there’s really no reason to ask the last person to leave Israel to turn out the lights, as many of you have done over the last 48 hours. Most chances are that things will remain just as bad as they are – which is, in itself, hardly a reason to rejoice. By…

By +972 Magazine May 21, 2016

Protest against the occupation outside Defense Ministry. (YouTube screenshot)

WATCH: Israelis say ‘enough’ to violence and occupation

Since the beginning of October, more than 120 people — Palestinians and Israelis — have lost their lives, while hundreds of others have been wounded in the latest round of violence. Lives on both sides are cut short, entire families are torn apart, and fear and hatred reign in the streets. Dozens of Israeli activists…

By Social TV December 21, 2015

Illustrative photo of Israelis taking a shooting class in a Jerusalem gun shop, October 15, 2015. A number of Israeli leaders have called on citizens to arm themselves in response to a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks, and the owner of this shop reported an increase in demand for personal weapons. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

More guns will not make Israelis any safer

The immediate solution to every threat or conflict in Israel is to give more weapons to civilians, which often end up killing innocents ad disproportionately affects women. By Tanya Rubinstein These days, and actually most of the time, violence in the streets is making headlines on a near-daily basis. The dangers of citizens arming themselves,…

By +972 Magazine November 25, 2015

Palestinian demonstrators hold a mock wedding during a nonviolent demonstration in the West Bank village Al-Ma'asara, July 31, 2009. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel preventing Gaza woman from attending her own wedding

According to the Israeli army, Palestinians from Gaza can attend a relative’s wedding — just not their own. The Israeli army is denying a 23-year-old Palestinian woman from traveling through Israel to reach her own wedding ceremony in Jordan. According to Israeli human rights group Gisha, the petitioner has been engaged to her fiancé —…

By Edo Konrad November 19, 2015