demographic threat

Israeli police surround and destroy the mosque in Umm Al-Hiran, Nov. 14, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

The entire history of Zionism’s injustices, in one Bedouin village

The destruction of Umm Al-Hiran exemplifies the Zionist view of Palestinians as impermanent; moveable chess pieces in a game of demographic engineering.

By Orly Noy November 20, 2024

Jewish men celebrate Jerusalem Day in Jerusalem, marking the 52nd anniversary of Israel's capture of Arab East Jerusalem in the Six Day War of 1967. June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Annexation is not just about stealing land — it’s about expelling Palestinians

What the international community views as an illegal move under occupation is in fact another stage in Israel's century-long settler colonial project.

By Ahmad Al-Bazz May 19, 2020

Palestinians cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside of the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 17, 2016 (Photo by Flash90).

Israel is making it impossible for foreign nationals to live in the West Bank

The new policy has devastating consequences, not only on family life in the occupied territories, but also for the Palestinian economy. By Yotam Ben-Hillel Over the past year and a half, Israel has pursued a policy which aims to keep foreign nationals out of the West Bank. This policy affects everyone: partners of Palestinian residents of…

By +972 Magazine August 17, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the separation wall near Tarqumiya in the West Bank, July 20, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel’s family separation law

Netanyahu reveals one of the motivations behind the ‘Jewish Nation-State Law’: to stop Palestinians from ‘exploiting’ family unification procedures to join their families in Israel. Many people have been asking what harm Israel’s “Jewish Nation-State Law” actually causes — what rights it infringes on, and how it changes the current situation in Israel, in which…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man August 6, 2018

A Palestinian child sitting in front of a section of the Separation Wall in the refugee camp of Shuafat, East Jerusalem, December 27, 2011. (Photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Demographic parity is an existential challenge for Israel

Israel can either choose to undo the apartheid reality or face what apartheid breeds — resistance. By Marzuq Al-Halabi A country founded on the idea of segregation between peoples and communities will always have to deal with demographics. A country founded as the result of conquest and colonization of indigenous people and their land will,…

By +972 Magazine March 29, 2018

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops during a protest to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, Nabi Saleh, West Bank, April 21, 2017. (Flash90)

Palestinians play a lead role in the theater of occupation

For 50 years, Israelis and Palestinians have lived separately-together under one rule. Only one group has been able to reap the fruits of democracy. By Hagai El-Ad When Israelis vote, Palestinians do not. But they do get to participate: they can watch. Like the residents of the Palestinian village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa in the occupied West…

By +972 Magazine June 2, 2017

Hundreds fill New York City's Washington Square Park to protest President Trump's decision to ban Muslim refugees from entering the U.S., January 26, 2017. (Gili Getz)

Welcome to the Jewish American dissonance

American Jews view a Muslim ban as a threat to the ideals they cherish, yet they also believe that too many Muslims in Israel is a direct threat to the Jewish people. In early December, just a month after the election of Donald Trump, American alt-right leader Richard Spencer sat down for an interview with Al Jazeera.…

By Edo Konrad January 28, 2017

A man holds an Israeli flag during a march in support of the city of Jerusalem at the Western Wall, Jerusalem's Old City on October 22, 2015, following a wave of attacks by Palestinians. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

It’s 2016 — let’s say goodbye to Zionism once and for all

Zionism today is the fence that encircles the Jewish people, granting it supremacy over the other people of this land. By Noam Rotem The State of Israel is a Zionist state. All of us graduates of the Israeli educational system know this. Israel’s first prime minister said it, Ehud Barak said it, even Prime Minister Benjamin…

By +972 Magazine October 22, 2016

Yitzhak Rabin at Andrews Air Force Base, September 10, 1986. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Rabin’s legacy: A government inclusive of all citizens — not only Jews

People generally associate Rabin’s legacy with the Oslo Accords, for which he was later murdered. Less cited is the fact that Rabin’s revolution was dependent on a one-time collaboration with Arab members of Knesset. Today, just like then, that remains our premier task. By Ron Gerlitz When I was in basic training in the army,…

By +972 Magazine October 31, 2015

Israeli Border Police officers aim assault rifles toward Arab demonstrators in northern Israel during the events of October 2000. (Courtesy of Adalah)

Palestinian citizens will always be enemies in a Jewish state

The Or Commission’s report on the October 2000 events was a symbolic indictment of Israel’s ‘enemy doctrine’ toward its Palestinian citizens. But Israel has not absorbed the lessons of the report, because demands for equality remain anathema to the state’s raison d’être. Twelve years ago, in its report on the events of October 2000, the Or…

By Amjad Iraqi October 7, 2015

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog addresses the annual Herzliya Conference, June 7, 2015. (photo: Erez Harodi/Herzliya Conference)

Who needs the Right when we have Isaac Herzog?

What is the difference between warning about Arab hordes heading to the polls and warning of Arabs being democratically elected to parliament? A few days after Benjamin Netanyahu swept the elections — partly attributed to his election-day racist warnings about Israel’s Palestinian minority — I wrote a piece about his rival, Isaac Herzog, who was…

By Edo Konrad June 8, 2015

Border police officers stand in front of Palestinians as they wait to cross from Qalandiya checkpoint outside Ramallah, West Bank, into Jerusalem to attend the second Friday Ramadan prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, July 26, 2013. (Photo: Activestills.org)

When will Israel stop seeing Palestinians as a ‘demographic threat?’

Israel’s political and social outlook, rooted in its desire to be a ‘Jewish state,’ makes it impossible to view the Palestinians as anything but an existential problem, even those it accepts as citizens. By Amjad Iraqi Last week, Haaretz’s Ofer Aderet reported about the auctioning of a letter written by Israel’s first prime minister, David…

By Amjad Iraqi May 31, 2015

Effi Eitam (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli right-wing politician: ‘Annex territories, grant Palestinians citizenship’

Israeli right-wing politician and former IDF general Efi Eitam has made remarks that few would have expected to hear from him. Former IDF general and politician Efi Eitam is known for his extreme right-wing views and sharp tongue. From calling Arabs a “ticking bomb” to a “cancer,” Eitam has never shown much warmth for his…

By Ami Kaufman August 28, 2014