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A report about the shooting at the Israeli Embassy in Paraguay, in the local newspaper La Tarde, May 4, 1970.

The Paraguay Scheme: Israel’s secret plan to deport Gazans in the ‘70s

A new podcast series lifts the veil on the Mossad’s failed attempt to expel 60,000 Palestinians soon after occupying the Gaza Strip. Almost six decades later, Israel’s methods and objectives remain eerily similar.

By Ben Reiff March 26, 2026

An officer from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), one of the primary arms of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seen during an operation in Minneapolis, January 6, 2026. (Tia Dufour/U.S. Department of Homeland Security Photo)

ICE operations increasingly resemble Israeli occupation. That’s no coincidence

U.S. immigration enforcement has long cultivated ties with Israel. Now it adapts algorithmic surveillance tactics from Gaza for use on American streets.

By Sophia Goodfriend February 12, 2026

Mohammed Kanaan (wearing the red keffiyeh) takes a selfie with deported Palestinian men who had been released at a checkpoint near the town of Ni’lin, including Maher Awad, 25, from Michigan (foreground), and Sameer Zeidan, 47, from Louisiana, (background), occupied West Bank, Jan. 21, 2026. (Courtesy)

U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel

Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.

By Ghousoon Bisharat and Ben Reiff February 5, 2026

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A pro-Palestine demonstration in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin, October 28, 2023.

Germany moves to deport four foreign residents for pro-Palestine activism

The four slated for deportation have not been convicted of any crime but are alleged to have participated in protests against Israel's assault on Gaza.

By Hanno Hauenstein April 1, 2025

An Israeli soldier stops and questions international activists in the West Bank village of At-Tuwani, October 20, 2024. (Avishay Mohar/ActiveStills)

The Israeli task force deporting foreign activists from the West Bank

Solidarity volunteers describe threatening interrogations, false charges, and swift expulsion orders by a new police unit established by Ben Gvir.

By Oren Ziv October 31, 2024

Palestinians hold a vigil in memory of Shireen Abu Akleh in Gaza City, May 11, 2022. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills)

What 2022 taught Palestinians

The past year proved that Israel's impunity on the international stage knows no bounds. But looking ahead to 2023, there are still reasons to be hopeful.

By George Zeidan January 1, 2023

Salah Hammouri speaks to the press and supporters at Paris Charles de Galle Airport, France, after having been exiled by Israel, December 18, 2022. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Exile of Palestinian lawyer reignites struggle over France’s Israel policy

Israel's expulsion of Salah Hammouri has energized France's Palestine solidarity movement — but backlash is spurring antisemitism smears.

By Deborah Leter December 29, 2022

Salah Hammouri's mother (left), alongside Attorney Leah Tsemel (center) and Munir Nuseibeh (right), holds up a photo of him at an emergency press conference in Jerusalem, December 2, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Expulsion of Palestinian Jerusalemite tests the waters for future deportations

Legal experts fear Israel's deportation of Salah Hammouri could set a precedent for similar moves against Palestinians holding foreign citizenship.

By Oren Ziv December 7, 2022

Illustrative photo of passport control at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport. (Photo by Rakoon)

Border agents tell Jewish American ‘the IDF doesn’t want you in Israel’

Julie Weinberg-Connors, who is in the process of making ‘aliya,’ or immigrating to Israel as a Jew under the Law of Return, was told that they were being deported because of the army’s objections over their visits to the West Bank. They were eventually let in. Jewish-American Julie Weinberg-Connors was denied entry to Israel Wednesday…

By Henriette Chacar September 12, 2018

Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch (Courtesy of Omar Shakir).

Human Rights Watch sues Israel in first challenge to anti-boycott travel ban

This is the first application of the 2017 amendment to Israel’s entry law in which a foreign national already living and working in Israel has had their work permit revoked for alleged support for BDS. Human Rights Watch and its Israel and Palestine director, U.S. citizen Omar Shakir, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Israeli government following the Interior Ministry’s decision…

By Mairav Zonszein May 16, 2018

African asylum seekers jailed in the Holot detention center protest behind the prison's fence, February 17, 2014. (Photo by Activestills.org)

In lead-up to mass deportation, Israel closes Holot detention facility

For the past four years, asylum seekers and their supporters have demanded that the Holot detention center be shut down. Now it’s finally happening, but not at all how they envisioned. The Israeli government shut down the Holot detention facility, the open-air, desert detention facility built for African asylum seekers, on Wednesday after four years…

By Joshua Leifer March 15, 2018

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with residents of South Tel Aviv, during a tour in the neighborhood, August 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

What do south Tel Aviv’s residents really think about asylum seekers?

The media tends to stereotype the Mizrahi residents of south Tel Aviv as angry xenophobes whose problems will be solved with the deportation of African asylum seekers from their neighborhoods. But the truth is far more complicated.

By Social TV February 8, 2018

Protesters outside of the president's residence in Jerusalem on Monday night, January 22, 2018. (Yael Marom)

Asylum seekers to Israel’s president: ‘Look us in the eyes’

Israel plans to begin deporting tens of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in the coming months. Hundreds gather outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, hoping to tell him their stories. Several hundred asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan demonstrated in front of Israeli President Rivlin’s official residence in Jerusalem Monday night, calling on…

By Yali Marom January 23, 2018