divide and conquer

Queen's funeral cortege borne on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy carrying Queen Elizabeth II to Westminster Abbey, London, United Kingdom, September 19, 2022. (UK Government/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The Queen is dead, but her colonial legacy lives on in Israel-Palestine

While the British Mandate ended 74 years ago, its legacy of racial hierarchy, divide and rule, and emergency regulations is still visible in Israeli policy.

By Yael Berda September 20, 2022

Palestinian youths force open a gate in the Israeli separation wall, built on land belonging to the village of Bil’in, which leads to the Israeli settlement of Modi’in Ilit, also built on village land, February 17, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

How Palestinians can reverse Israel’s divide and conquer tactics

Oslo allowed Israel to reduce Palestinians to disparate fragments, each with their own challenge to merely survive. It’s time to reset that reality and view the Palestinians for what they are — physically fragmented, politically divided, but a whole people. By Sam Bahour Most veteran observers, including Israeli security authorities and Palestinian leadership, were dumbfounded…

By +972 Magazine September 5, 2017

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Druze community, on the occasion of the Nabi Shueib holiday, at the home of Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muafak Tareef in Julis and at the Yad LeBanim building in Daliyat al-Karmel, April 25, 2013. (Moshe Milner/GPO, C.C. 2.0)

Israel’s Druze reject Netanyahu’s divide-and-conquer policies

A newly-approved Druze town is slated to be built atop destroyed Palestinian villages. But the Druze community refuses to let the government sow discord among Israel’s ethnic minorities under the guise of development. With great fanfare, the Prime Minister’s Office released a press statement Tuesday announcing that the National Planning Council had approved the prime minister’s initiative…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth January 6, 2016

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Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, 2011. (photo: Mati Milstein)

Black labor: How a white elite uses black soldiers to enforce its will

A new photo project focuses on the soldiers of Israel’s Border Police, the main military unit used to enforce the occupation of the Palestinians. Shot in various locations across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, ‘Black Labor’ looks at the points of impact where Israel’s elite pits black Jews against Palestinians. Photos by Mati Milstein, text…

By Haokets September 25, 2015