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MEP Rima Hassan during the European Parliament Plenary, September 2024. (The Left/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Rima Hassan is breaking Europe’s Palestine taboos. France put her on trial

Prosecuted for defending Palestinians’ right to resist, the MEP says Gaza has exposed a ‘complete divorce’ between governments and their publics.

By Liam Syed July 16, 2026

Palestinian patients wait in the grounds of the Red Crescent Hospital to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Crossing with Egypt for medical treatment abroad, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 2, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘I would never do it again’: Inside the struggle to enter and leave Gaza

A trickle of Palestinians have passed through Rafah Crossing since its partial reopening. Those returning face intimidation by Israeli soldiers and the Abu Shabab gang, as well as the confiscation of their belongings.

By Ruwaida Amer February 13, 2026

Workers seen at a vineyard in the Israeli settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, occupied West Bank, September 3, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

The theft at the heart of Israel’s booming wine industry

After seizing Palestinian land, settlers are replanting it with vineyards — then exporting their wine as ‘Made in Israel’ to obscure its origins.

By Marta Vidal and Meriem Laribi January 30, 2026

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Far-right Polish demonstrators take part in the annual National Independence Day march, November 11, 2022. (Matthias Berg/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

It’s not just Europe’s far right enabling Israeli apartheid

An antisemitic Romanian party is hardly Israel’s first fascist ally. But mainstream European parties have been just as complicit in Israel’s abuses.

By Eitay Mack September 4, 2023

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir attends the weekly government conference, held at the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem's Old City, May 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Avoiding an Israeli fascist isn’t the brave move the EU thinks it is

Cancelling an event with Ben Gvir does not make up for a history of European interests that give Israel the green light to carry on with its illegal policies.

By Eitay Mack May 22, 2023

An Israeli soldier seen during an army raid on the Palestinian village of Burqa in the West Bank next to a spray-painted symbol of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s new secret document still fails to tie Palestinian NGOs to ‘terrorism’

+972 and Local Call have obtained a new report sent to foreign diplomats in a fresh attempt to justify outlawing six Palestinian civil society groups. The document, which is full of unsubstantiated claims, has left Europe's leaders unconvinced.

By Oren Ziv and Yuval Abraham January 13, 2022

Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers taking part in a raid on the West Bank city of Hebron, June 18, 2014. (Oren Ziv)

Secret Israeli dossier provides no proof for declaring Palestinian NGOs ‘terrorists’

Israel hoped a classified Shin Bet document would convince European governments to stop funding Palestinian rights groups. +972 and Local Call got hold of the dossier's testimonies — and found no real evidence to justify Israel's claims.

By Yuval Abraham, Oren Ziv and Meron Rapoport November 4, 2021

Israeli settlers from Yitzhar, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, attack Palestinian harvesters and activists, Huwwara, West Bank, October 7, 2020. (Heather Sharona Weiss/Activestills)

Ask the experts: A guide to Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civil society

Our readers had questions about Israel’s designation of six Palestinian human rights groups as ‘terrorists.’ So we invited experts to answer.

By +972 Magazine November 3, 2021

(L to R): The directors of five Palestinian rights groups declared 'terrorist organizations' by Israel: Shawan Jabarin of Al-Haq, Ubai Al-Aboudi of Bisan Center, Fuad Abu Saif of UAWC, Sahar Francis of Addameer, and Khaled Quzmar of DCI-Palestine, in Ramalah, West Bank. Oct. 28, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

The real terror of Palestinian civil society

Israel’s brazen assault on Palestinian NGOs exposes the true goal of its ‘shrinking the conflict' doctrine: to eliminate opposition to apartheid.

By Amjad Iraqi October 28, 2021

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a swearing in ceremony of the new Palestinian government, at the PA's headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, April 13, 2019. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

From vaccines to protests, the Palestinian Authority keeps proving its irrelevance

We Palestinians have grown tired of undemocratic leaders who treat our cause as an administrative problem rather than a struggle for freedom.

By George Zeidan and Miran Khwais June 22, 2021

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers her first State of the EU address at the European Parliament in Brussels. September 16, 2020. (European Parliament/CC-BY-4.0)

Why is the EU helping to label Israel criticism as antisemitism?

By adopting the IHRA definition, the EU is playing into the agendas of Israel advocacy groups that undermine civil society work against the occupation.

By Ilan Baruch April 19, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the press during a visit in Har Homa, East Jerusalem on March 16, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Inside Trump and Netanyahu’s ‘end of season’ settlement bonanza

Amid ongoing political instability in the US, Israel is advancing 'doomsday' settlements in East Jerusalem that would devastate prospects for a future peace deal.

By Daniel Seidemann November 24, 2020

Israeli security forces next to Palestinians protesting Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, Haris, June 26, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

‘Opposing apartheid is the only way this struggle can go’

Tareq Baconi, a Palestinian political analyst, says he is 'pessimistic' about the impact of annexation — but sees hope in the growing anti-colonial nature of the Palestinian struggle.

By Meron Rapoport July 1, 2020