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Tamer Nafar (courtesy of the author)

What can Palestinian artists do in the face of our slaughter?

I used to believe art could change the world. Now it feels like an airplane black box: it won’t navigate the landing, it can only document the crash.

By Tamer Nafar July 11, 2024

Members of the Turkish media seen during clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians after Friday prayers in East Jerusalem, December 15, 2023. [Nati Shohat/Flash90]

Israeli military censor bans highest number of articles in over a decade

The sharp rise in media censorship in 2023 comes as the Israeli government further undermines press freedoms, especially amid the Gaza war.

By Haggai Matar May 20, 2024

Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian during her court proceeding in Jerusalem, April 19, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

The orchestrated persecution of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions.

By Shahrazad Odeh April 30, 2024

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Empty seats in Haifa's Sard Theater. (Courtesy)

Palestinian artists stifled as Israel ‘weaponizes fear and fame’

Death threats, arrests, and self-censorship are creating a repressive environment for Palestinian cultural figures and institutions in Israel.

By Mariam Farah April 23, 2024

Students seen at the "Mount Scopus" campus at Hebrew University on the first day of the opening of the university year, October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hebrew University’s Faculty of Repressive Science

The suspension of Palestinian professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian empties all meaning from the university’s proclaimed values of pluralism and equality.

By Orly Noy March 23, 2024

A Palestine solidarity demonstration in the Potsdamer Platz area, Berlin, October 15, 2023. The police suppressed the demonstration shortly after authorizing it.

The spiraling absurdity of Germany’s pro-Israel fanaticism

As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state's liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves.

By Michael Sappir March 21, 2024

Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham holding the Best Documentary Award for their film 'No Other Land' at the Berlinale film festival, February 24, 2024 (Ali Ghandtschi/Berlinale 2024)

+972 and Local Call stand with colleagues Basel and Yuval

The attacks on Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham illustrate the repressive forces working to silence those who speak hard truths about Israeli apartheid.

By +972 Magazine February 28, 2024

Meir Baruchin outside his home in Jerusalem. (Oren Ziv)

How Israel turned a teacher into a traitor

Social media posts about Oct. 7 got him fired, arrested, and thrown in jail. Now, Meir Baruchin faces a fight to return to a school that wants him gone.

By Oren Ziv February 9, 2024

Israeli activists protest against the arrest of members of the Arab High Follow-Up Committee earlier in the day, Tel Aviv District Police Station, November 9, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Israeli police repressing anti-war protests with ‘iron fist,’ say activists

Since October 7, Israel's police have systematically banned, restricted, and attacked protests against the army's assault on Gaza, instilling a sense of fear among Jewish and Palestinian citizens alike.

By Oren Ziv January 24, 2024

Palestinians attend a protest condemning the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh by Israeli forces during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Haifa, May 11, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens

Administrative detention, long weaponized against Palestinians under occupation, is gradually being directed toward those with citizenship too.

By Baker Zoubi January 8, 2024

Doctors and nurses clean up after conducting open-heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, August 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

A Palestinian student briefly deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit

Police arrested a West Bank medical student at an Israeli hospital and accused her of 'blocking' friends online. Weeks later, she was barred from returning.

By Oren Ziv December 19, 2023

Palestinian and left-wing student activists hold a memorial service during a rally marking the Nakba anniversary at Tel Aviv University, May 14, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israeli academia joins the crackdown on dissent

On Israeli campuses, Palestinian and left-wing Jewish students and faculty have been suspended, arrested, and intimidated for their views since Oct. 7

By Mariam Farah December 3, 2023

Israeli police guard while Palestinians arrive to Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, at the Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, October 13, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Israel’s ‘thought police’ law ramps up dangers for Palestinian social media users

Rights advocates warn the draconian law will enable unprecedented surveillance, raising Palestinian fears of arrest for their online activity.

By Sophia Goodfriend November 24, 2023