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Graffiti on the Israeli separation wall dividing the West Bank town of Bethlehem promotes the BDS movement, June 17, 2014. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler)
Why an economic boycott of Israel cannot succeed
And why it might even hinder a political solution. By Yonathan Mizrachi Political movements calling for an economic boycott of Israel are working to advance a model based on the boycott of Apartheid South Africa and the critical role it played in ending white minority rule in that country. The parallel drawn between the economic…
By +972 Magazine July 22, 2016
A religious Israeli man carries an M-16 rifle as he walks near the separation barrier surrounding Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem, West Bank. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Is religion an obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian peace?
Pew publishes surprising new data on religion in Israel, Palestine and the region. We often hear that Israelis and Palestinians are more religious than other national groups, or at the very least are becoming more religious. This, they claim, makes any solution to the conflict more difficult to reach. A new Pew Research Center report…
By Noam Sheizaf December 25, 2015
A Israeli border policeman check the bag of a Palestinian woman as she wait to cross from Qalandiya checkpoint outside Ramallah, West Bank, into Jerusalem to attend the Ramadan Friday Prayer in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, July 26, 2013. Photo by: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org
The economic costs of military rule
Israelis cannot treat the occupation as something that merely affects them in the eyes in the world while their economy keeps paying a heavy price for its continuation. By Shlomo Swirski and Yarom Hoffman Dishon The social-economic cost of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is spoken about far less than the human cost or the price Israel…
By Haokets June 6, 2015
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J14 protesters outside Tel Aviv Stock Exchange July 7, 2012 (Activestills)
The price of turning Israel into another Scandinavia
The reality of the Nordic economic model has little to do with the derisive way it is described by the ‘The Marker’ or ‘The Economist.’ One writer takes apart the right-wing business media’s analysis, revealing the truth behind the successful social democracies. By: Ami Vatury (Translated from Hebrew by Rachel Beitarie) “The Scandinavian model” found…
By Haokets May 1, 2013
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