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Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Makarim Wibisono, 23 July 2014. (UN Photo/Violaine Martin)

How to foil a human rights probe: Keep the investigator out

Makarim Wibisono resigns as UN special rapporteur to the occupied Palestinian territories — because Israel never allowed him to visit Palestine. The UN special rapporteur charged with monitoring and investigating Israeli human rights violations in the occupied territories resigned Monday in protest of Israel’s consistent refusal to give him access to said occupied territories. Refusing access…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 5, 2016

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By Eli Valley Eli Valley is a writer and artist whose work has been published in New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Saveur, Haaretz and elsewhere. He is currently finishing his first novel. Eli’s website is www.EVComics.com and he tweets at @elivalley. Previous work by Eli Valley on +972 Magazine: Google Glass for the Gaza gaze What if Mahmoud was…

By +972 Magazine July 30, 2014

Im Tirzu activist fitting himself into a student protest in TAU for the release of Hana Shalabi (Oren Ziv / Activestills)

Right-wing group seeks to dismantle Israeli NGO dedicated to Palestinian return

Just weeks after it was deemed to have ‘fascist characteristics,’ nationalist group Im Tirtzu tries to shut down Zochrot for allegedly ‘rejecting the existence of the State of Israel.’ Right-wing group Im Tirtzu is attempting to shut down Zochrot, a non-profit organization that dedicates itself to raising awareness of the Nakba in Israeli society, and working…

By Edo Konrad September 24, 2013

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Im Tirzu founder Ronen Shoval (photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Jerusalem Court: Okay to call Im Tirtzu a ‘fascist group’

A verdict by the Jerusalem District Court finds that recognizing ‘certain lines of resemblance’ to fascism in the ideology or activities of the right-wing movement can be seen as ‘truthful.’ The verdict is a major blow to Im Tirtzu’s efforts to portray itself as a mainstream, grassroots movement. The extreme-right group Im Tirtzu lost a…

By Noam Sheizaf September 8, 2013

IDF White Phosphorus bomb over Gaza during operation Cast Lead, December 2008 (Image from Al Jazeera broadcast)

Israel gives up white phosphorus, because ‘it doesn’t photograph well’

By Idan Landau A certain air of nostalgia dominated Maariv’s headline last Thursday: “Due to criticism in the world, IDF parts ways with white phosphorus”: just like the old Galil assault rifle and the old two-way radios that generations of soldiers grew familiar with. A couple of years ago we learned the IDF was giving…

By +972 Magazine April 28, 2013

Gaza from a distance, January 2009 (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

IDF general: Goldstone ‘nothing’ compared to next Lebanon clash

Israelis are ever so sensitive to threats from “the other side,” be it Palestinian militant groups or Iran’s leaders. It’s understandable; nobody likes vows to wipe his or her country off the map. Yet for some reason, the same people become tone-deaf when it’s Israel that threatens its neighbors. A well-known example is Israel’s current…

By Noam Sheizaf July 6, 2012

Palestinian right to fight occupation not only moral, but legal as well

I agree wholeheartedly with Noam Sheizaf’s recent post about the Palestinians’ moral right to resist. But I would like to add that the moral right to resist is also the foundation of the Palestinians’ legal right to resist the illegal Israeli occupation. Considered within that framework, Israel’s suppression of Palestinian protest and resistance becomes even…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat December 22, 2011

Judge Goldstone presides: Apartheid vs. State of Israel

Racked by guilt for having exposed a modicum of the truth regarding Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians, Judge Richard Goldstone does an about-face and becomes a spokesperson for the Israeli right wing. Is Goldstone the new Benny Morris? By Omar Rahman and Abir Kopty Richard Goldstone could give those guys at AIPAC a run for…

By Omar H. Rahman November 3, 2011

No clarification about the Goldstone report will wipe away the stain of Cast Lead

Goldstone clarifications: Just another distraction

Shortly after the Goldstone Report was published, a wealthy American Jewish woman at a New York cocktail event leaned in to tell me how horrible the report is. Waving her jeweled hands, she keened: “We’re living in a nightmare!” Israeli society seemed to feel the same. The Goldstone Report has been viewed as a turning…

By Dahlia Scheindlin April 3, 2011

Goldstone “apology” won’t make us stop talking of occupation

Some initial thoughts regarding Judge Richard Goldstone’s op-ed, in which he retracted some of the allegations against Israel made in his report A strange combination of thrill and anger seems to be the immediate response to Judge Goldstone’s surprising op-ed on the Washington post today. Goldstone wrote that while Israel was investigating the allegations of…

By Noam Sheizaf April 2, 2011

Israeli minister, media perpetuate lie about Goldstone’s Gaza report

Eli Yishai, Israel’s lethally incompetent Interior Minister, is outraged that Judge Richard Goldstone, who headed the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza war, has not condemned attacks on Israeli civilians. According to Ynet, Yishai sent a letter to Goldstone in which he “demanded of Goldstone to condemn the firing from Gaza as he did with…

By Roi Maor March 24, 2011

The Goldstone Report: more important than you think

With each passing day, the publication of the Goldstone Report seems like a key event in shaping the political and diplomatic trends that currently dominate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A new book – to which I contributed an article dealing with the Israeli reaction to the report – takes a fresh look at the findings and…

By Noam Sheizaf January 27, 2011

Did Sarah Palin borrow the term ‘blood libel’ from Israeli discourse?

Sarah Palin, an American conservative celebrity, has used the term ‘blood libel’ to tar critics of her incendiary rhetoric, following a deadly shooting in the US. Did she borrow the phrase from Israeli discourse? Here, it stands for the idea that any accusation against Israel must be a lie. To admit any wrong is to…

By Roi Maor January 15, 2011