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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lights the 'Hanukkia' on the First night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, December 06, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/GPO)

Netanyahu will do all he can to destroy Jewish-Arab alliances

The alliance between Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Jewish left has historically been viewed as a threat to the rule of the right. That’s why Netanyahu is doing everything he can to undermine it. By Eli Bitan The Israeli right knows exactly how to harm the left: by making its alliance with Palestinian citizens…

By +972 Magazine December 10, 2018

Israelis post anti-Arab racism online every 46 seconds, study finds

A new study shows that Israeli Jews publushed 675,000 racist posts on social media in 2016 — a dangerous increase from 2015, when only 280,000 such posts were published. Every 46 seconds an Israeli Jew publishes a racist or inciting comment against Arabs on Facebook and other social networks, a new study finds. According to the Arab…

By Rami Younis February 13, 2017

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah use virtual reality goggles at an event in Jaffa, July 21, 2016. (Yair Sagi/Pool)

The Israeli Right still hasn’t internalized that Palestinians exist

Arabs are more present than ever in the Israeli public sphere, but attempts to marginalize them are growing at an even faster pace. A new law aimed at pushing Arab representatives out of the political system could wind up changing the rules of the game — in the worst possible way. The Knesset this week…

By Noam Sheizaf July 21, 2016

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Haneen Zoabi is removed by Knesset security on February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

New Israeli law seeks to expel ‘misbehaved’ Arab parliamentarians

Plenty of democratic countries have mechanisms for de-seating elected representatives, but those countries don’t have rich histories of trying to ban politicians of one ethnic group. And their laws weren’t designed to target specific unpopular politicians. On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with the “Expulsion Law” passed by Israel’s Knesset early Wednesday morning. Lots of…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 20, 2016

Balad MK Haneen Zoabi, Febuary 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s national scapegoat

Since members of Israel’s parliament can’t take out their anger about the Turkey reconciliation deal on Netanyahu, they go for the easiest target around — Haneen Zoabi. For all nine years of my childhood in Iran, I never personally encountered anti-Semitism. We lived in a mixed neighborhood, I studied at a Jewish high school along…

By Orly Noy June 30, 2016

Netanyahu and Erdogan. (photos by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org and Wikimedia)

Israel must apologize to its citizens for lying about Gaza flotilla

Now that Israel has signed a reconciliation agreement with Turkey over the Gaza flotilla incident, it must apologize to its own citizens for its lies and distortions. Five takeaways. By Yael Marom 1. A Shayetet 13 combat soldier who was among those to raid the Mavi Marmara in May 2010 gave an interview to Ma’ariv…

By +972 Magazine June 27, 2016

MK Haneen Zoabi addresses the Central Elections Committee during a hearing over her disqualification from Knesset elections, February 12, 2015. (Screenshot)

Who’s allowed to talk about 1930s Germany?

The Palestinian member of Knesset Israelis love to hate and the IDF deputy chief of staff make harsh but nearly identical statements invoking 1930s Germany. The statements are received very differently. IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan raised a small storm when he said at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday evening: “If there’s…

By Orly Noy May 5, 2016

Israel’s Knesset just voted on a very dangerous law for democracy

The draft law, which passed the first of three votes on Monday, would allow the expulsion of Arab MKs from the Knesset. It is one of several recent steps by the Netanyahu government to limit Palestinian political participation. Minutes before leaving for the spring recess Monday night, Israel’s Knesset passed the first reading of a…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man March 29, 2016

Balad head MK Jamal Zahalka (left) and Ta'al head MK Ahmad Tibi, February 11, 2014. (Photo by Activestills.org)

The domino effect of persecuting Arab politicians

The government’s latest attempts to oust Balad from the Knesset are part of an intensifying campaign against Arab political movements, regardless of their different stripes. Three months ago, when the Israeli government outlawed the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, Palestinian citizens of Israel feared that they were witnessing the beginning of an intensified campaign…

By Amjad Iraqi February 14, 2016

Arab journalists and members of Knesset protest outside the Haemek Medical Center for the release of hunger striking Palestinian journalist, Muhammad al-Qiq, January 26, 2016. (photo: Haggai Matar)

Journalists protest for release of hunger striking Palestinian

Arab journalists and members of Knesset protest for the release of Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike for 62 days and is close to death. Approximately 40 journalists, activists, and members of Knesset demonstrated outside the Haemek Medical Center in northern Israel on Wednesday afternoon, calling for the immediate release of…

By Haggai Matar January 26, 2016

Arab women demonstrate outside Al-Aqsa compound. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Meet the outlawed women of Israel’s Islamic Movement

They are journalists, educators, and physicians, who until very recently were dependent on the recently-outlawed Islamic Movement for their living. Now they leave behind a void that cannot be filled. An inside look at the women who play a critical role in Israel’s Palestinian society. By Samah Salaime (translated from Hebrew by Tal Haran) The…

By Samah Salaime January 16, 2016

Suha Mansour.

Hundreds protest murder of Arab woman in central Israel

Hundreds protested in the Arab city of Tira after a 39-year-old woman was murdered by her ex-husband. Arab MKs: The police must take responsibility for ignoring threats against her life. By Yael Marom Hundreds of Arab citizens of Israel, including members of Knesset, local leaders and activists demonstrated last Saturday in the northern Arab city…

By +972 Magazine November 11, 2015

Free Gaza Flotilla (freegaza.org/CC BY SA 2.0)

Netanyahu to Gaza flotilla: Did you mean to sail to Syria?

Netanyahu publishes letter to flotilla participants in which he states there is no blockade, while at the same time declaring that Israel will prevent them from reaching Gaza. UPDATE 7:27 A.M.: The IDF intercepted the Marianne ship early morning Monday and and began towing it to the Ashdod Port. No violence or injuries reported. The…

By Mairav Zonszein June 28, 2015