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An activist from the Lo Nechmadim/Lo Nechmadot movement leads a crowd of social justice protesters on Tel Aviv's Ayalon Highway, July 15, 2012. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

The Mizrahi left at a crossroads

On the verge of closure, a magazine that served as the ideological home of Israel’s Mizrahi left lives another day. But what do its financial woes reveal about the movement’s struggle in Israeli society?

By Ben Reiff December 16, 2021

A road sign for the Israeli settlement of Susya has had the Arabic defaced with spray paint, West Bank, April 6, 2011. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

How Israel erases Arabic from the public landscape

The Israeli government has begun omitting the Arabic name for Jerusalem from its street signs, erasing not only the language from the Israeli consciousness, but Palestinian identity itself. By Umar Al-Ghubari Driving towards Jerusalem on Highway 1, you may notice a relatively new phenomenon taking place on the road signs directing you to the city. Readers…

By Haokets November 22, 2015

IDF soldiers walk through Hebron. (photo: Activestills)

Are IDF intelligence vets helping Uganda hunt down LGBTs?

An investigative report reveals that an Israeli company is involved in supplying spyware to the Ugandan government, which is being used for the persecution of LGBT activists in the country. By Tanya Rubinstein In Uganda today, homosexual relations are illegal. Ugandan legislators are trying to make LGBT activities illegal, including LGBT organizations themselves. Activists are…

By Haokets September 6, 2015

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The Ein Shemer immigrant absorption camp, September 9, 1950. (Photo: Fritz Cohen / GPO)

The Yemenite Baby Affair: What if this was your child?

A well-known Israeli journalist casts doubt on one of the most tragic affairs in the country’s history: the alleged kidnapping of thousands of Yemenite babies between the years 1948 to 1954. Now, one prominent scholar asks why journalists are siding with the state’s narrative, rather than using their power to expose what may be hiding from the…

By Haokets July 12, 2013

The finalists on 'Eyal Golan is Calling You' during the finale, March 5, 2013 (Photo: Ortal Dahan)

Paving the road for true multiculturalism on Israeli television

The ‘Eyal Golan is Calling You’ finale night was a brimming, pronounced and accented Mizrahi broadcast, paving the road for a true multiculturalism and change of viewing habits. Merav Alush Levron on the struggle she partook in to have the finale aired on Channel 2 (and fair play to Eden Abutbul!) By Merav Alush Levron (translated…

By Haokets June 29, 2013

Do you love me (even though I sing like an Arab)?

Sarit Hadad, an Israeli pop singer of Mizrachi extraction, just released a new single. The song, actually a cover of a Lebanse pop hit of the 1970s, is called “Do You Love Me” and it seems that the answer is, “Some of us do, but a lot of us really, really don’t.” For every fan…

By Lisa Goldman August 25, 2010