Haolam Hazeh

Uri Avnery (Yossi Gurvitz)
The Israeli peace activist who crossed enemy lines and shaped generations
Adam Keller, who spent 50 years working alongside Uri Avnery, remembers the man who hoped for a warm embrace between an Israeli and a Palestinian president. By Adam Keller How to sum up in a few words 50 years of political partnership, which was also an intimate friendship, with the person who, I believe, had the most…
By +972 Magazine August 22, 2018
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat being interviewed by Uri Avnery in west Beirut. (Photo by Anat Saragusti, courtesy of Uri Avnery)
Veteran left-wing journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery dies at 94
Avnery, who helped expose some of the darkest chapters in Israeli history and was a fervent opponent of the occupation, inspired generations of Israeli journalists. By +972 Magazine Staff Uri Avnery, one of Israel’s most prominent journalists and a seminal peace activist who was among the first Israelis to advocate for a sovereign Palestinian state, died…
By +972 Magazine August 20, 2018
Israeli police dispersing a march in Damascus Gate, held to mark Land Day, which commemorates the killing of six Palestinians in Sakhnin in 1976, during a protest against land expropriation. (Photo by JC/Activestills.org)
An Israeli policeman’s account of Land Day, 1976
On March 30, 1976, Israeli police repressed protests by Palestinian citizens of Israel against the confiscation of Arab land in the Galilee for use by Jewish citizens. Six protesters were killed, some 100 wounded and hundreds were arrested. Ever since, Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Diaspora mark Land Day on March 30.…
By +972 Magazine March 30, 2014
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