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Members of Kibbutz Amir working in the Papyrus thicket of the Hula Swamps, June 30, 1940. (Kluger Zoltan/GPO)

Why does the JNF still exist?

The forefathers of Zionism never hid their desire to use the Jewish National Fund to dispossess Palestinians. On its 120th anniversary, now is the time to abolish it.

By Yaara Benger Alaluf July 8, 2021

Herzl seen traveling to Palestine, 1898. (Central Zionist Archives)

Under Zionism, Jewish lives have always mattered more

Zionism was never simply about the idea that 'Jewish Lives Matter' — it has always privileged Jewish colonists over indigenous people. Just ask Theodor Herzl.

By Tom Pessah July 8, 2020

A man holds an Israeli flag during a march in support of the city of Jerusalem at the Western Wall, Jerusalem's Old City on October 22, 2015, following a wave of attacks by Palestinians. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

It’s 2016 — let’s say goodbye to Zionism once and for all

Zionism today is the fence that encircles the Jewish people, granting it supremacy over the other people of this land. By Noam Rotem The State of Israel is a Zionist state. All of us graduates of the Israeli educational system know this. Israel’s first prime minister said it, Ehud Barak said it, even Prime Minister Benjamin…

By +972 Magazine October 22, 2016

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A resident of Safed praying. (Photo: GPO)

Have you murdered and also taken possession?

First the moderate Judaism of Mizrahi Jews was trampled and some of them were pushed into an extreme orthodox practice that originated in Europe. Then the Mizrahi Jews were blamed for Ashkenazi-originated orthodoxy, and now MK Ruth Calderon reinvents moderate Judaism as if none of this has ever happened. By Avraham H. Muthada (Translated from…

By Haokets October 19, 2013

Jewish settlers dance during a ceremony inaugurating a new Jewish settlement in Ras al-Amud in May, 2011. (Photo: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

‘Religion and politics’ in Israel: The mythology of Jewish nationalism

The State of Israel has never attempted to build a national identity that would be ‘liberated ’from Jewish ‘religion.’ Instead, it has focused on the construction of a national identity distinct in one critical respect: it is reserved for Jews only. By Yaacov Yadgar One of the more controversial legislative bills being currently pushed forward…

By Haokets August 27, 2013

Im Tirtzu demonstrator, 9 December 2011 (Photo: Dahlia Scheindlin)

Following protest, bank freezes support for anti-democratic group

Im Tirtzu, the nasty little organization that has ushered in some of the more dangerous trends in Israel – policing academic thought, turning Zionism into a sort of raison d’état – has suffered a powerful blow issued with swift and impressive precision by an apparently lethal force: consumers. Bank Leumi, one of the country’s oldest…

By Dahlia Scheindlin December 11, 2011